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Samuel Jared Taylor (born September 15, 1951) is an American white supremacist and editor of American Renaissance, an online magazine espousing such opinions, which was founded by Taylor in 1990.
He is also the president of American Renaissances 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.
Taylor and many of his affiliated organizations have been accused of promoting racist ideologies by civil rights groups, journalists, and academics studying racism in the United States.
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.. See the alumni directory of the institution for the date. 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.
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 liberal and cosmopolitanism 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. 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."
In November 1990, he founded and published the first issue of American Renaissance, a white supremacy subscription-based monthly newsletter. He created the New Century Foundation in 1994 to assist with the running of American Renaissance. 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 Klansman's or white skinhead's discourse that dominated the media at that time. The journal ceased its print publication in 2012 to focus on a daily online magazine format.
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.; . 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. Prior to testifying in the trial, Taylor, presented as a "Race relations expert and author" by The 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 to think this was a kill-or-be-killed situation."
News coverage of Taylor has associated him with the alt-right.
Taylor argues that his work with American Renaissance is analogous to other groups that advocate for ethnic or racial interests.. American Renaissance has been described as a white supremacist publication which exists primarily to disparage minorities. In the journal in 2005, he stated, "Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization any kind of civilization disappears." A 2005 feature in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described Taylor as "a racist in the guise of expert"." Jared Taylor, a Racist in the Guise of 'Expert'". Dennis Roddy. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 23, 2005.
Taylor presents his segregationist project as based on civil liberties and freedom of association, and has described government-mandated segregation as morally unjust. He opposes all anti-discrimination laws as unacceptable. Taylor also opposes anti-miscegenation laws as impinging on personal freedom..
Taylor says 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. He thus supports immigration policies that would favor white immigrants over other groups. Taylor has argued against the 1965 Hart-Celler Act, which decreased de facto racism in U.S. immigration policy.Jared Taylor, in an interview with ABC News' Amna Nawaz, on 26 March 2017; Jared Taylor, ABC Interview 2017.
Taylor supports the white genocide conspiracy theory, and has hosted the Suidlanders on his AmRen podcast to discuss the topic, while encouraging donations to the South African organization. He has recommended Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints to his followers.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) comments that Taylor is unusual among the radical right in "his lack of anti-Semitism." Scholar Elizabeth Bryant Morgenstern states that "unlike many other white supremacists, Taylor is not Antisemitism, and in fact encourages Jews to join his fight. ... however many within the white supremacist/anti-immigration movement disagree with Taylor ... and he has been under tremendous pressure to break ties with the Jewish community."
Taylor believes that white voters were drawn to Donald Trump in the 2016 election specifically because of Trump's white identity politics. Taylor attended Trump's first presidential inauguration with front-row VIP tickets, and he described the event as "a sign of rising white consciousness".
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, Britain's UKIP, Austria's Freedom Party, Germany's Alternative für Deutschland, and Flanders's Vlaams Belang. Nieli notes that Taylor appears to have a special intellectual affinity for the Nouvelle Droite 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.
According to Nieli, Taylor "may well have been as central to structuring the fledgling
On December 18, 2017, Taylor's Twitter account (as well as the account for American Renaissance) was suspended by Twitter, after Twitter adopted new rules prohibiting accounts affiliated with the promotion of violence. In February 2018, Taylor filed a lawsuit against Twitter, claiming that the suspension violated his right to free speech. Taylor's lawsuit was dismissed, and an appeals court upheld the dismissal, agreeing that services can control what is published on their sites.
In March 2019, Taylor said on his website that he had been banned from the Schengen Area for two years at the instigation of Poland.
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