E. Michael Jones
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In the fall of 1980, E. Michael Jones was an assistant professor of American Literature at St. Mary’s College. After receiving his Ph.D. from Temple University in 1979, Jones had moved his wife and two children to South Bend, Indiana to begin what he thought was going to be a career in academic life. But God had other plans. One year into the six years of his tenure track position, Jones got fired because of his position on abortion. Getting fired for being against abortion at what called itself a Catholic college was something his professors at Temple found difficult to understand. Taking his cue from their incomprehension, Jones decided to abandon academe and start a magazine instead. Initially known as Fidelity and now as Culture Wars, that magazine set out to explore the disarray in the Catholic Church that led to his firing. Over the course of the next few years, Jones and a host of like-minded writers began to uncover the sad story of the subversion of the Catholic faith at the hands of fellow Catholics in the years following the Second Vatican Council. In an article which has since become a classic, William Coulson described how Carl Rogers used sensitivity training to destroy the Immaculate Heart nuns in Los Angeles. Jones documented Rev. Theodore Hesburgh’s alienation of Notre Dame from the Catholic faith and Hesburgh’s collaboration with the Rockefellers to undermine Church teaching on contraception which led to that theft of Church property. Jones’s expose of Medjugorje in 1988 caused massive shock waves and equally massive defections from the subscriber base. Then in the early ‘90s Jones was appointed the biographer of John Cardinal Krol, then archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, where Jones had grown up. After years of archival research, Jones told the real story of what happened to the Catholic Church in America during the 1960s with the publication of John Cardinal Krol and the Cultural Revolution. What previously looked like a civil war in the Church turned out to be a lot like Bismarck’s Kulturkampf of the 1870s in Germany. The similarities persuaded Jones to change the name of the magazine in the mid-1990s to Culture Wars, his translation of Kulturkampf. Since that time Culture Wars has become the world’s main resource in understanding how cultural warfare has advanced the interests of the American Empire and its systems of political control. In 2015 Fidelity Press published David Wemhoff’s book John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and the American Proposition, which explains how Murray collaborated with Henry Luce, head of the Time/Life Empire, and C.D. Jackson of the CIA to infiltrate the Second Vatican Council and changes the Church’s teaching on the relationship between Church and State. Jones’s book Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control in collaboration with the Polish Bishops’ pastoral led to the complete rout of what the bishops called “gender ideology” in Poland. In the past year, Jones has spoken on this and related topics in the United States, London, Berlin, Dar es Salaam, Musoma, Tehran, and Buenos Aires. Jones’s trip to Tanzania led to the newly released book The Broken Pump in Tanzania: Julius Nyerere and the Collapse of Development Economics.
Books
Walking with a Bible and a Gun
Walking with a Bible and a Gun: The Rise, Fall & Return of American Identity - by Dr. E. Michael Jones - is a provocative cultural and historical analysis of the American character, tracing its evolution from Puritan beginnings to modern identity crises. Challenging mainstream narratives, Jones explores how Protestant theology, frontier mythology, and Enlightenment ideals fused to form the American psyche—often through violence, displacement, and religious zealotry. He examines foundational myths, from “city on a hill” idealism to the dark undercurrents of racial and religious conflict, while arguing that Protestantism’s decline has left a moral and cultural vacuum increasingly filled by nihilism and identity politics. Spanning the Salem witch trials, the creation of “whiteness,” and the legacy of figures like Emerson, Jefferson, and Clint Eastwood, the book confronts controversial issues head-on, including Critical Race Theory, Jewish influence in American culture, and the theological roots of American exceptionalism. Jones draws heavily from Catholic tradition to argue for a reinvigorated and unified American identity grounded in spiritual truth rather than ideological fragmentation. By linking historical moments to theological movements, Walking With a Bible and a Gun offers a sweeping yet intimate examination of the forces shaping America’s past, present, and uncertain future. Will the nation reclaim its soul—or continue its descent into cultural dissolution?
The slaughter of cities
"Melior speramus, resurgens cineribus." We hope for better things, rising from the ashes. This is the motto of the city of Detroit, which was coined by Fr. Gabriel Richard whose parish church of Ste. Anne's was destroyed in the great fire which burned Detroit on June 11, 1805. Ever wonder how our once great cities fell into such disrepair? How were large parts of Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago transformed from vibrant communities of beautiful homes where people prospered into dark, dangerous places full of deserted buildings where violent criminals have drained the lifeblood of the people who remain? It is said that if one does not know history, then one is doomed to repeat it. Fr. Richard responded to the great fire that almost completely destroyed Detroit by organizing local French farmers to take their canoes up and down the river to collect donations of food for the victims of the fire. When the canoes returned, a meal was cooked and served to the victims. some of the local men used fallen posts of the stockade to give shelter to the homeless. I believe that Mr. Jones is describing the slaughter of the cities not in a morbid sense, but rather in a sense of hope aimed toward their reconstruction. Only by learning how these once-great cities have been brought so low can we hope to see these cities rebuilt. The details of this book are grim, and Mr. Jones provides extensive documents which show the slaughter of the cities was deliberate. His thesis is that ethnic groups were broken apart because their rising political power threatened those who reigned over the U.S. This slaughter took many forms, one major method was the construction of our vast highway system, which was routed so to destroy the ethnic neighborhoods by knocking down their homes and scattering the residents. Through this targeted destruction of their neighborhoods, these people were robbed of their political power, a power which had resulted in the election of a Catholic president, John F. Kennedy in 1960. Mr. Jones book is a fascinating study of the destruction of the great cities of America, and should be required reading for anyone interested in rebuilding our once-great cities.
Degenerate moderns
In this groundbreaking new book, Jones shows how some of the major determining leaders in modern thought and culture have rationalized their own immoral behavior and projected it onto a universal canvas. The main thesis of this book is that, in the intellectual life, there are only two ultimate alternatives: either the thinker conforms desire to truth or he conforms truth to desire. In the last one hundred years, the western cultural elite embarked upon a project which entailed the reversal of the values of the intellectual life so that truth would be subjected to desire as the final criterion of intellectual value. In looking at recent biographies of such major moderns as Freud, Kinsey, Keynes, Margaret Mead, Picasso, and others, there is a remarkable similarity between their lives and thought. After becoming involved in sexual license early on, they invariably chose an ideology or art form which subordinated reality to the exigencies of their sexual misbehavior.
Libido dominandi
"Libido Dominandi is the definitive history of a sexual revolution, from 1773 to the present.". "Unlike the standard version of a sexual revolution, Libido Dominandi shows how sexual liberation was from its inception a form of control. The logic is clear enough: Those who wished to liberate man from the moral order needed to impose social controls as soon as they succeeded because liberated libido inevitably led to anarchy. Over the course of two hundred years, those techniques became more and more refined, eventuating in a world where people were controlled, not by military force, but by the skillful management of their passions. It was Aldous Huxley who wrote in his preface to the 1946 edition of Brave New World that "as political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase." This book is about the converse of that statement. It explains how the rhetoric of sexual freedom was used to engineer a system of covert political and social control. Over the course of the two-hundred-year span covered by this book, the development of technologies of communication, reproduction, and psychic control - including psychotherapy, behaviorism, advertising, sensitivity training, pornography, and, when push came to shove, plain old blackmail - allowed the Enlightenment and its heirs to turn Augustine's insight on its head and create masters out of men's vices. Libido Dominandi is the story of how that happened."--BOOK JACKET.
Horror!
Bertie watches a scary film with Gran, meets a terrifying guard dog on his friend's paper round and ruins a priceless work of art on a school trip.