The Cultured Thug

"Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron's ideal: the cultured thug." — Jonathan Bowden

The Cultured Thug brings together eight speeches and four reviews by the legendary British New Right intellectual Jonathan Bowden. These works cover a wide array of topics, offering insights into:

• British sculpture
• William Shakespeare
• Edward Elgar
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Robinson Jeffers
• George Orwell
• The Soviet Gulag
• Feminism
• Aeschylus
• George Steiner
• Murnau's Nosferatu
• Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ

The Cultured Thug serves as an excellent introduction to both the astonishing breadth and the unifying threads of Bowden's intellectual interests.

Read it, and you'll find yourself becoming a bit more cultured and a bit more courageous at the same time.