Kevin B. MacDonald

Kevin B. MacDonald, (born January 24, 1944) is a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, best known for his use of evolutionary psychology to inform his study of Judaism as being what he claims is a "group evolutionary strategy". MacDonald's most controversial claim is his assertion that a suite of traits which he attributes to Jews, including higher-than-average verbal intelligence and ethnocentricism, have been eugenically derived throughout history to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete non-Jews for resources while undermining the power and self-confidence of the White majorities in Europe and America.^[1] There are some white supremacists who support the views of MacDonald because of his opinions about Jews, but MacDonald denies having any affiliation or contact with any of these extremist groups.^[2] Download high resolution version (753x815, 91 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (753x815, 91 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Psychology (from Greek: ψυχή, psukhē, spirit, soul; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is an academic/ applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. ... California State University, Long Beach (also known as Long Beach State, Cal State Long Beach, CSULB, LBSU or The Beach) is the second largest campus of the California State University system and the third largest university in the state of California in terms of enrollment. ... Evolutionary psychology (abbreviated ev-psych or EP) is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain certain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as evolved adaptations, i. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ethnocentrism (Greek ethnos nation + -centrism) is a set of beliefs or practices based on the view that ones own group is the center of everything. ... Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ... A family of white people Whites redirects here. ... White supremacy is the variety of white nationalism that believes the white race should rule over other races. ...

Early years

MacDonald was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and raised in a traditionalist Roman Catholic family^[3]. His father was a policeman and his mother was a secretary. He went to parochial schools and played basketball in high school. He entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison and became an activist in the anti-war movement from about 1965 to 1975.^[4] During this period, he perceived the East Coast Jewish origins of the majority of the movement there (Culture of Critique, p 104), which motivated his interest in Jewish intellectual movements. Location of Oshkosh, Wisconsin City hall Downtown Oshkosh at U.S. Route 45 Oshkosh Public Museum Mouth of the Fox River into Lake Winnebago. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... For the band, see The Police. ... The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as UW–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, or UW) is a highly selective public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin. ... The global peace movement refers to a sense of common purpose among organizations that seek to end wars and minimize inter-human violence, usually through pacifism, non-violent resistance, diplomacy, boycott, moral purchasing and demonstrating. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The Culture of Critique series comprises Kevin B. MacDonalds principal writings on Judaism and Jewish culture: MacDonald, K. B. A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism As a Group Evolutionary Strategy, With Diaspora Peoples, (Praeger 1994) ISBN 0-595-22838-0 MacDonald, K. B. Separation and Its Discontents Toward...

MacDonald became a philosophy major and lost his radicalism.^[5] He embarked on a career as a Jazz pianist, but by the late 1970s had abandoned it in favour of academia.^[6] While in graduate school, he became attracted to E.O. Wilson's theory of sociobiology.^[7] He has two adult children from his first marriage. The philosopher Socrates about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court. ... Cover from album by Bud Powell. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, In the Western world, the focus shifted from the social activism of the sixties to social activities for ones own pleasure, save for environmentalism, which continued in a very visible way. ...

Professional background

MacDonald is the author of seven books on evolutionary psychology and child development and is the author or editor of over thirty academic articles in refereed journals. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966, and M.S. in biology from the University of Connecticut in 1976. He earned a Ph.D. in 1981 (Biobehavioral Sciences) from the University of Connecticut where he studied under Professor Benson E. Ginsburg, one of the founders and leaders of modern behavior genetics, as his advisor. His thesis was on the behavioral development of wolves and resulted in two publications: MacDonald, K. B., and Ginsburg, B. E. (1981). "Induction of normal behavior in wolves with restricted rearing." Behavioral and Neural Biology, 33, 133-162; MacDonald, K. B. (1983). "Development and stability of personality characteristics in prepubertal wolves." Journal of Comparative Psychology, 97, 99-106, 1983. The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as UW–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, or UW) is a highly selective public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... The University of Connecticut, commonly known as UConn, is the State of Connecticuts land-grant university. ...

He completed a post-doctoral fellowship with Ross Parke at the psychology department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983. His work there concerned rough and tumble play in children (he had two small boys at home at the time as well) and resulted in three publications: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), is the largest campus in the University of Illinois system. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• MacDonald, K. B., & Parke, R. D. (1984). "Bridging the gap: Parent-child play interactions and peer interactive competence." Child Development, 55, 1265-1277;
• MacDonald, K. B., & Parke, R. D. (1986). "Parent-child physical play: The effects of sex and age of children and parents." Sex Roles, 15, 367-378, 1986;
• MacDonald, K. B. (1987). "Parent-child physical play with rejected, neglected and popular boys." Developmental Psychology, 23, 705-711.

He served as Secretary-Archivist of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and was elected as a member of the executive board from 1995 to 2001. He was an editor of Population and Environment and is an associate editor of the journal Sexuality & Culture. He serves on the Advisory Board of The Occidental Quarterly, a journal that has been described by Max Blumenthal, writing on the website of The American Prospect magazine, as “the premier voice of the white-nationalist movement”^[8] and makes occasional contributions to VDARE.com, an immigration reductionist webzine. Peter Brimelow of VDARE denies it being a white nationalist webzine, but acknowledges having white nationalist writers amongst its contributors; he does not list MacDonald as one of these.^[9] The Human Behavior and Evolution Society, or HBES, is an interdisciplinary, international society of researchers, primarily from the social and biological sciences, who use modern evolutionary theory to help to discover human nature - including evolved emotional, cognitive and sexual adaptations. ... The Occidental Quarterly is a white nationalist journal that seeks to direct American conservatism in the direction of an Anglo-Saxon cultural and racialist ideology. ... The American Prospect is a monthly magazine which focuses on US politics and public policy. ... Peter Brimelow founder of VDARE VDARE.com, or VDARE, is a website that advocates reduced immigration into the United States. ... Immigration reduction refers to movements active within the United States that advocate a reduction in the amount of immigration allowed into the United States or other countries. ... A Webzine is an ezine hosted on the World Wide Web rather than in print. ... Peter Brimelow Peter Brimelow (born 1947) is a British-American financial journalist and author. ...

He has been with the Department of Psychology at California State University-Long Beach since 1985 and as a full professor since 1995.

Academic works addressing Judaism as a collective evolutionary strategy

For the main article, see The Culture of Critique series.

MacDonald is best known for his trilogy that analyzes Judaism and Jewish culture from the perspective of evolutionary psychology, comprising A People That Shall Dwell Alone (1994), Separation and Its Discontents (1998), and The Culture of Critique (1998). He proposes that Judaism is a group evolutionary strategy to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete non-Jews for resources. Using the term Jewish ethnocentrism, he argues that Judaism fosters in Jews a series of marked genetic traits, including above-average verbal intelligence and a strong tendency toward collectivist behavior. Download high resolution version (1289x801, 400 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (1289x801, 400 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... The Culture of Critique series comprises Kevin B. MacDonalds principal writings on Judaism and Jewish culture: MacDonald, K. B. A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism As a Group Evolutionary Strategy, With Diaspora Peoples, (Praeger 1994) ISBN 0-595-22838-0 MacDonald, K. B. Separation and Its Discontents Toward... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Secular Jewish culture embraces several related phenomena; above all, it is the culture of secular communities of Jewish people, but it can also include the cultural contributions of individuals who identify as secular Jews, or even those of religious Jews working in cultural areas not generally considered to be connected... Evolutionary psychology (abbreviated ev-psych or EP) is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain certain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as evolved adaptations, i. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... In evolutionary biology, group selection refers to the idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow on groups, regardless of the fitness of individuals within that group. ...

Jewish role in facilitating mass immigration

Extreme right-wing groups and some members of the immigration reductionism movement ^[Who?] have long argued that there has been a significant or central Jewish role in facilitating mass immigration into the United States and other western nations. MacDonald echoed their claims, arguing that "the organized Jewish community" has been the single most important and powerful group in favor of unrestricted immigration to the United States, and that the community has been acting in its "own perceived collective interests," regardless of whether these are in conflict with the interests of other Americans.^[10] The immigration reduction movement is a movement active within the United States and elsewhere, which advocates for a reduction in the amount of immigration allowed into the United States or other countries. ...

MacDonald's main thesis centers on the period preceding the all-important 1965 Immigration Act when strict, country-of-origin based quotas existed, mostly favoring immigration from Europe. According to MacDonald, while most of the ethnic communities in that period were somewhat active in trying to affect the increase of immigration quotas from their own countries of origin (i.e. the Irish for immigration from Ireland, Greeks for immigration from Greece etc.), only the Jewish community activists were requesting (and ultimately obtained in 1965) the dismantling of country-of-origin quotas and an increase in immigration across the board.^{[citation needed]} This policy shift benefited primarily non-European immigration and had a profound impact on the U.S. demographics in the following decades.^{[citation needed]} He also contrasts U.S. immigration policy with the more restrictive immigration policies of Israel. [6] (Redirected from 1965 Immigration Act) The Immigration Act of 1965 (also known as the Hart-Celler Act) abolished the national-origin quotas that had been in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924. ...

He cites Leonard S. Glickman of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, who stated to an on-line Jewish journal that "The more diverse American society is the safer [Jews] are."[7][8] MacDonald expresses his opinions on immigration on the VDARE website: HIAS, also known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is America’s oldest international migration and refugee resettlement agency. ... Peter Brimelow founder of VDARE VDARE.com, or VDARE, is a website that advocates reduced immigration into the United States. ...

Why members of the Jewish community, which over so many centuries demonstrated such determination to preserve its distinctiveness, should have been so demonstrably active in preventing the preservation of the nation in which they find themselves, is an interesting question... Much of the effort was done more or less surreptitiously so as not to fan the flames of anti-Jewish sentiment.[9]

MacDonald also points out that even the Jewish activist Stephen Steinlight, who argues against mass immigration, does so on explicitly ethnocentric grounds: "Our present privilege, success, and power do not inure us from the effect of historical processes, and history has not come to an end, even in America."[10]

Conservative columnist and mathematics writer John Derbyshire criticizes this thesis in his review of The Culture of Critique in The American Conservative. He cites MacDonald's statement that it is in “the ethnic interests of white Americans to develop an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society.” and states: John Derbyshire (born June 3, 1945) is a British-born author who lives in the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 2002. ... The American Conservative (TAC) is a biweekly magazine founded by Scott McConnell, Pat Buchanan, and Taki Theodoracopulos, and edited by McConnell. ...

And on the point of Israel having something very much like the old American dispensation, I am unimpressed by MacDonald’s oft-repeated argument—it is a favorite with both Israelophobes and anti-Semites—that it is hypocritical for Jews to promote multiculturalism in the U.S. while wishing to maintain Jewish ethnic dominance in Israel. Unless you think that ethnic dominance, under appropriate restraining laws, is immoral per se—and I don’t, and Kevin MacDonald plainly doesn’t either—it can be the foundation of a stable and successful nation. A nation that can establish it and maintain it would be wise to do so. The USA was not able to maintain it because too many Americans—far more than three percent—came to think it violated Constitutional principles.[11]

In his reply to the review, MacDonald noted that Derbyshire explicitly acknowledged the fact that careers could be ended or severely harmed by criticism of the role of the Jewish community in American public life, and suggested that Derbyshire himself was frightened of running foul of "the Jew thing". He further claimed that Derbyshire

lives in a sort of childlike world in which Jewish interests are legitimate and where Jewish attempts to pursue their interests, though they may occasionally be irritating, are not really a cause for concern, much less malice.[12]

Race, culture, and intelligence

Like his fellow contributors to Vdare, MacDonald questions claims that racial differences are unimportant or illusory and that racial and cultural assimilation will be an easy process. He points to the phenomenon of popular scientists such as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, Leon Kamin, Steven Rose, and Jared Diamond, who were all born to Jewish parents, and who have been leading proponents of the view that there is no biological basis for race, and that variance between races in mean IQ is caused by environmental rather than hereditary factors. Peter Brimelow founder of VDARE VDARE.com, or VDARE, is a website that advocates reduced immigration into the United States. ... It has been suggested that Darwinian Fundamentalism be merged into this article or section. ... Richard Lewontin Richard Charles Dick Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. ... Leon J. Kamin (born December 29, 1927 in Taunton, Massachusetts) is an American psychologist. ... Steven Rose Steven P. Rose (born July 4, 1938 in London) is a professor of biology and neurobiology at the Open University and University of London. ... Jared Mason Diamond (b. ... IQ redirects here; for other uses of that term, see IQ (disambiguation). ...

See also: Race and intelligence.

Race and intelligence are broad terms with many meanings that are often used to describe and measure human beings. ...

Neoconservatism

MacDonald published an article in The Occidental Quarterly, a journal of opinion for self-described "white nationalists," on the alleged similarities between neoconservatism and several other possibly Jewish-dominated influential intellectual and political movements. He argues that "[t]aken as a whole, neoconservatism is an excellent illustration of the key traits behind the success of Jewish activism: ethnocentrism, intelligence and wealth, psychological intensity, and aggressiveness."[13] His general conclusions are that neoconservatism fits into a general pattern of twentieth-century Jewish intellectual and political activism. Since Leo Strauss, a philosophy professor, taught several of the putative founders of the neoconservatism, MacDonald concludes he is a central figure in the neo-conservative movement and sees him as "the quintessential rabbinical guru with devoted disciples". [14] The Occidental Quarterly is a white nationalist journal that seeks to direct American conservatism in the direction of an Anglo-Saxon cultural and racialist ideology. ... Neoconservatism is a political movement which has emerged in the 1960s, coalesced in the 1970s, and has significant presence in the administration of George W. Bush. ... Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of ones own culture. ... Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973), was a German-born political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical political philosophy. ...

MacDonald contends that, like Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxism, neoconservatism uses arguments that appeal to non-Jews, rather than appealing explicitly to Jewish interests. MacDonald argues that non-Jewish neo-conservatives like Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Donald Rumsfeld are examples of an ability to recruit prominent non-Jews while nevertheless preserving a Jewish core and an intense commitment to Jewish interests: "it makes excellent psychological sense to have the spokespeople for any movement resemble the people they are trying to convince."[15] He considers it significant that neoconservatism's commitment to mass immigration is uncharacteristic of past conservative thought and is identical to liberal Jewish opinion. Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud) May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939; (IPA: ) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods based on the work of Sigmund Freud. ... Marxism takes its name from the praxis (the synthesis of philosophy and political action) of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ... Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (born November 19, 1926) is an American conservative political scientist and member of the neoconservative movement. ... Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975–1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001–2006. ... This article discusses the history and development of various notions of liberalism in the United States. ...

Criticism

Academic criticism

In a letter to Slate Magazine, Harvard University psychology professor Steven Pinker maintained that MacDonald's theses were unable to pass the threshold of attention-worthiness and/or peer-approval: Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Steven Pinker Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a prominent Canadian-born American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and popular science writer known for his spirited and wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. ...

MacDonald's ideas, as presented in summaries that would serve as a basis for further examination, do not pass that threshold, for many reasons: 1. By stating that Jews promulgate scientific hypotheses because they are Jewish, he is engaging in ad hominem argumentation that is outside the bounds of normal scientific discourse and an obvious waste of time to engage. MacDonald has already announced that I will reject his ideas because I am Jewish, so what's the point of replying to them? 2. MacDonald's main axioms - group selection of behavioral adaptations, and behaviorally relevant genetic cohesiveness of ethnic groups -- are opposed by powerful bodies of data and theory, which Tooby, Cosmides, and many other evolutionary psychologists have written about in detail. Of course any assumption can be questioned, but there are no signs that MacDonald has taken on the burden of proof of showing that the majority view is wrong. 3. MacDonald's various theses, even if worthy of scientifically debate individually, collectively add up to a consistently invidious portrayal of Jews, couched in value-laden, disparaging language. It is impossible to avoid the impression that this is not an ordinary scientific hypothesis. 4. The argument, as presented in the summaries, fail two basic tests of scientific credibility: a control group (in this case, other minority ethnic groups), and a comparison with alternative hypotheses (such as Thomas Sowell's convincing analysis of "middlemen minorities" such as the Jews, presented in his magisterial study of migration, race, conquest, and culture). [16], [17] It has been suggested that Personal attack be merged into this article or section. ... Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell (born 30 June 1930), is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. ...

John Tooby, the founder of MacDonald's field (evolutionary psychology), criticized MacDonald in an article for Salon.com in 2000. He wrote, ""MacDonald's ideas — not just on Jews — violate fundamental principles of the field." Screenshot of Salon. ...

MacDonald has replied to Tooby, Pinker, Schatz, and Lieberman on his website.[18] In May, 2006, MacDonald responded in FrontPage Magazine to charges of anti-Semitism [19].

Dan Kriegman, founder of the Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England produced a 50-page analysis criticizing MacDonald's work as "pseudo-scientific theorizing." He wrote that MacDonald "believes his own nonsense." Kriegman remarked in an email, "MacDonald is not the first person to avoid the narcissistic injury of having his ideas rejected by concluding that there was a conspiracy against him rather than becoming aware of the substandard nature [as evidenced in his trilogy] of his thinking."^[11]

A History Professor at MacDonald's university, Don Schwarz called MacDonald's claims about Jewish history "unsupportable." Philosophy Professor Warren Weinstein said that MacDonald's work was not science at all, but "something else, masquerading as science." "It is in the great tradition of Nazi and Stalinist science which clearly and scientifically proved that their respective insanities were objectively true and defensible," he added.^[11] Jewish history is the history of the Jewish people, faith, and culture. ...

Academic Jaff Schatz has accused MacDonald of misrepresenting and misusing his work [20]. David Lieberman, who has a PhD in musicology from Brandeis University, has published a paper alleging that MacDonald has distorted evidence and chosen evidence selectively for rhetorical purposes [21]. Musicology is reasoned discourse concerning music (Greek: μουσικη = music and λογος = word or reason). In other words: the whole body of systematized knowledge about music which results from the application of a scientific method of investigation or research, or of philosophical speculation and rational systematization to the facts, the processes and the... Brandeis University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. ...

John Hartung, the associate editor of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and an associate professor of anesthesiology at the State University of New York said that MacDonald's The Culture of Critique was "quite disturbing, seriously misinformed about evolutionary genetics, and suffering from a huge blind spot about the nature of Christianity."^[11]

Ties with white supremacists and neo-nazis

MacDonald has been criticized by his colleagues for ties to white supremacist, anti-semitic, and neo-nazi oragnizations.^[11] For example, the Southern Poverty Law Center criticized him for holding panels and working with Virginia Abernethy, a self-described "white seperatist" and member of the white supremacist organization Council of Conservative Citizens which describes blacks as "a retrograde species of humanity" among other things. MacDonald has also been criticized for publishing in, and receiving a 10,000 dollar grant from, the white nationalist publication The Occidental Quarterly.^[11] In October 2004, he accepted the Jack London Literary Prize from The Occidental Quarterly, using the award ceremony as an occasion to argue for the need for a "white ethnostate" to maintain high racial birthrates. In his acceptance speech, he stated, "The best way to preserve ethnic interests is to defend an ethnostate — a nation that is explicitly intended to preserve the ethnic interests of its citizens." According to MacDonald, one of the functions of such a state would be to exclude non-European immigrants who are attracted to the state by its wealth and prosperity. At the conclusion of his speech, he remarked, "The alternative faced by Europeans throughout the Western world is to place themselves in a position of enormous vulnerability in which their destinies will be determined by other peoples, many of whom hold deep historically conditioned hatreds toward them. Europeans’ promotion of their own displacement is the ultimate foolishness — an historical mistake of catastrophic proportions."^[12] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American non-profit legal organization, whose stated purpose is to combat racism and promote civil rights through research, education, and litigation. ... Virginia Abernethy (born in 1934) is an American professor (emeritus) of psychiatry and anthropology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Occidental Quarterly is a white nationalist journal that seeks to direct American conservatism in the direction of an Anglo-Saxon cultural and racialist ideology. ...

MacDonald testified in defense of convicted holocaust denier David Irving, where he alleged that the suppression of Irving's work was "an example of Jewish tactics for combating anti-Semitism."^[11] MacDonald said he was an "agnostic" in regards to the Holocaust. MacDonald's testimony caused a backlash among his colleagues. Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ... ...

MacDonald has an extensive following among white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Neo-nazi and former KKK leader, David Duke praises MacDonald's work in his autobiography, where Duke explains how he came to be an anti-Semite.^[11] Neo-Nazi Victor Gerhard wrote in a 2003 E-mail exchange that MaDonald's The Culture of Critique "is completely true; that to rail against blacks and Hispanics without mentioning Jews is like complaining about the symptoms and not the disease."^[11] When MacDonald won his award from the Occidental Quarterly, the ceremony was attended by David Duke; Don Black, the founder of white supremacist hate site Stormfront; Jamie Kelso, a senior moderator at Stormfront; and the head of the neo-Nazi National Vanguard, Kevin Alfred Strom.^[11] In 2005, Kelso told the Occidental Report that he was meeting up with MacDonald to conduct business. MacDonald is also featured in the Stormfront member Brian Jost's anti-immigrant film "The Line in the Sand", where he blamed Jews for destroying the European domination of America through their liberal pro-immigration views.^[11] White supremacy is the variety of white nationalism that believes the white race should rule over other races. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a candidate in presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Stormfront, often spelt storm front may refer to: A weather front Storm Front (album), by Billy Joel Stormfront Studios, a video game developer Storm Front (science fiction novel), the first in the Dresden series by Jim Butcher StormFront FE, a web based client connection FE for Simutronics MMORPGs Stormfront (website...

MacDonald has been criticized by many of his colleagues for violating the American Psychological Association's ethical principles, which require its members to "take all reasonable steps to prevent the misuse or misrepresentation of their work."^[11] In response, MacDonald added the following disclaimer to his website: "nothing on this website should be interpreted to suggest that I condone white racial superiority, genocide, Nazism, or Holocaust denial."

Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center told the Los Angeles Times, "Not since Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' have anti-Semites had such a comprehensive reference guide to what's 'wrong with Jews.' His work is widely advertised and touted on white supremacist websites and sold by neo-Nazi outfits like National Vanguard Books, which considers them 'the most important books of the last 100 years.' "^[13] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American non-profit legal organization, whose stated purpose is to combat racism and promote civil rights through research, education, and litigation. ... The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ...

MacDonald and David Irving

MacDonald testified on behalf of David Irving in the unsuccessful lawsuit he brought against Deborah Lipstadt over her description of him as a Holocaust denier. The testimony drew on MacDonald's theories of inter-group conflict and questioned whether Irving's book should have been dropped by St. Martin's Press.^{[citation needed]} MacDonald alleged Irving's book on Goebbels was rescinded by St. Martin's Press not because of its scientific merit but because of pressure from "certain Jewish ethnic activist organizations," "newspaper columnists," and "people like Deborah Lipstadt."^{[citation needed]} MacDonald has defended himself against criticism of his action by arguing that he acted from a concern for academic freedom and that he would willingly testify on behalf of any Jewish scholar subject to similar pressures for his views.^{[citation needed]} David Irving, 2003 David John Cawdell Irving (born March 24, 1938) is a British writer specializing in the military history of World War II. He is the author of 30 books, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitlers War (1977), Uprising (1981), Churchills War (1987), and Goebbels — Mastermind... Lipstadts book: Denying The Holocaust Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947, New York City) is an American historian and author of the book Denying the Holocaust. ... Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ...

Discussion of the Irving case on MacDonald's website

Books and monographs

Main article: The Culture of Critique series

• MacDonald, K. B. Understanding Jewish Influence: A Study in Ethnic Activism, with an Introduction by Samuel Francis, (Occidental Quarterly November, 2004) ISBN 1-59368-017-1 Introduction online
• Burgess, R. L. & MacDonald, K. B. (Eds.) Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development, 2nd ed., (Sage 2004) ISBN 0-7619-2790-5
• MacDonald, K. B. The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements, (Praeger 1998) ISBN 0-275-96113-3 (Preface online)
• MacDonald, K. B. Separation and Its Discontents Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism, (Praeger 1998) ISBN 0-275-94870-6
• MacDonald, K. B. A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism As a Group Evolutionary Strategy, With Diaspora Peoples, (Praeger 1994) ISBN 0-595-22838-0
• MacDonald, K. B. (Ed.), Parent-child Play: Descriptions and Implications,. (State University of New York Press 1993)
• MacDonald, K. B. (Ed.) Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development, (Springer-Verlag 1988)
• MacDonald, K. B. Social and Personality Development: An Evolutionary Synthesis (Plenum 1988)

The Culture of Critique series comprises Kevin B. MacDonalds principal writings on Judaism and Jewish culture: MacDonald, K. B. A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism As a Group Evolutionary Strategy, With Diaspora Peoples, (Praeger 1994) ISBN 0-595-22838-0 MacDonald, K. B. Separation and Its Discontents Toward... Samuel Todd Francis (April 29, 1947 – February 15, 2005) was a nationally syndicated paleoconservative columnist known for his opposition to immigration, multiculturalism, and his involvement in debates concerning other controversial issues of the day. ... The Occidental Quarterly is a white nationalist journal that seeks to direct American conservatism in the direction of an Anglo-Saxon cultural and racialist ideology. ...

References

1. ^ MacDonald, Kevin (2004). Understanding Jewish Influence. Washington Summit Publishers. 
2. ^ Uncommon Denominator. Commonweal Institute (August 2006).
3. ^ George Michael, Professor Kevin MacDonald's critique of Judaism, Journal of Church and State September 22, 2006 [1]
4. ^ George Michael, Professor Kevin MacDonald's critique of Judaism, Journal of Church and State September 22, 2006 [2]
5. ^ George Michael, Professor Kevin MacDonald's critique of Judaism, Journal of Church and State September 22, 2006 [3]
6. ^ George Michael, Professor Kevin MacDonald's critique of Judaism, Journal of Church and State September 22, 2006 [4]
7. ^ George Michael, Professor Kevin MacDonald's critique of Judaism, Journal of Church and State September 22, 2006 [5]
8. ^ Max Blumenthal, White Noise, The American Prospect, web exclusive, 2006. Accessed 28 October 2006.
9. ^ Peter Brimelow, Is VDARE.COM “White Nationalist”?, VDARE.COM, July 24, 2006. Accessed 28 October 2006.
10. ^ MacDonald, Kevin (June 19, 2004). Was the 1924 Immigration Cut-off "Racist"?. VDare.com.
11. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1337 Southern Poverty Law Center: Promoting Hate
12. ^ MacDonald, Kevin (October 31, 2004). Can the Jewish Model Help the West Survive?. kevinmacdonald.net.
13. ^

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External links

MacDonald's website

• Official website; see also [22]
  • Summaries and Reviews of MacDonald's books as collected by Kevin MacDonald
  • MacDonald's reasons for testifying for David Irving as given by Kevin MacDonald
  • MacDonald replies to Lieberman, December 13, 2003 on Evolutionary Psychology email list and to Jaff Schatz, h-antisemitism, Dec. 10, 1999
  • Replies to Tooby and Pinker
  • Newspaper article on MacDonald and Irving, and MacDonald and Evolutionary Psychology
  • Jewish Involvement in Shaping American Immigration Policy, 1881-1965: A Historical Review

Criticisms of MacDonald's work

• Slate:"Evolutionary Psychology's Anti-Semite"
• Open letter by Judith Shulevitz to John Tooby about MacDonald
• Scholarship as an Exercise in Rhetorical Strategy: A Case Study of Kevin MacDonald's Research Techniques

Praise of MacDonald's work

• Dialogue on MacDonald's work at online magazine Jewcy

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Libel case

• MacDonald's testimony in Irving libel case