The Best of American Renaissance by Year

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of American Renaissance (making it older than almost half of its employees, an interesting milestone). Below, a list of each year’s best article.

• 1990: “On The Trail of the Great Taboo” by Thomas Jackson. This review of The IQ Controversy by Mark Snyderman and Stanley Rothman is, unfortunately, as timely as ever.
• 1991: “What Makes a Nation: The Case of Japan,” by Steven Howell. Unlike the US, Japan today is much like it was in 1991: homogeneous, peaceful, prosperous, and unified.
• 1992: “Race and Physical Differences” by William Robertson Boggs. One of our most popular articles of all time, this remains an excellent summary of human biodiversity.
• 1993: “Prisoner of Democracy” by John Tyndall. In his only essay for AR, the late founder of the British National Party recounts for an American audience what it is like to go to prison for “crime think.”
• 1994: “Why Race Matters” by Sam T. Francis. Arguably the best essay by the “Clausewitz of the right,” it was adapted from his speech at the first-ever AR conference, and outlines with perfect clarity the threats whites face in the modern era.
• 1995: “White Man in a Texas Prison” by D. Zatukel. The first in a what would become an AR staple: First-person accounts about the horrors of “diversity.”
• 1996: “The Ways of Our People” by Jared Taylor. An examination of what makes whites unique.
• 1997: “Madison Grant and the Racialist Movement” by George McDaniel. A very informative profile of a wise, but often forgotten, American patriot.
• 1998: “South Africa Under Black Rule” by Gedaliah Braun. Original on-the-ground reporting on the state of the West’s canary in the coal mine: post-1994 South Africa.
• 1999: “A Land of Their Own” by James P. Lubinskas. A useful summary of the history of America’s black-led “back to Africa” movements.
• 2000: “Don’t Write Off the Liberals” by Melinda Jelliby. A fascinating overview of racially conscious white Leftists, past and present.
• 2001: “Rearing Honorable White Children” by Robert S. Griffin. Perhaps the most practical thing ever published by AR, and certainly one of the most inspiring.
• 2002: “Race and Psychopathic Personality” by Richard Lynn. A scientific article that helps answer many questions few Americans are willing to ask out loud.
• 2003: “Fade to Brown” by Stephen Webster. One of the best accounts of the history of immigration in America published anywhere.
• 2004: “Afrikaner Survival Under Black Rule” by Dan Roodt. A detailed profile of one of the white race’s most embattled tribes.
• 2005: “Africa in Our Midst” by Jared Taylor. Jared Taylor on black behavior in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Certainly his most notorious essay.
• 2006: “The Man Who Invented White Guilt” by Jared Taylor. A look at W.E.B. DuBois, the godfather of white ethnomasochism.
• 2007: “The Knoxville Horror” by Nicholas Stix. Thorough write-up of one of the most horrific black-on-white crimes in the last quarter century.
• 2008: “White Slaves” by Thomas Jackson. A review of White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America, by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh. This is a very important book that destroys conventional views of “racism.”
• 2009: “The Unknown Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Benjamin J. Ryan. Everything you’re not supposed to know about America’s newest saint.
• 2010: “The Wages of Idealism” by Tracy Abel. The most poignant article AR has ever run.
• 2011: “What Did the Ancient Greeks Think of Blacks?” by Hippocrates. Using science and ancient history to answer a question no other publication would touch.
• 2012: “White Teacher in an LA School” by Mary Morrison. A deeply disturbing glimpse of our Third-World future.
• 2013: “Race: The Central Question” by Gregory Hood. One of the first contributions by one of our best writers.
• 2014: “What Dispossession Looks Like” by Gilbert Cavanaugh. AR’s first photo essay documenting America’s ghettos.
• 2015: “Welfare: Who’s on It, Who’s Not?” by F. Roger Devlin and Henry Wolff. A thorough look at the data.
• 2016: “A White Teacher Speaks Out” by Christopher Jackson. A riveting account of what it is like to teach black children.
• 2017: “Argentina: A Mirror of Your Future” by Gustavo Semeria. An important warning from a white Latin American.
• 2018: “Border Walls Work” by Westley Parker. An essay that resolves the debate.
• 2019: “On Faith and Purpose” by Gregory Hood. This may be the best thing Gregory Hood has ever written.
• 2020: Though it is too early in the year to be sure, the most important book of the year will probably be Charles Murray’s Human Diversity, which Jared Taylor has recently reviewed.