E. Michael Jones

E. Michael Jones
Born Eugene Michael Jones
(1948-05-04) May 4, 1948
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation Writer, professor, commentator, editor

Eugene Michael Jones (born May 4, 1948) is an American writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine (formerly Fidelity Magazine).

Early career

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was raised in the Roman Catholic Church, but he lost interest in it in early adulthood. He became involved in the counterculture of the 1960s. He found little satisfaction after leaving his faith and eventually returned to it after reading The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton. Jones then obtained his Ph.D. from Temple University and began to teach at Saint Mary's College, of Notre Dame, Indiana. To his displeasure, he found this college to be what he considered to be (in the words of Michael W. Cuneo, who interviewed him) "the antithesis of what a Catholic college should be", as it was pro-choice, feminist and secular.

He made little effort to conceal his views, which led to conflicts with many faculty, his department chairwoman, and eventually the college's president. His department, which viewed him as a religious absolutist, decided against renewing his contract, a tenureable position, after his first year.[1]

Writings

Jones's work has primarily been concerned with the relationship between the Catholic Church and secular culture as well as the sexual revolution and the wider cultural effects of the Second Vatican Council. Later work has focused on the historical friction between the Catholic Church and Jews and in 2004, the Catholic League "condemned Jones’s antisemitism and repudiated his efforts to justify it in the name of Catholic theology".[2]

Jones has denied accusations of antisemitism and says that any form of racism is against his Catholic faith.[3] He has stated publicly that he considers modern Judaism to be a wicked ideology, but he condemns criticism of Jews based upon race.[4] In February 2008, a complaint of antisemitism from the Southern Poverty Law Center made the School of Architecture at The Catholic University of America cancel a lecture series in which Jones was scheduled to speak. In an interview with The Washington Times, Jones said that he rejected racism in all of its forms, as is consistent with Catholic teaching,[3] and responded to the cancellation in an article in Culture Wars.[5]

Current work

In recent years, Jones has focused on and has written numerous articles examining usury and wider economic issues. He wrote a book entitled Barren Metal: a History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury.

Travel to Iran

For his first time via Mark Dankof, doctor Jones has been contacted and invited to Iran by Hamed Ghashghavi[6] as the secretary of International Affairs of the International Conference on Hollywoodism in Tehran in February 2013.

And Then he has been invited to Iran on 2 other occasions: 3rd Intl. New horizon Conference and another time in the frame of an individual trip in order to give lecture in some Iranian universities around the country. During his personal visit, Hamed Ghashghavi has organized difference lectures and Q&A session in Ahavaz, Shiraz, Mashhad and Tehran.

Media appearances

Jones has made numerous appearances as a journalistic commentator on Russia Today and PressTV.

Bibliography

Fidelity Press

References

  1. Cuneo, Michael (1999). Smoke of Satan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 40–41. ISBN 0-8018-6265-5.
  2. "Media". Catholicleague.org.
  3. 1 2 Catholic University nixes lectures, The Washington Times, February 13, 2008
  4. The Revolutionary Jew Part I audio link from Podcasts, Culture Wars
  5. Antisemitism and Thought Control at Catholic University, E. Michael Jones, Culture Wars
  6. "Ghashghavi.ir". Ghashghavi.ir.

External links

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