{{short description|American white supremacist author}}
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{{Infobox person
Birth Name: Samuel Jared Taylor <br>
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Birth Date: 1951-09-15 <br>
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Birth Place: Kobe, Japan <br>
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Occupation: Editor of American Renaissance (magazine) <br>
| birth_name = Samuel Jared Taylor
Occupation: President of the New Century Foundation <br>
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Occupation: Author <br>
| birth_place = [[Kobe]], Japan
Focus: United States of America <br>
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Website: https://www.amren.com/ <br>
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| occupation = [[Editing|Editor]] of [[American Renaissance (magazine)|''American Renaissance'']]
| title = President of the [[New Century Foundation]]
| known_for = {{flatlist|Belief in [[scientific racism]]
* Advocacy for voluntary [[racial segregation]]
}}
| movement = [[White supremacy]]
| partner = Evelyn Rich<ref>{{cite web|last=Rich |first=Evelyn |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/05/04/setting-record-straight-longtime-partner-jared-taylor-addresses-white-nationalist-criticism |title=Setting the Record Straight: Longtime Partner of Jared Taylor Addresses White Nationalist Criticism |publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|date=May 4, 2016}}</ref>
| children = 2 daughters
| education = [[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Sciences Po]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])
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}}
'''Samuel Jared Taylor''' (born September 15, 1951) is an American [[white supremacist]]<ref name=supremacist /> and editor of [[American Renaissance (magazine)|''American Renaissance'']], an online magazine espousing such opinions, which was founded by Taylor in 1990.
He is also the president of ''American Renaissance''{{'}}s parent organization, [[New Century Foundation]], through which many of his books have been published. He is a former member of the advisory board of ''[[The Occidental Quarterly]]'' and a former director of the [[National Policy Institute]], a Virginia-based white nationalist think tank.<ref name="thelaw">{{cite book |title=The Law Into Their Own Hands: Immigration and the Politics of Exceptionalism |publisher=University of Arizona Press |author=Doty, Roxanne Lynn |year=2009 |page=61 |isbn=978-0816527717}}</ref> He is also a board member and spokesperson of the [[Council of Conservative Citizens]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/3930993/dylann-roof-council-of-conservative-citizens-charleston/|title=Inside the White Supremacist Group that Influenced Charleston Shooting Suspect|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/23/us/white-supremacist-group-dylann-roof/|title=White supremacist group stands by racist ideology|last1=Devine|first1=Curt|last2=Griffin |first2=Drew|last3=Bronstein|first3=Scott|date=24 June 2015|publisher=CNN Investigations|access-date=15 July 2015}}</ref>
'''Samuel Jared Taylor''' (born September 15, 1951) is an American White nationalist and editor of American Renaissance, an online pro-White magazine, which was founded by Taylor in October 1990.
Taylor and many of his affiliated organizations are accused of promoting [[racist]] ideologies by civil rights groups, news media, and academics studying racism in the United States.<ref name="Roddy" /><ref name="splc2">[http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-renaissance American Renaissance] Southern Poverty Law Center</ref><ref name="Sussman2014" /><ref name="Atkins2011pp59-60" />
He is also the president of ''American Renaissance''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s parent organization, New Century Foundation, through which many of his books have been published. He is a former member of the advisory board of ''The Occidental Quarterly'' and a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Virginia-based White nationalist think tank. He is also a board member and spokesperson of the Council of Conservative Citizens.
== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==
Taylor was born on September 15, 1951, to Christian [[missionary]] parents from [[Virginia]] in [[Kobe]], Japan.<ref name="Swain2003p87" />{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=137}} He lived in Japan until he was 16 years old and attended Japanese schools up to the age of 12, becoming fluent in [[Japanese language|Japanese]].<ref name="Swain2003p87">{{Harvnb|Swain|Nieli|2003|p=87}}</ref>
Taylor was born on September 15, 1951, to Christian missionary parents from Virginia in Kobe, Japan. He lived in Japan until he was 16 years old and attended Japanese schools up to the age of 12, becoming fluent in Japanese.
He attended [[Yale University]], where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1973.{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=137}} Taylor then spent three years in France and received a Master of Arts degree in international economics at [[Sciences Po]] in 1978.<ref>{{harvnb|Nieli|2019|p=137}}. See the [https://www.sciences-po.asso.fr/profil/jared.taylor78_1 alumni directory] of the institution for the date.</ref> During a period that interrupted his undergraduate and later graduate college years, he worked and traveled extensively in [[West Africa]], improving his French in the [[African French|Francophone regions]] of the continent.<ref name="Swain2003p87" />{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=137}} Taylor is fluent in French, Japanese, and English.{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=137}}
He attended Yale University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1973. Taylor then spent three years in France and received a Master of Arts degree in international economics at Sciences Po in 1978. During a period that interrupted his undergraduate and later graduate college years, he worked and traveled extensively in West Africa, improving his French in the African French of the continent. Taylor is fluent in French, Japanese, and English.
==Career==
==Career==
Taylor worked as an international lending officer for the [[Manufacturers Hanover Corporation]] from 1978 to 1981, and as West Coast editor of ''[[PC Magazine]]'' from 1983 to 1988.<ref name="Atkins2011pp59-60">{{Harvnb|Atkins|2011|pp=59–60}}</ref>{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=137}} He has also taught Japanese at the [[Harvard Summer School]], and worked as a courtroom translator.<ref name="adl1">{{cite web|title=Jared Taylor/American Renaissance|url=http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/jared_taylor/background.html?LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=taylor|publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818042017/http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/jared_taylor/background.html?LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=taylor|archive-date=August 18, 2016|access-date=2017-07-04}}</ref>
Taylor worked as an international lending officer for the ''Manufacturers Hanover Corporation'' from 1978 to 1981, and as West Coast editor of ''PC Magazine'' from 1983 to 1988. He has also taught Japanese at the ''Harvard Summer School'', and worked as a courtroom translator.
In the 1980s, at the time of the country's strong economic growth, Taylor was viewed as a "Japan expert" in the mainstream media. In 1983 he published a well-received book on Japanese culture and business customs entitled ''Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle''.<ref>{{harvnb|Nieli|2019|p=141|ps=: "In the 1980s, Jared Taylor became known as a "Japan expert" at a time when much of the world was focused on the extraordinary rise of Japan to economic dominance in Asia. Taylor published at this time Shadows of the Rising Sun, a widely acclaimed book on Japanese culture, business practices, and folkways."}}</ref> While critical of certain aspects of Japanese culture, Taylor argued that Japanese society was more successful in solving social issues than the West, with lower crime rates and a similar or higher standard of living.{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=141}}
In the 1980s, at the time of the country's strong economic growth, Taylor was viewed as a "Japan expert" in the mainstream media. In 1983 he published a well-received book on Japanese culture and business customs entitled ''Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle''. While critical of certain aspects of Japanese culture, Taylor argued that Japanese society was more successful in solving social issues than the West, with lower crime rates and a similar or higher standard of living.
Sometime in his early thirties, Taylor reassessed the [[Liberalism in the United States|liberal]] and [[cosmopolitanism|cosmopolitan]] viewpoint commonly professed in his working environment, which he had himself shared until then.{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=137}} He became deeply convinced that human beings are tribal in nature and feelings, and that they differ in talent, temperament and capacity.{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=138}} In the mid-1980s, he developed an interest in the emerging fields of [[evolutionary biology]] and [[evolutionary psychology]], especially in the controversial works of [[Richard Lynn]], [[J. Philippe Rushton]] and [[Helmuth Nyborg]],{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=142}} and came to believe that differences between human beings are largely of genetic origin, and therefore quasi-immutable.{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=138}} All the social miracles of Japan, Taylor averred by 1991 under the [[pen name]] Steven Howell, were at least partly a result of Japan's racial and cultural homogeneity.<ref>{{harvnb|Nieli|2019|p=141}} See Howell, Steven (October 1991). "The Case of Japan (Part II)". ''American Renaissance'': "Japanese society is a perfect example of the advantages of ethnic homogeneity."</ref>
Sometime in his early thirties, Jared reassessed the liberal and cosmopolitan viewpoint commonly professed in his working environment, which he had himself shared until then. He became deeply convinced that human beings are tribal in nature and feelings, and that they differ in talent, temperament and capacity. In the mid-1980s, he developed an interest in the emerging fields of evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, especially in the controversial works of [[Richard Lynn]], [[J. Philippe Rushton]] and [[Helmuth Nyborg]], and came to believe that differences between human beings are largely of genetic origin, and therefore quasi-immutable. All the social miracles of Japan, Taylor averred by 1991 under the pen name Steven Howell, were at least partly a result of Japan's racial and cultural homogeneity.
In November 1990, he founded and published the first issue of ''[[American Renaissance (magazine)|American Renaissance]]'', a [[white supremacist]]<ref name="supremacist" /> subscription-based monthly newsletter.{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=138}} He created the [[New Century Foundation]] in 1994 to assist with the running of ''American Renaissance''.<ref name="zeskind">{{cite book|author=Leonard Zeskind|url=https://archive.org/details/bloodpoliticshis0000zesk|title=Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream|date=May 12, 2009|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-1-4299-5933-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/bloodpoliticshis0000zesk/page/370 370]|access-date=November 28, 2015|url-access=registration}}</ref> Many of the early articles were written by Taylor himself and were intended to put white racial advocacy on a higher intellectual level than the traditional [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansman]]'s or white [[skinhead]]'s discourse that dominated the media at that time.{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=139}} The journal ceased its print publication in 2012 to focus on a daily [[Online magazine|webzine]] format.{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=138}}
In October 1990, Jared founded [[American Renaissance]] a physical monthly newsletter, that became online articles in January 2012. In 1994 he created [[New Century Foundation]] as the parent company of [[American Renaissance]] to assist with running American Renaissance.
In 1992, Taylor published a book titled ''Paved with Good Intentions'' in which he criticizes what he deems the unwise welfare politics that contributed to the economic situation of the African-American underclass. Unlike many of his ''American Renaissance'' articles, the work avoids genetic-based reasoning due to fears of not being able to get it published had he talked about IQ differences.<ref>{{harvnb|Nieli|2019|p=144}}; {{harvnb|Swain|Nieli|2003|pp=94–95}}.</ref> In 1994, he was called by the defense team in a [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]] black-on-black murder trial, to give expert testimony on the race-related aspects of the case.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940415&slug=1905623|title=Business - 'Urban Survival Syndrome' Gets Blame In Slayings -- Is Defense Realistic, Or Does It Reinforce A Racial Stereotype? - Seattle Times Newspaper|website=community.seattletimes.nwsource.com}}</ref> Prior to testifying in the trial, Taylor, presented as a "[[Race relations|race-relations]] expert and author" by the ''[[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]'', called young black men "the most dangerous people in America" and added "This must be taken into consideration in judging whether or not it was realistic for [the defendant] to think this was a kill-or-be-killed situation."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Montgomery|first1=Lori|date=26 October 1994|title='Urban Survival' Rules at Issue in Trial|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/10/26/urban-survival-rules-at-issue-in-trial/d1a78564-773e-45a9-a406-a5aa3b0a0b9f/|via=washingtonpost.com}}</ref>
In 1992, Jared published a book titled ''Paved with Good Intentions'' in which he criticizes what he deems the unwise welfare politics that contributed to the economic situation of the African-American underclass. Unlike many of his ''American Renaissance'' articles, the work avoids genetic-based reasoning due to fears of not being able to get it published had he talked about IQ differences. In 1994, he was called by the defense team in a Fort Worth, Texas black-on-black murder trial, to give expert testimony on the race-related aspects of the case.
==Views==
==Views==
Taylor has been described as a [[White nationalism|white nationalist]],<ref>
Jared Taylor rejects the label of ''racist'' and sees himself as a "racialist who believes in race-realism". He does not see himself as a White supremacist, but rather sees himself as a White advocate. He believes there are racial differences in intelligence among the various racial groups of the world. He welcomes Jews into his organization and view American Jews as potential allies.
*[[Leonard Zeskind]], ''Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream'' (Farrar, Straud and Giroux, 2009), p. 370 & 427: "Taylor began his public foray into the white nationalist arena with a newsletter he edited called ''American Renaissance''... Taylor, by eschewing conspiracy mongering and what they called 'paramilitary infantilism,' gave white nationalism greater potential access to the conservative mainstream."
*Roxanne Lynn Doty, ''The Law Into Their Own Hands: Immigration and the Politics of Exceptionalism'' (University of Arizona Press, 2009), p. 61: "One of the more prominent members of the new white nationalism is Jared Taylor, editor of ''American Renaissance''."
*[[Carol M. Swain]], ''The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration'' ([[Cambridge University Press]], 2002), p. 121: "White nationalist Jared Taylor had this to say..."
*[[Eric J. Sundquist]], ''King's Dream'' (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 79: "the white nationalist Jared Taylor"</ref> [[White supremacy|white supremacist]], and [[racism|racist]] by civil rights groups, news media, academics studying racism in the US, and others.<ref name="Roddy"/><ref name=splc2 /><ref name="Sussman2014">{{cite book|author=Robert W. Sussman|title=The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yf6EBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA316|date=6 October 2014|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-41731-1|page=316}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/12/why-this-leading-white-nationalist-is-urging-iowa-voters-to-back-donald-trump/|title= Hear a white nationalist's robocall urging Iowa voters to back Trump|newspaper= Washington Post|author= Peter Holley |date= 2016-01-12|access-date= 2016-02-08}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{cite news
| title = 'Alt-right' groups will 'revolt' if Trump shuns white supremacy, leaders say
| newspaper = [[The Guardian]]
| date = 2016-12-27
| access-date = 2017-08-08
| last1 = Carroll
| first1 = Rory
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/11/jared_taylor_richard_spencer_and_american_white_supremacists_in_europe_why.html|title= White Flight|work= Slate.com|author= Martin Gelin|date= 2014-11-13|access-date= 2016-02-08}}</ref> Taylor has "strenuously rejected"<ref name="Swain2003p87"/> being called a racist, and maintains that he is instead a "racialist who believes in race-realism."<ref>{{Harvnb|Atkins|2011|p=59}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/far-right-flocks-to-russia-to-berate-the-west-1427059613|title=Far-Right Flocks to Russia to Berate the West|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|first=Alan|last=Cullison}}</ref> He has also disputed the white supremacist label, preferring to describe himself as a "white advocate",<ref name="Atkins2011">{{cite book|author=Stephen E Atkins|title=Encyclopedia of Right-Wing Extremism In Modern American History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wf6-K_uVs8QC&pg=PA59|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-351-4|page=59|quote=Taylor is the editor of the white supremacist journal ''American Renaissance''. Taylor claims not to be a white supremacist ... Remarks by Taylor indicate his racist stance}}</ref> and contends that his views on nationality and race are "moderate, commonsensical, and fully consistent with the views of most of the great statesmen and presidents of America's past".<ref name="Swain2003p87"/>
News coverage of Taylor has associated him with the [[alt-right]].<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Financial Times]]|date=August 28, 2016|title='Alt-right' movement makes mark on US presidential election|url=https://www.ft.com/content/e148d930-6cdb-11e6-9ac1-1055824ca907}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=[[Yahoo News]]|title=Alt-right exuberant after Trump victory|date=November 12, 2016|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/alt-right-exuberant-after-trump-victory-100038175.html}}</ref>
===Race===
[[File:TaylorandJackson.jpg|thumb|upright|Jared Taylor and [[Jesse Jackson]]]]
Taylor is a proponent of [[scientific racism]] and voluntary [[racial segregation]].<ref name="Sussman2014" /><ref name="wilson_2017">{{cite news|last1=Wilson|first1=Jason|title='The races are not equal': meet the alt-right leader in Clinton's campaign ad|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/26/jared-taylor-alt-right-clinton-trump|access-date=12 August 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|date=26 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="wnyc2017">{{cite news|title=What This White Separatist Expects From the Trump Administration|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/what-white-separatist-expects-trump-administration/|access-date=13 August 2017|agency=On the Media|publisher=WNYC|date=2016-11-18}}</ref><ref name="adl_jt">{{cite web|title=Jared Taylor: Academic Racist|url=https://www.adl.org/news/article/jared-taylor-academic-racist|website=adl.org|publisher=The Anti-Defamation League|access-date=12 August 2017}}</ref> Taylor also asserts that there are [[race and intelligence controversy|racial differences in intelligence]] among the various ethno-racial groups across the world.<ref name="Sussman">{{Cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2014/10/11/americas_virulent_racists_the_sick_ideas_and_perverted_science_of_the_american_renaissance_foundation/ |title=America's virulent racists: The sick ideas and perverted "science" of the American Renaissance Foundation |last=Sussman |first=Robert |date=October 14, 2014 |website=Salon}}</ref> Taylor argues that Blacks are generally less intelligent than Hispanics, while Hispanics are generally less intelligent than whites, and whites are generally less intelligent than East Asians: "I think Asians are objectively superior to Whites by just about any measure that you can come up with in terms of what are the ingredients for a successful society. This doesn't mean that I want America to become Asian. I think every people has a right to be itself, and this becomes clear whether we're talking about [[Western New Guinea|Irian Jaya]] or [[Tibet]], for that matter".<ref>{{Harvnb|Swain|Nieli|2003|p=102}}</ref>{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=143}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/jared-taylor-extremism-in-america.pdf |title=Jared Taylor - American Renaissance |date=2013 |website=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref>
Taylor describes himself as an advocate for white interests.<ref>{{Harvnb|Swain|Nieli|2003|pp=87–88}}.</ref> He states that his publication, ''American Renaissance'', was founded to provide a voice for such concerns, and argues that its work is analogous to other groups that advocate for ethnic or racial interests.<ref>{{Harvnb|Swain|Nieli|2003|p=88}}.</ref> ''American Renaissance'', however, has been described as a white supremacist publication and a "forum for writers disparaging the abilities of minorities".<ref>{{Harvnb|Atkins|2011|p=60}}</ref> In the journal in 2005, he stated, "Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization{{snd}} any kind of civilization{{snd}} disappears."<ref>{{cite web
}}</ref> A 2005 feature in the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'' described Taylor as "a racist in the guise of expert".<ref name="Roddy">"[http://www.post-gazette.com/life/dennis-roddy/2005/01/23/Jared-Taylor-a-racist-in-the-guise-of-expert/stories/200501230176 Jared Taylor, a Racist in the Guise of 'Expert']". Dennis Roddy. ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''. January 23, 2005.</ref>
Taylor presents his [[Racial segregation|segregationist]] project as based on [[civil liberties]] and [[freedom of association]], and has described [[Racial segregation in the United States|government-mandated segregation]] as morally unjust. He believes that all [[anti-discrimination law]]s "from the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] onward" are an unacceptable expansion of federal power. Taylor also opposes [[Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States|anti-miscegenation laws]] as impinging on the freedom of association of private citizens.<ref>{{harvnb|Nieli|2019|pp=145–146}}.</ref>
Taylor believes that the multi-racial American society is "doomed to failure", and that non-white groups should not constitute a significant part of the American population, especially Hispanics, Africans, Afro-Caribbeans and Middle Easterners, although he also includes Northern Asians, whom he holds in high regard.{{Sfn|Nieli|2019|p=148}} He thus supports immigration policies that would favor white immigrants over other groups. Taylor has said: "Whites deserve a homeland," and when questioned about the US immigration laws passed in 1965, under the [[Hart-Celler Act]], said that "Whites are making a terrible mistake by setting in motion forces that will reduce them to a minority."<ref>Jared Taylor, in an interview with ABC News' Amna Nawaz, on 26 March 2017; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z90KJWk3dPY Jared Taylor, ABC Interview 2017].</ref>
Taylor supports the [[white genocide conspiracy theory]],{{Sfn|Nieli|2019|p=147|ps=: "The [civil rights movement], he holds, combine fantasy, wishful thinking, and in some cases the cold, self-interested logic of nonwhite groups seeking to replace whites as America's dominant population."}} and has hosted the [[Suidlanders]] on his AmRen podcast to discuss the topic,<ref>{{cite news|title=White genocide: How the big lie spread to the US and beyond |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2018-03-23-00-radical-right-plugs-swart-gevaar |newspaper=[[Mail & Guardian]]|date=March 23, 2018}}</ref> while encouraging donations to the South African organization.<ref>{{cite news|title=Far-right activists are teaming up with white supremacists to exploit South African politics |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/06/far-right-activists-are-teaming-white-supremacists-exploit-south-african-politics/219562 |publisher=[[Media Matters]]|date=March 6, 2018}}</ref> He has recommended [[Jean Raspail]]'s ''[[The Camp of the Saints]]'' to his followers.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Notorious Book that Ties the Right to the Far Right |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/146925/notorious-book-ties-right-far-right |magazine=[[The New Republic]]|date=February 2, 2018}}</ref>
===Attitude towards antisemitism===
Taylor welcomes Jews to his organization and views [[American Jews]] as potential powerful allies. While several speakers of Jewish descent have participated in ''American Renaissance'' conventions, he has never sought to either welcome or expel anti-Semitic voices. This position has sparked tensions with far-right anti-Semitic organizations claiming that Jews are infiltrating their movements.{{sfn|Nieli|2019|p=143}} In 2006, a clash erupted at one convention between anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist [[David Duke]] and [[Michael H. Hart]], a Jewish astrophysicist sharing many of Taylor's ideas.<ref>{{harvnb|Nieli|2019|p=144}}; citing [https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2009/03/18/mainstream-scholars-attend-racist-conference-hosted-jewish-astrophysicist Smith 2009].</ref> ''[[The Forward]]'' reported that Taylor "has been trying to de-Nazify the movement and draw the white nationalist circle wider to include Jews of European descent. But to many on the far right, taking the Jew-hatred out of white nationalism is like taking the Christ out of Christmas—a sacrilege."<ref>{{cite web|title=White Nationalist Conference Ponders Whether Jews and Nazis Can Get Along|url=http://forward.com/news/6615/white-nationalist-conference-ponders-whether-jews/|last1=Tilove|first1=Jonathan|date=3 March 2006 |work=The Forward|access-date=19 January 2017}}</ref>
The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC) comments that Taylor is unusual among the radical right in "his lack of anti-Semitism."<ref name="splc">{{cite web|title=Profile of Jared Taylor|url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/jared-taylor|access-date=2015-07-06|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]}}</ref> Scholar Elizabeth Bryant Morgenstern states that "unlike many other white supremacists, Taylor is not [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitic]], and in fact encourages Jews to join his fight. ... however many within the white supremacist/[[Opposition to immigration#United States|anti-immigration movement]] disagree with Taylor ... and he has been under tremendous pressure to break ties with the Jewish community."<ref name="Arnold2011">{{cite book|author=Kathleen R. Arnold|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raS9TqUFb94C&pg=PA508|title=Anti-immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2011|isbn=978-0-313-37521-7|page=508}}</ref>
===Donald Trump===
Taylor supported [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign]], and recorded [[robocall]]s to support Trump before the [[Iowa Republican caucuses, 2016|Iowa caucus]] and [[New Hampshire Republican primary, 2016|New Hampshire primary]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Piggott|first=Stephen|date=12 January 2016|title=White Nationalists Continue to Support Trump Through Robocalls|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/01/12/white-nationalists-continue-support-trump-through-robocalls|website=Southern Poverty Law Center|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-nationalists-see-advancement-through-donald-trumps-candidacy-1463523858|title=White Nationalists See Advancement Through Donald Trump's Candidacy|newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]]|first=Beth|last=Reinhard}}</ref>
Taylor attended Trump's inauguration with front-row VIP tickets,<ref name="BafflerAmRen">{{Cite web|last=Oltmann|first=Nick|date=10 February 2017|title=Suits and Ties|url=https://thebaffler.com/latest/suits-and-ties-oltmann|website=The Baffler|language=en-US}}</ref> and he described the event as "a sign of rising white consciousness".<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Valeri|first1=Robin Maria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dX1aDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT167|title=Terrorism in America|last2=Borgeson|first2=Kevin|date=2018|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-315-45599-0|language=en}}</ref>
A spokesperson told [[CNN]] that the candidate "disavows all super PACs offering their support and continues to do so."<ref name="cnn_2017">{{cite news|last1=Bronstein|first1=Scott|last2=Griffin|first2=Drew|date=6 February 2016|title=Trump's unwelcome support: White supremacists|agency=CNN|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/donald-trump-white-supremacists-new-hampshire/index.html}}</ref> When asked about the robocalls in an interview with CNN, Trump responded "I would disavow that, but I will tell you people are extremely angry."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rappeport|first1=Alan|date=14 January 2016|title=Donald Trump Disavows Actions by White Nationalist Promoting His Bid|agency=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/14/donald-trump-disavows-actions-by-white-nationalist-promoting-his-bid/}}</ref>
== Influence ==
[[Madison Grant]], the author of ''[[The Passing of the Great Race]]'' (1916), and [[Lothrop Stoddard]], the author of ''[[The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy|The Rising Tide of Color]]'' (1920), each the object of celebratory articles in ''American Renaissance'', seem to have influenced or reinforced Taylor's belief in separate racial homelands.{{Sfn|Nieli|2019|pp=149–150}} Southern conservatives [[Samuel T. Francis|Samuel Francis]] and Sam Dickson, who have been regular speakers at ''American Renaissance'' conferences, are also cited as influential on Taylor's views. According to scholar Russell Nieli, "the combination of southern regional conservatism and Taylor's experience of living in ... Japan has undoubtedly had a formative effect on his thinking about race."{{Sfn|Nieli|2019|p=150}}
Hoping his ethnonationalist project will go global, Taylor has sought in recent years to establish relations with populist radical right parties in Europe such as France's [[National Rally (France)|National Rally]], Britain's [[UK Independence Party|UKIP]], Austria's [[Freedom Party of Austria|Freedom Party]], Germany's [[Alternative for Germany|Alternative für Deutschland]], and Flanders's [[Vlaams Belang]].{{Sfn|Nieli|2019|p=150}} Nieli notes that Taylor appears to have a special intellectual affinity for the [[Nouvelle Droite|French New Right]] author [[Guillaume Faye]], whose books were favorably reviewed by Taylor in ''American Renaissance''; both of them believe that white people need to join in a worldwide fight for their racial, cultural, and demographic survival.{{Sfn|Nieli|2019|pp=150–151}}
According to Nieli, Taylor "may well have been as central to structuring the fledgling [<nowiki/>[[Radical right (United States)|America's radical Right]]] in the 1990s as the late [[William F. Buckley Jr.]] was in the 1950s and 1960s in structuring post-World War II American conservatism. The growing [[Alt-right|Alt Right]] movement in America today owes a great deal to Taylor's past efforts."{{Sfn|Nieli|2019|p=151}}
==Reception==
The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] describes Taylor as "a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist—a kind of modern-day version of the refined but racist colonialist of old."<ref name="splc"/>
Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich, writers for the ''Intelligence Report'' (a publication of the SPLC), have written that "Jared Taylor is the cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy. He is the guy who is providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-day Klansmen." They have also stated that "''American Renaissance'' has become increasingly important over the years, bringing a measure of intellectualism and seriousness to the typically thug-dominated world of white supremacy".<ref name=differences>{{cite web|url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=644&printable=1|title=Schism Threatens White Nationalist Group|publisher=[[Intelligence Report]]|date=Summer 2006|access-date=July 20, 2010|author=Mark Potok|author2=Heidi Beirich|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930182538/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=644&printable=1|archive-date=September 30, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On December 18, 2017, his account (as well as the account for ''American Renaissance'') was [[Twitter suspensions|suspended by Twitter]], after Twitter adopted new rules prohibiting accounts affiliated with the promotion of violence.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/18/twitter-purge-suspends-account-of-far-right-leader-who-was-retweeted-by-trump/ |title='Twitter purge' suspends account of far-right leader who was retweeted by Trump |first1=Craig |last1=Timberg |first2=Hayley |last2=Tsukayama |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=December 18, 2017}}</ref> In February 2018, Taylor filed a lawsuit against Twitter, claiming that the suspension violated his right to free speech.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shugerman|first=Emily|date=22 February 2018|title=A white supremacist is suing Twitter for allegedly violating his right to free speech|language=en-GB|work=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/white-supremacist-jared-taylor-sues-twitter-free-speech-twitter-lockout-a8224056.html|access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref> Taylor's lawsuit was dismissed, and an appeals court upheld the dismissal, agreeing that services can control what is published on their sites.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Burnson|first=Robert|date=August 24, 2018|title=Twitter Beats Censorship Lawsuit by Banned White Nationalist|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-24/twitter-beats-censorship-lawsuit-by-banned-white-advocate|website=Bloomberg}}</ref>
In March 2019, Taylor said on his website that he had been banned from the [[Schengen Area]] for two years on the instigation of Poland.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Michel|first=Casey|date=March 31, 2019|title=Europe bans one of America's most prominent white supremacists|url=https://archive.thinkprogress.org/europe-bans-one-of-americas-most-prominent-white-supremacists-34b34726f623/|website=[[ThinkProgress]]|language=en-US}}</ref>
==References==
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*Elizabeth Bryant Morgenstern, "White Supremacist Groups" in ''Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia'', Vol. 1 (ed. Kathleen R. Arnold: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2011), p. 508: "Jared Taylor is the editor of the American Renaissance magazine, a publication that espouses the superiority of whites. ... Unlike many other white supremacists, Taylor is not anti-Semitic..."
*Michael Newton, ''White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866'' (McFarland, 2014), p. 216: "Virginia white supremacist Jared Taylor"
*Jonathan Mahler, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/politics/donald-trump-supremacists.html Donald Trump's Message Resonates With White Supremacists], ''New York Times'' (March 1, 2016), p. A15: "Jared Taylor, long one of the country's most prominent white supremacists."
*Daniel Kreiss and Kelsey Mason, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/17/heres-what-white-supremacy-looks-and-sounds-like-now-its-not-your-grandfathers-kkk/ Here's what white supremacy looks and sounds like now], ''Washington Post'' (August 17, 2017): "the influential white supremacist Jared Taylor argues:"
*{{cite book |last1=Saini |first1=Angela |author-link1=Angela Saini |title=Superior: The Return of Race Science |date=2019 |publisher=Beacon Press |isbn=9780008293833 |pages=81–82 |quote=Another contributor to ''Mankind Quarterly'' has become a key figure in the white supremacist movement. Yale-educated Jared Taylor, who belongs to a number of right-wing groups and think tanks, founded the magazine ''American Renassaince'' in 1990 ... His brand of white supremacy draws from race science to lend itself the illusion of intellectual backbone.}}</ref>
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Birth Name: Samuel Jared Taylor
Birth Date: 1951-09-15
Birth Place: Kobe, Japan
Occupation: Editor of American Renaissance (magazine)
Occupation: President of the New Century Foundation
Occupation: Author
Focus: United States of America
Website: https://www.amren.com/
Samuel Jared Taylor (born September 15, 1951) is an American White nationalist and editor of American Renaissance, an online pro-White magazine, which was founded by Taylor in October 1990.
He is also the president of American Renaissance's parent organization, New Century Foundation, through which many of his books have been published. He is a former member of the advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly and a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Virginia-based White nationalist think tank. He is also a board member and spokesperson of the Council of Conservative Citizens.
Early life and education
Taylor was born on September 15, 1951, to Christian missionary parents from Virginia in Kobe, Japan. He lived in Japan until he was 16 years old and attended Japanese schools up to the age of 12, becoming fluent in Japanese.
He attended Yale University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1973. Taylor then spent three years in France and received a Master of Arts degree in international economics at Sciences Po in 1978. During a period that interrupted his undergraduate and later graduate college years, he worked and traveled extensively in West Africa, improving his French in the African French of the continent. Taylor is fluent in French, Japanese, and English.
Career
Taylor worked as an international lending officer for the Manufacturers Hanover Corporation from 1978 to 1981, and as West Coast editor of PC Magazine from 1983 to 1988. He has also taught Japanese at the Harvard Summer School, and worked as a courtroom translator.
In the 1980s, at the time of the country's strong economic growth, Taylor was viewed as a "Japan expert" in the mainstream media. In 1983 he published a well-received book on Japanese culture and business customs entitled Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle. While critical of certain aspects of Japanese culture, Taylor argued that Japanese society was more successful in solving social issues than the West, with lower crime rates and a similar or higher standard of living.
Sometime in his early thirties, Jared reassessed the liberal and cosmopolitan viewpoint commonly professed in his working environment, which he had himself shared until then. He became deeply convinced that human beings are tribal in nature and feelings, and that they differ in talent, temperament and capacity. In the mid-1980s, he developed an interest in the emerging fields of evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, especially in the controversial works of Richard Lynn, J. Philippe Rushton and Helmuth Nyborg, and came to believe that differences between human beings are largely of genetic origin, and therefore quasi-immutable. All the social miracles of Japan, Taylor averred by 1991 under the pen name Steven Howell, were at least partly a result of Japan's racial and cultural homogeneity.
In October 1990, Jared founded American Renaissance a physical monthly newsletter, that became online articles in January 2012. In 1994 he created New Century Foundation as the parent company of American Renaissance to assist with running American Renaissance.
In 1992, Jared published a book titled Paved with Good Intentions in which he criticizes what he deems the unwise welfare politics that contributed to the economic situation of the African-American underclass. Unlike many of his American Renaissance articles, the work avoids genetic-based reasoning due to fears of not being able to get it published had he talked about IQ differences. In 1994, he was called by the defense team in a Fort Worth, Texas black-on-black murder trial, to give expert testimony on the race-related aspects of the case.
Views
Jared Taylor rejects the label of racist and sees himself as a "racialist who believes in race-realism". He does not see himself as a White supremacist, but rather sees himself as a White advocate. He believes there are racial differences in intelligence among the various racial groups of the world. He welcomes Jews into his organization and view American Jews as potential allies.
