Samuel Jared Taylor, born on September 15, 1951, in Japan to American Christian missionary parents, is an American white nationalist, political activist, writer, and founder of American Renaissance. He is known for promoting racial separatism and white advocacy, preferring the label 'racial realist' over white supremacist. Raised primarily in the United States after his family returned from Japan, Taylor graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and later earned a master's degree in international economics from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and the University of Paris in 1980. He worked in international business, including roles at the World Bank and as a consultant, before shifting to activism in the late 1980s. In 1990, he founded the New Century Foundation, which publishes American Renaissance, an online magazine and newsletter espousing white nationalist views. Since 1994, he has organized annual American Renaissance conferences attracting far-right speakers to discuss topics like immigration restrictions and white identity preservation. Taylor has authored books such as 'Paved with Good Intentions' (1992) and 'White Identity' (2011), arguing for racial separation based on purported biological differences. His work has been widely criticized as promoting pseudoscientific racism and has led to associations with neo-Nazi and alt-right figures. He has faced deplatforming, bans from countries like the UK in 2017 for hate speech, and accusations of Holocaust minimization, though he denies anti-Semitism. Taylor's influence stems from his intellectual framing of racial issues, and he has been condemned by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League. Despite legal challenges, he continues to operate American Renaissance with a significant online presence.