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BOOKS ON JUDAISM FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE

I have written three books on Judaism within a modern evolutionary perspective. These books are in the Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence series edited by Seymour W. Itzkoff and published by Praeger Publishers, an imprint of the Greenwood Publishing Group.

Praeger has gotten out of the business of publishing and distributing these books, but each of these three is now available in paperback editions.

Ordering information for my books

The Culture of Critique

The Culture of Critique, which discusses Jewish involvement in various 20th-century intellectual and political movements, is now available in a paperback edition. This edition includes a new 70-page preface that updates some of the material in the original version. The best price is from the publisher ($22.50). The book is also available at Amazon ($27.95), or Barnes & Noble ($27.95).

Read the Preface to the First Paperback Edition of The Culture of Critique
Link to Russian translation of The Culture of Critique

Separation and Its Discontents

Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism is available as a paperback. The best price is from the publisher ($16.50). The book is also available from Amazon ($21.95), and Barnes & Noble ($21.95). The paperback edition includes a new preface that summarizes recent research on psychological mechanisms of ethnic conflict. It also contains a reply to one of my critics, Paul Rubin. My reply to Rubin deals with several conceptual issues important for understanding the history of anti-Jewish attitudes.

A People That Shall Dwell Alone

A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples, discusses Judaism from the perspective of evolutionary biology. It is now available as a paperback and can be ordered for $32.95 from the publisher, iUniverse, or from Amazon, or Barnes and Noble. This book is a reprint of the 1994 version published by Praeger, but it also includes a 96-page monograph titled Diaspora Peoples discussing other group strategies/diaspora groups, including the Gypsies, the Amish and Hutterites, the Puritans, and the Overseas Chinese.

Summaries and reviews of my books

New Monograph

Understanding Jewish Influence: A Study in Ethnic Activism
with an Introduction by Samuel Francis

Three Essays by Kevin MacDonald
1. Background Traits for Jewish Activism
2. Zionism and the Internal Dynamics of Judaism
3. Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement
The Occidental Quarterly Monograph #1;
Published November, 2004; ISBN: 1-59368-017-1; 142 pages; $12.00

For orders, please contact:
Louis Andrews, Business Manager
Washington Summit Publishers
P. O. Box 3514
Augusta, GA 30914; Phone: (706) 736-4884; Fax: (706) 733-7652;
Email:LRA@lrainc.com

Links to several articles and reviews developing evolutionary perspectives on ethnicity and religion:

Jewish involvement in influencing United States immigration policy, 1881-1965: A historical review. Population and Environment, 19, 295-355, 1998.
Immigration and the Unmentionable Question of Ethnic Interests. VDARE (www.vdare.com), October 27, 2004.
Was the 1924 Immigration Cut-off 'Racist'? VDARE (www.vdare.com), June 19, 2004.
Understanding Jewish Activism I: Background Traits for Jewish Activism. Occidental Quarterly, 3(2), Summer 2003: 5-38.
Understanding Jewish Activism II: Zionism and the Internal Dynamics of Judaism. Occidental Quarterly, 3(3), Fall 2003: 15-44.
Understanding Jewish Activism III: Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement. Occidental Quarterly, 4(2), Summer, 2004.
What Makes Western Culture Unique? Occidental Quarterly, Vol. 2(2), Summer 2002: 9-38.
Thinking about Neoconservatism. VDARE (www.vdare.com), September 18, 2003.
Ilana Mercer, Blame the Jews criticizing the VDARE article: World Net Daily, Sept. 26, 2003.
Comment on Ilana Mercer's 'Blame the Jews': World Net Daily, Sept. 29, 2003.
Review of The 'Jewish Threat': Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army by Joseph W. Bendersky. New York: Basic Books, 2000, xvii + 539 pp. The Occidental Quarterly, 1(2), Winter 2001: 63-77.
Review of Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate by Neil Baldwin (New York: Public Affairs, 2001, 416 pp) and The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem, by Henry Ford ( Dearborn, MI: Dearborn Independent, 1920-1921, 416 pp.). Part I: The Education of a Midwestern Industrialist. The Occidental Quarterly 2(3), Fall 2002: 69-77. Part II: Henry Ford and the Jewish Question. The Occidental Quarterly 2(4), Winter 2002/2003: 53-77.
Review of Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, by Paul H. Rubin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Evolutionary Strategies of Ethnocentric Behavior, The Occidental Quarterly
4(1), Spring 2004.
My response to the John Derbyshire review appearing in The American Conservative, March 10, 2003.
An Integrative Evolutionary Perspective on Ethnicity. This is part of the preface to the paperback edition of Separation and Its Discontents (1stbooks Library, 2004).
Review of Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society, by David Sloan Wilson. University of Chicago Press. Human Ethology Bulletin, 18(1), March, 2003, 6-9.
The Establishment and Maintenance of Socially Imposed Monogamy in Western Europe. This article was the subject of commentaries by Laura Betzig, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, James A. Brundage, Ulrich Mueller, Frank Salter, John M. Strate, and David Sloan Wilson.) Politics and the Life Sciences, 14, 3-23, 1995
Focusing on the Group: Further Issues Related to Western Monogamy. Politics and the Life Sciences, 14, 38-46, 1995. (This is my reply to the comments mentioned in the previous reference.)
Indoctrination and Group Evolutionary Strategies. In I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt & F. Salter (Eds.), Ideology, Warfare, and Indoctrinability. Oxford and Providence: Berghahn Books, 345-368.
Mitigating Risk in Jewish Groups. In F. Salter (Ed.) Risky Transactions, Kinship, and Ethnicity. Oxford and Providence: Berghahn Books, 2002.
Material on the controversy surrounding my testifying in the David Irving libel case:

My Decision to Testify for Irving
The Slate debates
My response to Tony Ortega of New Times LA

I can also be reached by email if you have any questions: kmacd@csulb.edu