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Jared Taylor

Samuel Jared Taylor (born September 15, 1951) is an American writer, editor, and advocate for European-American ethnic interests. Born in Kobe, Japan, to American parents serving as Christian missionaries, Taylor spent his early years there before returning to the United States for higher education.^[1]^[2] He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Yale University (1973) and completed advanced studies at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.^[2] In 1990, Taylor established the New Century Foundation, a nonprofit organization that publishes American Renaissance, a periodical and website analyzing race, immigration, and cultural preservation through the lens of empirical differences among human populations.^[2]^[3] As editor since 1991, he has organized annual conferences featuring speakers who discuss data on group disparities in intelligence, crime rates, and social cohesion, arguing that multiculturalism erodes national unity and that whites, like other groups, should pursue self-preservation without guilt.^[2] Taylor is the author of books such as Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the 'Japanese Miracle' (1987), Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in America (1992), and White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century (2011), which cite statistical evidence to challenge narratives of racial equality and advocate for voluntary separation to avoid conflict. His work has drawn opposition from civil rights organizations, leading to bans from platforms like Twitter and YouTube, though Taylor maintains his positions derive from scientific data rather than animus.^[4]

Early Life and Education

Upbringing and Family Influences

Samuel Jared Taylor was born on September 15, 1951, in Japan to American parents engaged in Christian missionary work.^[5] His father, a Presbyterian missionary described as liberal in outlook, and mother contributed to efforts proselytizing in a predominantly non-Christian society, exposing the family to cultural and religious dynamics distinct from Western norms. The family resided primarily in areas like Kobe and Kyoto, where Taylor spent his early years immersed in Japanese environments.^[6] Taylor lived in Japan until the age of 16, attending local Japanese schools for much of his childhood and adolescence, which facilitated his acquisition of fluency in the Japanese language, both spoken and written.^[7] This immersion provided firsthand observation of a society characterized by high ethnic homogeneity, with ethnic Japanese comprising over 98 percent of the population during that era.^[8] The experience highlighted patterns of group cohesion and behavioral norms tied to shared racial and cultural identity, contrasting with the missionary family's efforts to bridge cultural divides through evangelism.^[5] The family's missionary activities involved interactions across ethnic lines in Asia, including exposure to diverse non-Western populations, which underscored differences in social organization and interpersonal conduct attributable to racial and ethnic affiliations rather than solely environmental factors.^[9] Taylor's upbringing in this setting, under parents committed to universalist Christian ideals yet operating within a context of persistent cultural separation, laid foundational encounters with themes of group distinctiveness and homogeneity's role in societal stability.^[6]

Academic Background and Early Experiences

Taylor returned to the United States at age 16 after spending his early childhood in Japan, where he became fluent in Japanese. He subsequently pursued higher education, earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Yale University in 1973. ^[10] This classical liberal arts training emphasized rigorous analysis and first-principles questioning, which Taylor later credited with fostering his preference for empirical evidence over ideological assumptions in assessing human differences.^[3] Following Yale, Taylor undertook graduate studies at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), obtaining a master's degree in international economics.^[10] ^[11] His coursework there concentrated on economic development and global inequalities, exposing him to data on disparities in productivity, governance, and societal outcomes across nations, which challenged prevailing egalitarian doctrines by highlighting persistent patterns uncorrelated with colonial histories or resource endowments.^[3] Interrupting his studies, Taylor worked and traveled extensively in West Africa, where direct encounters with local conditions—such as varying tribal capacities for self-organization and economic management—reinforced his growing empirical skepticism toward universal human equality.^[3] These experiences, combined with his academic grounding, shifted his worldview from abstract idealism to a realism grounded in observable causal factors, including inherited group differences, laying the foundation for his subsequent critiques of multiculturalism.

Professional Career

Roles in International Finance and Consulting

From 1978 to 1981, Jared Taylor served as an international lending officer at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, with postings in New York and Tokyo.^[2]^[12] In this role, he managed cross-border financial transactions amid the era's expanding global trade, particularly involving Japanese markets, leveraging his fluency in Japanese acquired during his upbringing in the country.^[1] After leaving the bank, Taylor provided consulting services to U.S. firms seeking to establish or expand operations in Japan during the 1980s economic boom.^[13] His advisory work emphasized navigating cultural nuances, regulatory environments, and business practices in Japan, informed by his firsthand experience and linguistic proficiency, which facilitated direct engagement with local stakeholders. This period culminated in Taylor's 1983 publication of Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle, a detailed examination of Japan's postwar economic ascent, corporate structures, and societal factors underpinning productivity. The book, drawing on empirical observations of fiscal policies and labor dynamics, received coverage in U.S. outlets as a pragmatic guide for Western executives, predating Taylor's later focus on domestic policy issues.^[14]

Founding and Leadership of American Renaissance

In 1990, Jared Taylor established the New Century Foundation as a think tank dedicated to research on race relations and immigration, operating independently to prioritize empirical analysis over ideological agendas.^[1] That same year, the foundation launched American Renaissance as a print magazine, with its inaugural issue appearing in November, aimed at fostering candid discussion of racial differences grounded in statistical evidence on intelligence, crime rates, and societal outcomes, while explicitly avoiding religious motivations or conspiratorial theories.^[15] Taylor, serving as president of the foundation and editor of the publication, exercised direct oversight to ensure content adhered to data-driven perspectives, drawing on sources such as government statistics and academic studies to highlight patterns in racial group behaviors and capabilities.^[2] Taylor's leadership emphasized financial autonomy, with operations sustained primarily through individual contributions and his personal resources, enabling resistance to external pressures that might compromise the platform's focus on verifiable disparities rather than emotional or unscientific appeals.^[16] This approach allowed American Renaissance to maintain a niche for "race realism," presenting arguments for innate group differences in cognitive abilities and criminality based on metrics like IQ distributions and incarceration data, without endorsing broader supremacist narratives involving secret cabals or historical fabrications.^[17] The magazine transitioned from print to an exclusively online format after its final issue in January 2012, leveraging the website established in 1994 to expand reach with daily articles, podcasts, and video content while continuing biannual conferences amid frequent venue cancellations and protests.^[16] Under Taylor's continued direction, this evolution preserved the outlet's commitment to analytical rigor, adapting to digital dissemination without diluting its core emphasis on biological and cultural realism over polemical excess.^[2]

Intellectual Positions

Race Realism and Biological Differences

Taylor describes race realism as the empirical acknowledgment of innate biological differences among human population groups in cognitive abilities, behavioral tendencies, and physical traits, challenging the prevailing egalitarian doctrine that such disparities arise solely from environmental factors. He argues that these differences are evident in measurable outcomes like intelligence quotient (IQ) distributions, where meta-analyses of standardized tests show consistent averages: East Asians at approximately 105, Europeans at 100, African Americans at 85, and sub-Saharan Africans lower still, with gaps of about one standard deviation between blacks and whites in the United States persisting despite socioeconomic controls.^[18]^[19] Twin studies demonstrate IQ heritability of 50-80% in adulthood, while transracial adoption research, such as the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study, reveals black children raised by white families scoring 89 on average IQ compared to 106 for white adoptees, indicating genetic contributions beyond nurture.^[19]^[20] These innate variances, Taylor maintains, manifest in behavioral domains, including crime rates and impulse control. Drawing from National Crime Victimization Survey data analyzed in his 1999 report The Color of Crime, he notes that blacks, comprising 13% of the U.S. population, accounted for 56% of known homicide offenders and were 39 times more likely to commit violent crimes against whites than whites against blacks between 2008 and 2012; overall black violent crime rates exceed white rates by factors of 5-8 for offenses like robbery and assault.^[21] Such patterns correlate with lower average executive function and higher testosterone levels observed in cross-racial physiological studies, which Taylor links to evolutionary adaptations rather than poverty or discrimination alone. Educational achievement gaps reinforce this, with black students averaging 200-300 points below whites and Asians on SAT scores annually, and global metrics like PISA assessments showing national IQ correlating with GDP per capita at r=0.7-0.8 across countries.^[19] Taylor explicitly disavows white supremacy, emphasizing that racial realism posits average group differences without deeming any race inherently superior across all traits—whites, for instance, may lag East Asians in visuospatial IQ components vital for certain innovations. Instead, he prioritizes causal realism: ignoring these differences fuels policy failures like affirmative action, which yield mismatches in academic and professional performance, and multicultural friction from incompatible group norms. Acknowledgment, he proposes, justifies voluntary separation into ethnostates to preserve cultural integrity and minimize interracial conflict, as forced integration amplifies resentment without closing gaps.^[22]^[23]

Immigration, Multiculturalism, and Nationalism

Taylor argues that mass immigration from non-European sources erodes social trust and cohesion, drawing on empirical findings such as Robert Putnam's 2007 study, which demonstrated that a 10 percent increase in ethnic diversity within a community leads to a 10 to 15 percent decline in social trust, alongside reduced civic engagement and weaker social bonds.^[24] He contends that enforced multiculturalism ignores innate human preferences for ethnic homogeneity, as evidenced by patterns of residential segregation where individuals, when possible, avoid diverse neighborhoods, reflecting deeply rooted tribal instincts shaped by evolutionary pressures for group loyalty and survival.^[25]^[26] In Taylor's view, such immigration imposes fiscal burdens through disproportionate welfare dependency, with non-European groups, particularly Hispanics, contributing to runaway costs in public services like Medicaid, where estimates from California in the 1990s showed half of state welfare births attributable to illegal immigrant mothers, straining resources without commensurate economic offsets.^[25] He highlights cultural incompatibilities, pointing to demographic shifts in U.S. cities correlating with urban decay and crime spikes, as well as European precedents like immigrant enclaves that foster parallel societies resistant to assimilation, undermining national unity.^[27] Taylor advocates a complete moratorium on immigration to halt the erosion of the white demographic majority, projected to become a minority by mid-century under current trends, thereby preserving the ethnic homogeneity he sees as essential for societal stability and trust, akin to successful ethno-nationalist models in countries like Slovenia, which remain unspoiled by large-scale inflows.^[28] Grounded in evolutionary psychology, this position posits that humans thrive in ethnically similar groups due to tribal affinities that promote cooperation and reduce conflict, contrasting with the balkanization observed in diverse polities.^[24] He rejects multiculturalism as a source of division rather than strength, asserting that immigration destroys the homogeneity necessary for functional societies.^[24]

Views on Jews and Rejection of Antisemitism

Jared Taylor has acknowledged the empirical evidence for Ashkenazi Jewish intellectual overrepresentation, attributing it to an average IQ estimated at 110–115, which contributes to disproportionate success in fields like finance, media, and academia relative to their population share of about 2% in the United States.^[29]^[30] He views this as a product of genetic and cultural factors akin to those he attributes to other groups, but maintains that such success does not warrant collective blame or targeted policies against Jews as a group.^[18] Taylor explicitly rejects antisemitism, defining it narrowly as irrational hatred of Jews based on ethnicity rather than permitting criticism of specific individuals or policies.^[31] He has disavowed Holocaust denial and Nazi admiration, describing associations with neo-Nazis or deniers as counterproductive and barring such figures from American Renaissance platforms and conferences to avoid alienating potential white allies, including Jews who endorse race-realist views on IQ and immigration.^[32]^[33] In a 2006 incident at an American Renaissance conference, Taylor publicly rebuked antisemitic rhetoric from speaker David Duke, leading to a schism that reinforced his stance against such distractions from core advocacy for white interests.^[34] While observing that Jewish overrepresentation in liberal institutions correlates with advocacy for multiculturalism and open immigration—policies Taylor argues undermine white majorities—he contends that antisemitism diverts attention from building white solidarity as the proper response, rather than retaliation or conspiracy theories.^[31]^[35] He opposes immigration restrictions singling out Jews, classifying them as compatible with European-derived white identity and inviting Jewish speakers like astrophysicist Michael Hart to conferences to underscore shared interests in preserving racial demographics.^[33]^[34] This position, articulated consistently since the 1990s, prioritizes empirical focus on non-European immigration over ethnic scapegoating.^[36]

Positions on American Politics and Leadership

Taylor has pragmatically evaluated American political leaders based on their potential to advance policies protecting white interests, particularly through immigration restriction and recognition of demographic realities. In the 2016 presidential election, he broke from abstaining in prior races to vote for Donald Trump, citing the candidate's promises of a border wall and curbs on immigration as unprecedented acknowledgments of the failures of multiculturalism and the need to preserve America's European-derived majority.^[37] Trump’s rhetoric on Mexican immigrants and Muslim entry bans was interpreted by Taylor as a tacit admission of racial differences in crime rates and cultural compatibility, even if not explicitly framed that way.^[38] This support stemmed from policy realism rather than ideological alignment, as Taylor viewed Trump's campaign as injecting white consciousness into mainstream discourse for the first time.^[39] Taylor has consistently criticized the Republican establishment for ignoring white demographic displacement and prioritizing economic conservatism over identity preservation. He argues that the GOP's reluctance to address non-white population growth—projected to make whites a minority by 2045—renders it complicit in cultural erosion, as seen in its failure to challenge affirmative action or mass legal immigration effectively.^[40] Post-2020, Taylor expressed skepticism about election outcomes amid cultural shifts, emphasizing that even apparent Republican gains, like Trump's, do little to reverse fertility differentials and immigration trends favoring non-whites, which he quantifies as annual net migration exceeding 1 million since 1965 under Hart-Celler reforms.^[41] He reluctantly backed Trump again in 2020 for incremental restrictions but faulted the party for evolving into a "de facto white party" without embracing explicit advocacy.^[37] Taylor exhibits skepticism toward mainstream conservatism that avoids explicit defense of white identity, dismissing civic nationalism as insufficient unless tethered to preserving European heritage against multiculturalism. He contends that conservatives' color-blind ideology—evident in figures like Paul Ryan opposing identity politics—paradoxically enables racial displacement by refusing to prioritize white group interests, contrasting this with his advocacy for ethno-nationalism rooted in biological and historical continuity.^[42] True nationalism, in Taylor's view, requires recognizing that America's founding stock was overwhelmingly European, with non-European influxes correlating with rising welfare costs (estimated at $135 billion annually for immigrants per 2017 data) and social fragmentation.^[43] This stance leads him to favor leaders who, like Trump, implicitly signal heritage defense over those promoting abstract propositional values disconnected from racial demographics.^[40]

Organizational Efforts and Publications

American Renaissance Conferences and Media

American Renaissance has organized annual conferences since 1994, providing a platform for discussions on race realism grounded in empirical data and statistical analysis rather than ideological assertions.^[44] These events feature speakers including academics, scientists, and public intellectuals who present evidence on topics such as IQ differences across racial groups, crime rates, and the effects of multiculturalism.^[45] The conferences emphasize rational debate and reject calls for violence, positioning themselves as forums for civil discourse on racial self-determination and preservation of white-majority societies.^[46] Logistical challenges have marked the conferences, including frequent venue relocations due to protests and pressure from activist groups. Early events faced disruptions, leading to shifts in locations, but by the 2010s, they settled into regular hosting at Montgomery Bell State Park near Nashville, Tennessee, for nearly a decade starting around 2012.^[47] Despite opposition from local faith leaders and anti-fascist demonstrators, Tennessee venues persisted, prompting American Renaissance to sue the state in 2018 over a security fee imposed for events deemed high-risk.^[48] Attendance typically draws hundreds, prioritizing intellectual attendees over militant activists.^[49] The organization's media efforts include its online platform, which publishes articles, podcasts, and videos advocating for white homelands as a matter of ethnic self-determination akin to other groups' rights.^[50] Jared Taylor has appeared in mainstream outlets, such as a 2017 ABC News interview where he argued for racial separation based on observed incompatibilities and historical patterns, without endorsing supremacy or harm.^[51] To maintain focus on scientific inquiry, American Renaissance enforces a policy excluding Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis, having banned such discussions and removed proponents from its mailing lists by 1997, thereby attracting participants committed to evidence-based arguments over conspiracy theories.^[44] This approach distinguishes its media from more fringe elements, fostering a reputation for measured, data-driven advocacy.^[52]

Major Books and Writings

Taylor's debut book on racial matters, Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America (Carroll & Graf, 1992), critiques post-civil rights policies aimed at integration, arguing they have exacerbated social divisions through denial of innate group differences.^[27] Drawing on federal crime data showing black offenders committing violent crimes at rates seven to eight times higher than whites per capita in the late 1980s, and welfare statistics indicating over 50% of black households reliant on public assistance compared to 10% of white households, Taylor contends these outcomes stem from unrealistic assumptions about racial interchangeability rather than socioeconomic factors alone.^[53] The work posits that acknowledging racial patterns in behavior fosters realistic policy over idealistic denialism.^[54] In White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century (New Century Books, 2011), Taylor advances the case for white ethnic solidarity as a natural response to demographic shifts and cultural erosion, paralleling identity assertions by non-white groups without the stigma applied to whites.^[55] He compiles evidence from social psychology studies, such as those demonstrating implicit racial preferences in mate selection and neighborhood choices across all groups, to argue that suppressing white racial awareness leads to self-marginalization amid rising non-white majorities.^[56] Taylor counters narratives pathologizing white advocacy by noting historical precedents where ethnic consciousness preserved group interests, urging recognition of biological affinities as essential for survival in plural societies.^[55] Taylor's later compilations, such as If We Do Nothing (New Century Books, 2002, with ongoing relevance in demographic projections), synthesize essays warning of America's trajectory toward non-white majority status by mid-century, based on U.S. Census Bureau estimates of white population declining from 63% in 2010 to under 50% by 2045.^[57] These writings advocate proactive measures like immigration restriction to maintain cultural continuity, framing inaction as acquiescence to displacement driven by differential birth rates and migration patterns rather than conspiracy. Empirical trends, including persistent interracial marriage rates below 5% for whites, underscore the improbability of assimilation erasing group distinctions.^[57]

Influence and Associations

Shaping White Advocacy and Identity Movements

Jared Taylor has played a pivotal role in intellectualizing white preservation by advocating for a fact-based, non-violent approach to white identity politics through the American Renaissance platform, founded in 1990. By emphasizing empirical data on racial differences in intelligence, crime rates, and social outcomes—drawing from studies like those on IQ distributions across populations—Taylor framed white advocacy as a rational response to demographic shifts and multiculturalism's failures, rather than emotional or supremacist rhetoric.^[36]^[58] This "respectable" racialism influenced European identitarian groups, such as Generation Identity, by modeling advocacy centered on cultural preservation and repatriation policies without calls for aggression, inspiring activists to prioritize persuasion over confrontation.^[59] Taylor's writings, particularly White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century (2011), contributed to mainstreaming human biodiversity (HBD) concepts within dissident right literature by integrating peer-reviewed research on genetic influences on group behaviors and capabilities, cited extensively in works challenging egalitarian assumptions.^[60]^[61] He argued that whites, like other ethnic groups, should foster in-group solidarity to counter policies eroding their majority status, such as mass immigration, thereby shifting discourse from abstract individualism to concrete ethnic interests supported by statistical evidence on integration failures.^[62] This approach elevated HBD from fringe speculation to a cornerstone of white advocacy, referenced in analyses of evolutionary psychology and population genetics.^[63] In the alt-right's evolution, Taylor differentiated his influence by insisting on evidence-driven debate over ironic memes or provocations, a stance that intensified post-2017 Charlottesville fragmentation. While not attending the rally, he publicly critiqued its violent turn as counterproductive, reinforcing a divide between intellectual advocates and radical fringes, thus sustaining a restrained strand of identity politics amid broader backlash.^[64]^[43] His ongoing conferences and publications continued to attract those seeking substantive arguments for white interests, fostering a legacy of measured dissent that avoided the pitfalls of extremism.^[65]

Interactions with Other Figures and Groups

Taylor initially collaborated with David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, by inviting him to speak at early American Renaissance conferences in the 1990s, reflecting shared interests in white advocacy despite Duke's more explicit antisemitic positions.^[34] By the mid-2000s, however, Taylor publicly distanced himself from antisemitic elements within the white nationalist milieu, emphasizing that such views were counterproductive to building broader coalitions around race realism and explicitly barring overt antisemites from his events to preserve intellectual credibility amid ideological fractures.^[66] This disassociation, articulated in response to internal schisms at American Renaissance gatherings, prioritized empirical arguments on racial differences over conspiratorial narratives, though critics from both mainstream and far-right fringes accused Taylor of insufficient rigor in enforcement.^[35] In recent years, Taylor has maintained engagements with dissident right groups while navigating deplatforming pressures. On March 27, 2025, he delivered a speech titled "Divorce Papers for a Divided Nation" at Colorado Mesa University, invited by the student-led Western Culture Club, drawing approximately 40 attendees amid protests from community groups and Democratic Socialists, who decried the event as promoting white supremacy; university president John Marshall defended the invitation on free speech grounds, highlighting ongoing tensions over campus access for controversial speakers.^[67] ^[68] Similarly, in October 2025, Taylor entered the United Kingdom—despite prior travel restrictions—to address the Patriotic Alternative national conference, an event organized by a nationalist group focused on immigration restriction and white identity, underscoring incomplete success of international deplatforming efforts against figures advocating non-antisemitic racial separatism.^[69] ^[70] These appearances reflect Taylor's strategy of selective alliances with groups emphasizing nationalism over Holocaust revisionism or explicit Jew-baiting, aiming to sustain dialogue in restricted environments.

Reception, Controversies, and Responses

Criticisms from Mainstream and Progressive Sources

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), rated as left-biased by media bias evaluators such as AllSides and Media Bias/Fact Check,^[71]^[72] has classified Jared Taylor as a key figure in white nationalism since the early 1990s, accusing him of advancing pseudo-scientific claims about innate racial differences in intelligence, crime, and behavior to rationalize opposition to multiculturalism and immigration.^[73]^[32] The SPLC's designation frames Taylor's American Renaissance publication as a vehicle for repackaging eugenics-era ideas under the guise of "race realism," equating empirical discussions of group disparities with advocacy for racial hierarchy.^[74] The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), rated as left-center biased by Media Bias/Fact Check,^[75] similarly labels Taylor an "academic racist," highlighting his focus on statistical data showing black underperformance in academics and higher crime involvement as implicit endorsements of racial inferiority, notwithstanding his stated opposition to supremacist violence or blanket denigrations.^[33] ADL critiques portray Taylor's emphasis on voluntary racial separation and preservation of white-majority societies as dog-whistling mechanisms that normalize exclusionary ideologies without overt calls to harm.^[76] Mainstream media outlets have amplified these views by linking Taylor's intellectualized racial advocacy to real-world extremism. For instance, an August 2017 NPR analysis invoked Taylor's non-attendance at the Charlottesville rally while attributing his "trickle-up" influence—through popularized narratives on white identity and demographic threats—to the event's mobilization of far-right participants, thereby heightening public alarms over mainstreaming such thought.^[64] Progressive commentary, including in outlets like GQ, depicts Taylor as a "suit-and-tie white supremacist" whose data-driven denial of colorblindness subtly erodes egalitarian norms, often sidelining his explicit repudiations of antisemitism or coercive measures in favor of broader fears of ideological contagion.^[77]

Endorsements and Support from Dissident Right

Samuel T. Francis, a prominent paleoconservative columnist, frequently contributed to American Renaissance and spoke at its inaugural conference in May 1994, as well as subsequent events, endorsing Taylor's emphasis on empirical data regarding racial differences in crime rates and intelligence quotients.^[78]^[79] Francis's writings, compiled in the 2007 volume Essential Writings on Race edited and introduced by Taylor, drew on statistical evidence of group disparities to critique egalitarian policies, aligning with Taylor's data-driven critiques in books like Paved with Good Intentions.^[80] Peter Brimelow, founder of VDARE and a paleoconservative immigration restrictionist, co-authored a 2017 New York Times opinion piece with Taylor defending their organizations against supremacist labels and praising the focus on factual racial realism over ideological extremism.^[81] Brimelow's participation in American Renaissance conferences, including the 2016 event, further signaled support for Taylor's rigorous, statistics-based exposure of multiculturalism's failures.^[82] Taylor's works have influenced European identitarians associated with the Nouvelle Droite, with translations of White Identity into French and other languages facilitating its adoption as a counter to demographic decline. His foreword to Guillaume Faye's 2019 posthumous book Ethnic Apocalypse: The Coming European Civil War, a key text in continental nationalist circles, positioned Taylor's race-realist framework as an antidote to Europe's "demographic suicide," earning reciprocal endorsements from Faye's adherents who value the transatlantic empirical alliance.^[23] Dissident right figures have credited Taylor's explicit rejection of antisemitism with broadening white advocacy's appeal beyond neo-Nazi fringes, enabling alliances with Jewish intellectuals and conservatives wary of conspiracy theories.^[83] This stance, articulated in Taylor's insistence that Jews share European interests against non-white immigration, has been praised for rendering the movement more intellectually respectable and politically viable.^[84]

Deplatforming, Legal Challenges, and Defenses

In December 2017, Twitter permanently suspended Jared Taylor's account as part of a broader crackdown on accounts associated with abusive content and white nationalist views.^[85] Taylor filed a lawsuit against Twitter in February 2018 in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging viewpoint discrimination and breach of the platform's terms promising free speech for lawful content.^[85] He argued that the ban targeted his advocacy of white identity based on statistical data about racial differences, rather than any incitement to violence or illegal activity.^[86] The court dismissed the lawsuit in August 2018, ruling that Twitter, as a private company, was protected under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act from liability for moderating user content, and that Taylor's claims did not overcome the platform's discretion in enforcing its policies.^[86] Taylor's legal team contended that this discretion functioned as a de facto censorship of unpopular but fact-based opinions, but the decision upheld Twitter's authority without finding evidence of contractual fraud in its free-speech pledges.^[87] American Renaissance conferences organized by Taylor have repeatedly faced venue cancellations due to external pressure from advocacy groups and local opposition citing concerns over hate speech. In February 2010, the event was canceled after the hosting venue in Washington, D.C., withdrew amid threats and protests, forcing relocation efforts that ultimately failed for that year.^[88] Similar issues arose in February 2011 when a Charlotte, North Carolina, hotel canceled a planned conference following public outcry, though Taylor proceeded with alternative arrangements elsewhere.^[89] In 2018, Taylor's group sued Tennessee state parks over a $3,500 security fee imposed for an American Renaissance conference at Montgomery Bell State Park, claiming it constituted discriminatory treatment; the suit sought to affirm equal access to public facilities for lawful assemblies.^[48] Despite such challenges, Taylor has invoked First Amendment defenses in public statements and legal filings, emphasizing that his presentations rely on empirical data from sources like government statistics rather than calls to harm, distinguishing them from unprotected speech. In March 2025, Taylor delivered a speech at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado, invited by the student-led Western Culture Club, after initial backlash prompted calls for rescission but university president John Marshall defended the event as a test of free speech principles.^[90] Approximately 80 attendees participated amid protests outside, with no disruptions reported inside the venue, underscoring institutional commitments to hosting controversial speakers when no direct threats were identified.^[68]

Recent Developments and Public Engagements

In December 2024, Taylor organized the annual American Renaissance conference at Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, Tennessee, drawing anti-fascist protesters who opposed the event as a gathering of white supremacists.^[49] The conference featured discussions on race and identity, with Taylor emphasizing racial differences, amid heightened security due to demonstrations.^[49] Following Donald Trump's victory in the November 2024 U.S. presidential election, Taylor described it as a "great victory" that demonstrated the ineffectiveness of labeling opponents as fascists or threats to democracy, signaling renewed confidence among white Americans in electoral politics.^[91] He highlighted potential advances in immigration restriction as aligning with realistic assessments of demographic challenges, though Taylor has historically avoided direct endorsements of candidates, prioritizing advocacy for white identity over partisan allegiance.^[92]^[91] In March 2025, Taylor delivered a speech titled "Divorce Papers for a Divided Nation" at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado, invited by a student group focused on Western culture, which sparked protests from students and community members decrying his views on racial segregation.^[90] University administrators defended the event as upholding free speech principles, despite backlash and restrictions on media access to protect attendees.^[90]^[93] Later in 2025, Taylor spoke at the inaugural conference of Patriot Front in Texas, associating with the group's efforts to promote white nationalist activism through public demonstrations and propaganda.^[69] In October 2025, he traveled to the United Kingdom to address the Patriotic Alternative conference, where he discussed remigration and European demographic trends, marking a rare international engagement amid ongoing scrutiny of far-right gatherings.^[69]^[94] These appearances underscored persistent opposition from anti-fascist monitors, who criticized British authorities for permitting his entry.^[69]

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The costs were estimated at $400 million per year, and in the state as a whole, half of all Medi-Cal (state welfare) births were to illegal immigrant mothers.
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Quotes by Jared Taylor (Author of Paved with Good Intentions)
[W]hen they are free to do so, most people avoid diversity. The scientific evidence suggests why: Human beings appear to have deeply-rooted tribal instincts.Missing: tribalism | Show results with:tribalism<|separator|>
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Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in ...
2004 edition by New Century Books, 421 pp., indexed, $15.95 (soft cover). Paved with Good Intentions. This is the book that established Jared Taylor as an ...
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Slovenia: A Wonderful White Country - American Renaissance
Jun 6, 2025 · Slovenia: A Wonderful White Country. Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, June 6, 2025. Unspoiled by immigration, it plans to stay that way.
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There's No Taboo Against Studying Race and IQ, by Jared Taylor
Apr 25, 2024 · I recommend it.” That would be less shocking than saying, “Well you know, the reason Africa is such a mess is because blacks have lower IQs — ...
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American Renaissance's Jared Taylor Goes Full Anti-Semite
Aug 26, 2016 · Alternative Right, anti-semitism, White Nationalism. American Renaissance's Jared Taylor Goes Full Anti-Semite. August 26, 2016 ...
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When Is It Antisemitic? - American Renaissance
May 22, 2023 · Then there's Amy Wax, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School whom Jared Taylor ... It's not antisemitic to criticize them.<|separator|>
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American Renaissance - Southern Poverty Law Center
Founded by Jared Taylor in 1990, the New Century Foundation is a self-styled think tank that promotes pseudo-scientific studies and research.
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Jared Taylor: Academic Racist - ADL
Feb 13, 2014 · Though Taylor denies that he is a white supremacist, he focuses on how blacks lag behind whites academically due to alleged racial differences ...<|control11|><|separator|>
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Schism over Anti-Semitism Divides Key White Nationalist Group ...
Aug 11, 2006 · It's not clear how the situation will wind up. Taylor has now publicly rejected anti-Semitic views, but he hasn't banned anti-Semites from his ...Missing: distraction | Show results with:distraction
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White Nationalist Conference Ponders Whether Jews and Nazis ...
Mar 3, 2006 · Jared is Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance magazine. ... antisemitism “may be related to his wife, who some in the movement ...
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Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America: Jared Taylor ...
It is fitting to begin our interviews with Jared Taylor, the founder and chief editor of American Renaissance magazine.
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Why I Am (Reluctantly) Voting For Trump - American Renaissance
Sep 13, 2020 · A small step, but is there any other Republican who would do this? Speaking of Republicans, they have evolved into the de facto white party, ...
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Donald Trump and the White Nationalists | The New Yorker
Aug 24, 2015 · Evan Osnos goes on the Presidential campaign trail with Trump, whose immigration ideas have made him the top pick of the Tea Party and white ...
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A leading white nationalist says it plainly: Trump's victory was about ...
Nov 21, 2016 · Jared Taylor, the editor of the white nationalist journal American Renaissance, believes African Americans are threat to American society.
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Demography Is Still Destiny - American Renaissance
Nov 11, 2024 · It's silly to pretend the GOP represents white interests. We are for Republicans only to the extent that they are better for us than Democrats.
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How the Races Will Vote - American Renaissance
Oct 25, 2024 · It gives Donald Trump just a six-point lead among white voters, but Kamala Harris leads by 72 percent to 17 percent among blacks. President ...
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Conservatives Aren't Opposed to Identity Politics
Jul 24, 2018 · Instead, Congressman Paul Ryan and Senator Tim Scott are trying to beat back nationalist and Identitarian tendencies within the Republican Party ...
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If We Do Nothing, a Review - American Renaissance
Jan 11, 2018 · White nationalists and identitarians know it as well, and it is one reason why Jared Taylor and American Renaissance are criticized ... < New GOP ...
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Irreconcilable Differences - American Renaissance
Aug 10, 2006 · ... Jared Taylor now must finally come to terms with the split. ... He urges members of the CCC to remind the Republican Party that it should be “ ...
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Eleventh American Renaissance Conference (2013)
April 5 – 7, 2013, near Nashville, Tennessee. The West faces many crises, but the greatest is the crisis of race. In virtually every Western country, ...
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Jared Taylor Conference Speech, AmRen 2023
Dec 13, 2023 · Jared Taylor Conference Speech, AmRen 2023. AR Staff, American Renaissance, December 13, 2023. “Reflections on 30 Years of Racial Activism.”.
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As white nationalists gather again near Nashville, they say racial ...
Nov 12, 2021 · A white nationalist group has hosted a conference at Tennessee's Montgomery Bell State Park for nearly a decade. As they gather again this ...
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White nationalists American Renaissance sue Tennessee state parks
Sep 7, 2018 · A white nationalist think tank that holds its annual conference in Tennessee has sued the state in federal court over being charged a security fee for an ...
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Inside the influential white-supremacist conference that calls ...
Dec 2, 2024 · I also had questions for Jared Taylor about his ties to neo-Nazis. “I don't even know a neo-Nazi,” he claimed. But among this year's ...
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Interviews with Jared Taylor - American Renaissance
American Renaissance, founded by Jared Taylor and the New Century Foundation, is America's premiere online publication of race realist thought.
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Video Jared Taylor: Whites Deserve a Homeland - ABC News
Mar 21, 2017 · Editor of American Renaissance, Jared Taylor sits down with ABC News' Amna Nawaz on "Uncomfortable" for a blunt discussion of race and racism in America.Missing: appearances | Show results with:appearances
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Return to the Dark Ages - American Renaissance
Feb 19, 2010 · Jewish groups have brought pressure on the British government to enact laws to outlaw Holocaust denial so that Mr. Rudolf can either be ...
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[PDF] PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
Nevertheless, even as the nation becomes a mix of many races, the quintessential racial divide in America-the subject of this book-is between black and white.
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Straight Talk - Chronicles Magazine
Apr 21, 2022 · [Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America, by Jared Taylor (New York: Carroll & Graf) 416 pp., $22.95].<|separator|>
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White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
$$22.95 In stockJared Taylor offers the reader an open, honest, and frank discussion of the reality of race and race relations in America today.
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White Identity by Jared Taylor | eBook | Barnes & Noble®
Apr 8, 2020 · In White Identity Taylor steers even further into forbidden territory, as he systematically marshals the data to show that: -People of all races ...
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If We Do Nothing - American Renaissance Store
If We Do Nothing is a collection of Jared Taylor's best essays and reviews. Mr. Taylor outlines the basic truths of race realism and brilliantly dissects today ...
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Why Is the White Man Such an Easy Touch? - American Renaissance
Sep 29, 2023 · Subscribe to future audio versions of AmRen articles here. This article is adapted from a speech Jared Taylor gave to an activist group in ...
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[PDF] From Banners to Bullets: the InternatIonal IdentItarIan movement
The investigation reveals extremist ties, including to the proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group,. National Action. It also reveals that UK GI activists are ...
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Jared Taylor's White Identity: What's In It For Jews? - VDARE.com
May 15, 2011 · Taylor has worked out strong justifications for why a white identity movement would be good for average, and particularly good for below- ...
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How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry ...
Sep 28, 2020 · We found that White nationalists use genetic ancestry tests to align White identity with ideas of racial purity and diversity.Missing: heritability | Show results with:heritability
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It Isn't Over For America - American Renaissance
May 21, 2024 · Taylor's opinion deserves serious attention. This is a man who has worked tirelessly to awaken white Americans to the problems they face. He is ...
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[PDF] The Intellectual Origins of the Alt-Right - YorkSpace
The dissertation defines the Alternative Right by its axioms of the right to difference, the primacy of cultural metapolitics and hierarchical individualism.Missing: upbringing | Show results with:upbringing
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The Trickle-Up Theory Of White Nationalist Thought - NPR
Aug 17, 2017 · Jared Taylor was not in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. But Taylor, one of the leading voices for white rights in the country, ...
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Jared Taylor Defends a White-Majority Country — in 1996
Nov 15, 2024 · It's a very rare niche that Jared Taylor seems to have filled. There is a small possible intersection between Jews and white advocacy, but 90% ...
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Setting the Record Straight: Longtime Partner of Jared Taylor ...
May 4, 2016 · In the past, Taylor has distanced himself from anti-Semites and been heavily criticized in the movement for it. Rich, though not an anti ...
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White supremacist's talk draws backlash at Colorado Mesa University
Mar 27, 2025 · The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the speaker, Jared Taylor, as the 1990 founder of the New Century Foundation, “a self-styled think ...
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White Nationalist Jared Taylor speaks at Colorado Mesa University
Mar 28, 2025 · Eighty tickets with the title, “Jared Taylor: Divorce Papers for a Divided Nation” were distributed for a speech that brought a lot of controversy to Grand ...Missing: March | Show results with:March
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Notorious US racist allowed into UK for nazi conference | Searchlight
Oct 1, 2025 · Jared Taylor One of America's most notorious racists has been allowed into Britain to speak at a conference staged by unrepentant nazis, ...
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Jared Taylor full speech Patriotic Alternative National Conference ...
Oct 13, 2025 · Jared Taylor is the editor of American Renaissance an online magazine that has been described as the leading intellectual journal.
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Jared Taylor - Southern Poverty Law Center
Taylor also hosts the annual American Renaissance Conference, where racist intellectuals rub shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists. In ...
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The Nativist Lobby: Three Faces of Intolerance
Feb 1, 2009 · Over the years, his closest friend on the white nationalist scene seems to have been Jared Taylor, the man who began publishing American ...
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Hate Beyond Borders: The Internationalization of White Supremacy
Sep 17, 2019 · This report exposes the mutual influence of white supremacists in the United States, Canada and Europe and highlights the danger of these connections.<|separator|>
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How Free Speech Warriors Mainstreamed White Supremacists - GQ
May 8, 2018 · Last month, suit-and-tie white supremacist Jared Taylor, founder of ... high-IQ Ashkenazi Jews, Asians, and others edging whites out of ...
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Essential Writings On Race - Samuel T. Francis | PDF - Scribd
Rating 4.2 (5) explicitly racial terms. This article is adapted from remarks Sam Francis made at the first. American Renaissance conference in May 1994. Dinesh DSouza attended ...
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Legacy of Samuel T. Francis - Republicans United
Feb 14, 2023 · ... Sam Francis was one of the most important right-wing thinkers and ... He was one of a few individuals to speak at every American Renaissance ...
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Essential Writings on Race - American Renaissance Store
$$13.95 In stockLovingly edited and introduced by Jared Taylor, Essential Writings on Race is one of the central texts of American race-realist thought.
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We Are Not 'White Supremacist Groups' - The New York Times
and won. Do the ...
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Energized By Trump's Win, White Nationalists Gather To 'Change ...
Nov 20, 2016 · ... Peter Brimelow, Kevin MacDonald, Jason Jorjani, and Jared Taylor. Richard Spencer addresses a room of press and conference attendees at a ...
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The Alt Right: Not Anonymous Losers—But Winners With Something ...
Apr 8, 2016 · Not only did Milo reject the usual charges of racism, anti-Semitism etc.—he pushed back against the far more damaging charge the Alt Right is ...<|control11|><|separator|>
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Polemics & Exchanges: August 2022 - Chronicles Magazine
Aug 1, 2022 · Stefan Molyneux and Jared Taylor are modern libertarians who ... It's like anti-Semitism, except in the West, Russia-bashing is ...
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White nationalist Jared Taylor sues Twitter over ban - BBC
Feb 22, 2018 · White nationalist Jared Taylor is suing Twitter after the social network banned his account as part of a crackdown on abusive content.
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Twitter Beats Censorship Lawsuit by Banned White Nationalist
Aug 23, 2018 · Twitter Beats Censorship Lawsuit by Banned White Nationalist. Jared Taylor claimed platform's free-speech pledge is a fraud; Court says online ...
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Section 230: Twitter Obtains a Significant Legal Victory on Content ...
Aug 30, 2018 · In the lawsuit, Taylor alleges he was wrongly banned from Twitter in December 2017 when Twitter permanently suspended Taylor and his ...
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American Renaissance Conference Cancelled
Feb 15, 2010 · The conferences are usually a major hit in white nationalist circles and feature as speakers prominent white supremacists, academic racists and ...Missing: venue | Show results with:venue
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Hotel cancels white supremacist event - UPI.com
Feb 1, 2011 · A white supremacist says he still plans to hold a weekend conference in Charlotte, N.C. despite a local hotel's decision to back out of ...
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Colorado Mesa president defends white supremacist's right to speak
Mar 27, 2025 · White supremacist Jared Taylor was invited to speak at Colorado Mesa University, igniting weeks of pushback from the campus community.
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Trump Has Won a Great Victory - American Renaissance
Nov 7, 2024 · In 2016, calling Donald Trump a racist and a white supremacist didn't stop him. This time, Democrats thought that calling him a fascist and a ...
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White Nationalist Jared Taylor Was 'Delighted' By Trump's Election
Dec 4, 2024 · White nationalist Jared Taylor was "delighted" by Trump's election because "for many whites, this election renewed their faith in America."
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MEDIA PROHIBITED FROM JARED TAYLOR EVENT - The Criterion
Mar 27, 2025 · As the voice of the students, it's our duty to report the happenings of both campus life and news in a timely manner. In regard to the Jared ...
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Jared Taylor interview Patriotic Alternative Conference 2025
Oct 11, 2025 · Jared Taylor interview Patriotic Alternative Conference 2025. 38 views · 12 days ago ...more. PATRIOTIC ALTERNATIVE SCOTLAND BOLLOX CAMPAIGN.<|separator|>