American Renaissance (magazine)

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American Renaissance
Editor Jared Taylor
Frequency Monthly
Publisher New Century Foundation
First issue 1990
Country United States
Language English
Website www.amren.com

American Renaissance (AR or AmRen) is a monthly online magazine published by the New Century Foundation.[1] American Renaissance has been described as a white supremacist publication by several sources, including The Washington Post, Fortune, and the Anti-Defamation League.[2][3][4][5]

History

The magazine and foundation were founded by Jared Taylor, and the first issue was published in November 1990.[6][7] It first had a web presence in 1994, and was published as a monthly print magazine from its inception until January 2012.[8]

A section called What We Believe on the organization's website states that "Race is an important aspect of individual and group identity. Of all the fault lines that divide society – language, religion, class, ideology – it is the most prominent and divisive."[8]

American Renaissance, the New Century Foundation, or Taylor have had links with organizations such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, the Pioneer Fund, and the British National Party. Don Black and David Duke have attended AR conferences and have been seen talking with Taylor.[9][10] The organization has held bi-annual conferences that are open to the public and that attract 200–300 people. Critics say some who attend are neo-Nazis, white nationalists, white separatists, Holocaust deniers, and eugenicists.[11]

Attendees of AmRen conferences have included: Richard B. Spencer, Joseph Sobran, Michael H. Hart, Paul Gottfried, Glayde Whitney, Frank Borzellieri, Robert Weissberg, Dan Roodt, Guillaume Faye, Drew Fraser, Fred Reed, James Edwards, Alex Kurtagic, Merlin Miller, John Derbyshire, Michael Levin, Nick Griffin, Bruno Gollnisch, J. Philippe Rushton, Glenn Spencer, Lawrence Auster, Richard Lynn, and Samuel T. Francis.[12]

Ideology

The American Renaissance website states:[13]

Race is an important aspect of individual and group identity. Of all the fault lines that divide society—language, religion, class, ideology—it is the most prominent and divisive. Race and racial conflict are at the heart of some of the most serious challenges the Western World faces in the 21st century.

The problems of race cannot be solved without adequate understanding. Attempts to gloss over the significance of race or even to deny its reality only make problems worse. Progress requires the study of all aspects of race, whether historical, cultural, or biological. This approach is known as race realism.

— "What We Believe"

The online magazine is often described as a white supremacist publication; CNN, The Washington Post, Fortune, Slate, and the New York Daily News, among others, have reported on the magazine as such.[14][2][3][15][16]

The magazine and foundation promote the view that differences in educational outcomes and per capita incomes between racial populations can be attributed at least in part to differences in intelligence between races.

Conferences

American Renaissance hosts periodic conferences on subjects of interest to its readers. The conferences were held biennially from 1994–2008, and annually from 2012–2015. A thirteenth conference is scheduled for May, 2016.

Reception and controversy

Southern Poverty Law Center

American Renaissance and the New Century Foundation appear on a list of 115 "white nationalist hate groups" published in the Intelligence Report of the Southern Poverty Law Center.[17]

Mark Potok, editor-in-chief of the Intelligence Report, has said 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." Taylor stated in a radio interview that "I've never been a member of the Klan. I've never known a person who is a member of the Klan," although an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette pointed out that Taylor had at least met former Klansman David Duke at an American Renaissance conference, and sat with Don Black, a former Grand Wizard of the Klan, at Taylor's kitchen table.[9]

An article in the Intelliegence Report by Potok and Heidi Beirich, head of the SPLC's Intelligence Project 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. Today, it may be the closest thing the extreme right has to a real think tank. Whether or not it survives, and in what form, genuinely matters."[18]

Anti-Defamation League

The international Jewish non-governmental organization Anti-Defamation League describes American Renaissance as a "white supremacist journal".[19] The ADL also writes that "Taylor eschews anti-Semitism. Seeing Jews as white, greatly influential and the "conscience of society", Taylor rather seeks to partner with Jews who share his views on race and racial diversity" and "Jews have been speakers and/or participants at all eight American Renaissance conferences" although controversy followed accusations by David Duke, who was not a scheduled presenter, at the 2006 conference.[19] Taylor in response wrote that "There will be no more disgraceful behavior of this kind if people who attend AR conferences bear in mind that Jews have a valuable role in the work of American Renaissance, and are welcome participants and speakers. Anyone who thinks otherwise has the choice of staying home or keeping his views to himself."[20]

Cancellation of 2010, 2011 conferences

In February 2010, following protests to hotel management of several hotels, which Jared Taylor claimed included some death threats, American Renaissance's biennial conference was canceled. Taylor complained that the incident was largely ignored by the media, in sharp contrast, he claimed, with how news outlets would have responded had a civil rights group's conference been shut down.[21]

Immediately after the cancellation of the conference, in a radio interview with the Derek Black Show on WPBR 1340AM in South Florida, Taylor described the forced cancellation as an obstruction of the right to free speech, saying it set a dangerous precedent and paved the way for scenarios in which animal rights activists might shut down a meat packers’ conference or radical environmentalists could shut down a foresters’ meeting through the use of death threats.[22] Taylor also appeared on Russia Today, one of the few news outlets that would interview him.[23] In late October 2010 American Renaissance announced that they would hold a conference in February 2011 in an undisclosed location in Charlotte, NC, the first time in over a decade the conference was not held in the Washington, DC area, and the first time it is to be held in an "off" year for the biennial conference.[24] Although Taylor wanted to keep the location a secret until closer to the start of the conference, activists discovered it was at the Airport Sheraton, who promptly kicked the conference out of the hotel. Other hotels in the area began to follow suit, shutting their doors to the conference, and Taylor was eventually forced to cancel the event, holding instead a session in another hotel where the planned speakers and a few spectators gathered to videotape the speeches they were to give.[25]

Lawrence Auster, a traditionalist conservative and self-described racialist,[26] claimed that Taylor's appearance on Stormfront radio was part of a long-standing pattern of Taylor's in "consorting with anti-Semites" and described Taylor's Stormfront appearance as "morally obtuse".[27] John Derbyshire, however, called the conference shutdown an "ominous" and "shameful thing", and asked for open debate and respect for the freedom of speech and association.[28]

Alleged DHS memo regarding 2011 Tucson shooting

A document initially claimed to be a leaked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo alleged Jared Lee Loughner, the accused gunman in the 2011 Tucson shooting that wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed six bystanders, may have had ties to American Renaissance, which it called an "anti-ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government) and anti-semitic" group.[29][30] In an interview with Fox News, Jared Taylor denied the organization ever used the term "ZOG" and said Loughner had no connection to them.[29]

DHS officials the following day reported that "the department has not established any such possibility, undercutting what appears to be the primary basis for this claim". Furthermore, no such memo had been issued.[31]

Major David Denlinger, commander of the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center acknowledged that the document came from his agency, but contained errors.[32] He said that he has no reason to believe that Loughner had any direct connection with or was being directed by American Renaissance.[33]

Contributors and speakers

See also

References

  1. ↑ "American Renaissance". amren.com. 2011. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011.
  2. 1 2 Peter Holley (2016-01-12). "Hear a white nationalist’s robocall urging Iowa voters to back Trump". Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  3. 1 2 Claire Groden (2016-01-12). "White Supremacist Group Makes Pro-Trump Robocalls". Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  4. ↑ "Jared Taylor/American Renaissance". Extremism in America. Anti-Defemation League. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "Racist Writers Are Right to Feel Threatened". The Atlantic Wire. The Atlantic. April 11, 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  6. ↑ Leonard Zeskind (May 12, 2009). Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 370. ISBN 978-1-4299-5933-9. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ "American Renaissance archives". American Renaissance. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
  8. 1 2 "About Us". American Renaissance.
  9. 1 2 Roddy, Dennis (January 23, 2005). "Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on 2011-06-29.
  10. ↑ American Renaissance
  11. ↑ Dennis Roddy (January 30, 2005). "Weird Science". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  12. ↑ Amren.com
  13. ↑ "About Us". American Renaissance. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  14. ↑ "White nationalist group urges Iowans to vote Trump". CNN. 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2016-02-08. In the 50-second robocall, Johnson, along with Christian talk show host Ronald Tan and white supremacist magazine "American Renaissance" founder Jared Taylor, urges listeners to support Trump in the Iowa caucuses
  15. ↑ Martin Gelin (2014-11-13). "White Flight". Slate.com. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  16. ↑ Adam Edelman (2016-01-11). "White nationalist group calling on Iowa to vote for Trump: ‘We need smart, well-educated white people’". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  17. ↑ "Active Hate Groups In The United States In 2014". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  18. ↑ Potok, Mark; Beirich, Heidi (Summer 2006). "Schism Over Anti-Semitism Divides Key White Nationalist Group, American Renaissance". Intelligence Report. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
  19. 1 2 ADL.org
  20. ↑ American Renaissance News: Jews and American Renaissance
  21. ↑ VDARE.com: 02/16/10 – The Saga of American Renaissance’s 2010 Conference: "Anarcho-Tyranny" In Action
  22. ↑ Stormfront.org
  23. ↑ Unpopular free speech on YouTube
  24. ↑ 2011 AR Conference – Register now!
  25. ↑ White nationalist leader to discuss hotel cancellation – CharlotteObserver.com
  26. ↑ "Does the darkest hour come right before the dawn?" Lawrence Auster. View from the Right. November 19, 2009.
  27. ↑ "'Let the David Dukes and the Don Blacks worry about Mr. Taylor's rights.'" Lawrence Auster. View from the Right. February 18, 2010.
  28. ↑ John Derbyshire. "How Liberty Dies".
  29. 1 2 Summers, Patrick (January 9, 2011). "American Renaissance Denies DHS Charges, Any Affiliation With Shooter". Fox News.com. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
  30. ↑ Jonsson, Patrik (January 9, 2011). "American Renaissance: Was Jared Lee Loughner tied to anti-immigrant group? A Department of Homeland Security memo suggests a 'possible link' between Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and American Renaissance, an 'anti-government' journal". The Christian Science Monitor.
  31. ↑ "Official: DHS has not determined any possible ties between Arizona shooter and right wing group". The Washington Post.
  32. ↑ "It’s Official: No Loughner/AR "Link"". March 7, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
  33. ↑ Jared Loughner’s supremacists tie debunked
  34. 1 2 Guess who came to the American Renaissance conference?
  35. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fourth American Renaissance Conference (2000)
  36. 1 2 3 4 5 2015 AmRen Conference
  37. ↑ "A Busy Month for American Renaissance". March 2011. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
  38. ↑ "White Tribalism Disrupts Their Regularly Scheduled Programming".
  39. ↑ "America in 2034". American Renaissance. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  40. ↑ Multiculturalism and Marxism
  41. 1 2 3 4 1996 AR Conference a Huge Success
  42. 1 2 Among the Living Again: 2006 conference breaks attendance records.
  43. 1 2 3 4 5 6 2008: Another Successful AR Conference :: American Renaissance News
  44. ↑ Levin, M.: Is There a Superior Race? A philosophical answer to the inevitable question. AmRen.com. February 1999
  45. ↑ Paul Ray Ramsey, SPLC-File
  46. ↑ Ninth American Renaissance Conference (2011): Defending the West
  47. ↑ Dr. Robert Weissberg – Relationship Between Blacks and Jews

Further reading

External links

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