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In Depth Interview with Professor Kevin MacDonald

Peter Schaenk brings out the best in Dr. MacDonald as he discusses why Whites are in the predicament we are in and shares his many scholarly insights for regaining our self determination, the sound quality of this rivetting interview is improved through the use of a decent set of headphones — admin

Kevin MacDonald interviewed by Peter Schaenk

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Voice of Reason radio host Peter Schaenk returns Wednesday, November 19, 2008 with an interview with a special guest: psychology professor and author Kevin MacDonald.

Kevin MacDonald 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 a “group evolutionary strategy”. MacDonald’s most controversial claim is his assertion that a suite of traits that he attributes to Jews, including higher-than-average 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.

MacDonald was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and raised in a traditional Roman Catholic family. He entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison and became an activist in the anti-war movement from about 1965 to 1975. It was during this period that he came into contact with the East Coast Jewish background of the radical leftist movement then shaking the Establishment of America. Much later, during the 1990s, when he was formulating his idea of ethnic groups sustaining themselves with group evolutionary strategies, he began to reflect on his experiences during those days as an activist in “the movement”, in which he was in regular contact with an ethnic group that had relatively little history in the upper Midwest America of which he was a part. These reflections sparked his interest in Jewish intellectual and political movements.

MacDonald became a philosophy major and lost his radicalism. He embarked on a career as a Jazz pianist, but by the late 1970s had abandoned it in favor of academia. While in graduate school, he became attracted to E.O. Wilson’s theory of sociobiology.

MacDonald is also the author of seven books on evolutionary psychology and child development. He received his B.A. in philosophy 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.

Since assuming his position at Cal State–Long Beach, his research has focused on developing evolutionary perspectives in developmental psychology and personality theory, the origins and maintenance of monogamous marriage in Western Europe, and ethnic relations (human group evolutionary strategies). He is the author of more than 100 scholarly papers and reviews.

The books MacDonald is most known for are his trilogy on Judaism: A People That Shall Dwell Alone, Separation and Its Discontents, and, his most popular and most controversial, The Culture of Critique. A collection of MacDonald’s essays in book form, Cultural Insurrections, has been published by The Occidental Press. I have posted the links to all of these books below.

 

Some articles by Kevin MacDonald:

Understanding Jewish Influence I: Background Traits for Jewish Activism

Understanding Jewish Influence II: Zionism and the Internal Dynamics of Judaism

Understanding Jewish Influence III: Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement

American Transcendentalism: An indigenous culture of critique [a very interesting article on the Puritan heritage in shaping the American Transcendentalist activist movement and American life in general]

The Neoconservative Mind. A review of the book They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, by Jacob Heilbrunn

Jewish Involvement in Influencing US Immigration Policy, 1881-1965

Was the 1924 Immigration Cut-off “Racist”?

Immigration and the Unmentionable Question of Ethnic Interests

Psychology and White Ethnocentrism

The Utter Normality of Ethnonationalism – Except for Whites

What Makes Western Culture Unique?

Why We Write

 

Sites and info:

Personal site: kevinmacdonald.net

Blog: Kevin MacDonald Blog

Buy books: A People That Shall Dwell Alone, Separation and Its Discontents, The Culture of Critique, and Cultural Insurrections
Hear more Peter Schaenk at Reason Radio Network

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