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American Renaissance (magazine)

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American Renaissance (AR or AmRen) is a monthly racialist magazine published by the New Century Foundation.^[1] The magazine's founder Jared Taylor has been called a white separatist.^[2] The magazine and foundation were founded by Jared Taylor, and the first issue was published in November 1990. A main theme of the magazine is a claim that non-white minorities pose a demographic threat to the United States and other European-derived nations. The magazine argues that the United States' major social problems are due to racial diversity and a weakening of the country's white racial heritage by increased non-white immigration. In the August 1997 edition, there was a poll of readers on who had done the most for the white race, and Adolf Hitler got the most votes. Hitler also got the most votes as the person who had done the greatest harm to the white race.^[3] The magazine's arguments are usually explained using social science and genetics, but some issues of AR have featured theological arguments. One argument has been that interracial and inter-cultural marriage is racial suicide and an unequal yoking, and that such unions "go against the very community which marriage is designed to establish."^[4] 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. Such views have led to accusations of racism and white supremacy. American Renaissance and the New Century Foundation are alleged to have had links with far right, neo-fascist and racist organizations and individuals such as: the Council of Conservative Citizens, the Pioneer Fund, the British National Party, Don Black and David Duke.^[5]^[6] The organization has held bi-annual conferences that are open to the public and that attract 200 - 300 people. Critics say that some of those who attend are neo-Nazis, white nationalists, white separatists, Ku Klux Klan members, Holocaust deniers and eugenicists (as well as numerous protestors).^[7] Taylor has written that the magazine welcomes Jews as writers and conference speakers.^[8] Contributors to the magazine and conferences have included Stephen Webster, Michael Levin, Nick Griffin, Bruno Gollnisch, J. Philippe Rushton, Ian Jobling, Glenn Spencer, Lawrence Auster, Richard Lynn, Sam Dickson, and Samuel Francis. Critics claim that the magazine uses pseudoscience to give the impression that it provides well-researched, carefully thought-out assessments of differences between races. The critics say contributors to the magazine sometimes cite facts and statistics derived from reputable sources, but taken out of context. They say the magazine's writers extrapolate or exaggerate conclusions that the data does not bear out, or that they emphasize data that supports their own positions while downplaying or simply ignoring contrary evidence.