# American Renaissance A white nationalist publication and website founded by [[Jared Taylor]] in 1990, publishing under the euphemism "race realism" — the claim that racial differences in intelligence and behavior are biologically determined and socially significant. American Renaissance (AmRen) occupies a critical position in the right-wing ecosystem as the intellectual laundering operation for white supremacist ideology, packaging it in academic-adjacent language and conference formats that allow it to claim respectability while advancing explicitly racist premises. AmRen is designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. ## Jared Taylor and "[[Race Realism]]" Taylor is a Yale-educated, French-born American who presents white nationalism in deliberately measured, professorial tones — a tactical choice to make the ideology more palatable to educated audiences and harder to dismiss as mere crude racism. His framing: he's just asking questions about race and IQ research, not promoting hatred. His actual positions: white people constitute a distinct people who have a right and obligation to maintain political and cultural dominance in the countries they built; immigration (especially nonwhite immigration) represents an existential threat to Western civilization; integration has been a failure; racial separation is preferable and natural. ## Annual Conferences AmRen holds annual conferences that serve as networking events for the white nationalist movement, bringing together academics who publish in race-and-IQ journals, political figures from the European far right, and American white nationalist organizers. The conferences have been repeatedly targeted by anti-fascist protesters and have had venues cancel under pressure. ## Connection to the Tanton Network The [[Tanton Network]] and AmRen share significant ideological DNA. [[John Tanton]] corresponded with Taylor and shared his views on racial differences, though Tanton was more careful to frame [[FAIR]]/CIS/NumbersUSA in economic rather than racial terms. [[Stephen Miller]] was documented by the SPLC's Hatewatch citing and recommending AmRen content to Breitbart reporters — a direct link between the white nationalist publication and the architect of Trump immigration policy. ## Platform Bans American Renaissance and Taylor have been banned from Twitter/X (though partially restored under Musk), Facebook, and [[YouTube]] at various points. AmRen's website continues to operate, hosting a large archive of articles, book reviews, and conference videos. ## Role in the Ecosystem AmRen represents the explicit white nationalist end of the spectrum that groups like FAIR and CIS are designed to launder into policy. The pipeline runs: AmRen frames the ideology → Tanton Network organizations translate it into policy advocacy → Stephen Miller implements it → Breitbart amplifies it → mainstream Republican politics absorbs it. Taylor's contribution is maintaining a "respectable" intellectual home for ideas that would otherwise be confined to neo-Nazi forums.