The following is a chronological collection of the most relevant published works and exchanges surrounding Kevin MacDonald’s The Culture of Critique. I draw heavily from MacDonald’s personal website (publications and responses), Nathan Cofnas’ personal website, George Michael’s 2006 paper, and the Wikipedia articles for Kevin MacDonald (evolutionary psychologist) and The Culture of Critique series. Hit pieces and uninformative mainstream media articles are ignored. I’m actively working on finding accessible versions of any of the following links that are dead or paywalled. Associated dates refer to dates of publication.
☆ indicates a central text
♱ indicates a part of the MacDonald-Cofnas debate
☆ 1994: A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples by Kevin MacDonald. MacDonald’s website provides a thorough summary of this book along with favorable statements collected from various reviews, most of which don’t appear to be otherwise accessible online.
Jul., 1995: Review by John Hartung.
Sep., 1995: Review by Eugen Schoenfeld.
Oct., 1995: Review by Sander Gilman.
Sep., 1996: Review by Roger Masters.
Dec. 19, 1997: Review by Stephen Sniegoski.
1997: Review by Laurence Loeb.
☆ 1998: Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism by Kevin MacDonald. MacDonald’s website provides a thorough summary of this book along with favorable statements collected from various reviews, most of which don’t appear to be otherwise accessible online.
Nov. 1, 1998: Review by Robert Pois.
MacDonald’s response.
Spring, 2000: Review by Malcolm Ree.
Apr., 2001: Review by Zev Garber.
Spring, 2001: Review by Kevin Hannan.
Winter, 2001: Review by Jefferson Singer.
☆ 1998: The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements by Kevin MacDonald. MacDonald’s website provides a thorough summary of this book. Reviews are given throughout the rest of this chronology.
Jan. 24, 2000: “Evolutionary Psychology’s Anti-Semite” by Judith Shulevitz.
Subsequent Shulevitz articles:
Jan. 25: “On Fighting Bad Ideas”
Jan. 27: “MacDonald vs. Culturebox, Continued”
“How To Deal With Fringe Academics” between Judith Shulevitz, John Tooby, Alex Star, and Steven Pinker.
MacDonald’s general response.
MacDonald’s response to Shulevitz’s initial article (dead link; upon retirement, MacDonald’s pages were removed from CSU, LB’s website).
MacDonald’s response to Steven Pinker’s contribution to “How To Deal With Fringe Academics.”
Sept. 1, 2000: “On The Culture of Critique” by Paul Gottfried. Subsequent MacDonald-Gottfried exchange is appended.
Jan. 29, 2001: “Scholarship as an Exercise in Rhetorical Strategy: A Case Study of Kevin MacDonald's Research Techniques” by David Lieberman (parts one, two, three). There seems to have been much debate on the H-net academic forum around this time that will be added here at a later date.
MacDonald’s response.
Mar. 10, 2003: “The Marx of the Anti-Semites” by John Derbyshire.
Mar., 2003: “The Conservatism of Fools: A Response to Derbyshire”
Feb. 28, 2007: Derbyshire’s followup comments.
☆ 2004: Understanding Jewish Influence: A Study in Ethnic Activism by Kevin MacDonald.
Nov. 11, 2005: “MACDONALD’S ANTI-SEMITISM” by Lawrence Auster.
Nov. 17, 2005: “IS MY CRITICISM OF JEWISH ATTITUDES THE SAME AS KEVIN MACDONALD’S?” by Lawrence Auster.
2006: “Professor Kevin MacDonald’s Critique of Judaism: Legitimate Scholarship or the Intellectualization of Anti-Semitism?” by George Michael.
2008: “Jews Will Be Jews: A Scientific Racialism for the 21st Century” by David Lieberman.
2008: Cultural Insurrections: Essays on Western Civilization, Jewish Influence, and Anti-Semitism by Kevin MacDonald.
Mar. 30, 2009: “Some Other Memories of Madison and The New Left” by Robert Weissberg. MacDonald’s response is appended.
Apr. 6, 2009: “In Search of Anti-Semitism” by Paul Gottfried.
MacDonald’s response.
Jun. 12, 2009: “Critique of the Culture of Kevin MacDonald” by Takuan Seiyo.
Various commentaries in support of Seiyo: amnation’s and Nicholas Stix’s.
MacDonald’s response.
Aug. 12, 2009: “Verdict: Suicide—Eric Kaufmann Replies To Kevin MacDonald” by Eric Kaufmann. MacDonald’s response is appended.
♱ Mar. 10, 2018: “Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy” by Nathan Cofnas.
♱ Mar. 20, 2018: “Reply to Nathan Cofnas” by Kevin MacDonald.
♱ Mar., 2018: “Comments on MacDonald’s reply” by Nathan Cofnas. Must be downloaded for the comments to be viewable.
♱Apr. 19, 2018: “Second Reply to Nathan Cofnas” by Kevin MacDonald.
Mar. 15, 2018: “What the Alt-Right Gets Wrong About Jews” by Nathan Cofnas and Jonathan Anomaly.
Apr. 16, 2018: “Analyzing Kevin MacDonald’s ‘Culture of Critique’ and the alt-right’s embrace of anti-Jewish ideology” by Nathan Cofnas.
May 2, 2018: “Kevin MacDonald responds to criticism of his theory of Jewish ethnocentrism and influence” by Kevin MacDonald.
May 2, 2018: “Viewpoint: Kevin MacDonald won’t accept evidence supporting alternative theories about Jewish influence” by Nathan Cofnas.
Apr. 24, 2018: “The Jewish Question: an Empirical Examiniation [sic]” by Sean Last. While this blogpost doesn’t exclusively address either Cofnas or MacDonald, it does devote time to criticizing Cofnas’ Default Hypothesis, to which Cofnas responds in the comments.
May 10, 2018: “On the Kevin MacDonald–Nathan Cofnas Debate” by Spencer J. Quinn (parts one, two, three, four).
May 26, 2018: Interview with Kevin MacDonald by JF Gariépy on Bitchute.
?: Nathan Cofnas’ response to JFG’s critiques
Jun. 9, 2018: “Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy Is the Most Plausible Hypothesis: a Response to Nathan Cofnas’ Critical Analysis of Kevin MacDonald’s Theory of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth Century Ideological Movements” by Edward Dutton.
Jul. 24, 2018: “Is Kevin MacDonald’s Theory of Judaism ‘Plausible’? A Response to Dutton” by Nathan Cofnas.
Aug., 2018: “Reply to Nathan Cofnas’s Comments on Edward Dutton” by Kevin MacDonald.
Jun. 27, 2018: “Kevin MacDonald and the Elevation of Anti-Semitic Pseudoscience” by Michael Schulson.
Feb. 13, 2019: “A Preliminary Critique of the Cofnas Critique” by J. Otto Pohl.
Jun. 11, 2019: “On the Jewish Question” by Mouthy Infidel.
Jan., 2020: “An Empirical Test of the Competing Cofnas and MacDonald Hypotheses on Religious and Political Orientation” by Curtis Dunkel.
Jun. 11, 2020: “American Racist” by David Samuels. Includes extensive interview with Kevin MacDonald.
♱ Feb. 3, 2021: “The Anti-Jewish Narrative” by Nathan Cofnas.
♱ Jan. 1, 2022: “The ‘Default Hypothesis’ Fails to Explain Jewish Influence” by Kevin MacDonald.
2022: Reviews of MacDonald’s paper
MacDonald’s corresponding responses
Mar. 20, 2021: “The Cofnas Problem” by Andrew Joyce (part one, two, three). Cofnas briefly responds in the comments (as in part two), which elicits additional replies.
Spring, 2021: “A New Protocols: Kevin MacDonald's Reconceptualization of Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory” by Jeffrey Blutinger. Paywalled.
Jun. 12, 2021: “Falsehoods of Kevin MacDonald” by The Problem Gene.
Aug. 2, 2021: Interview with Nathan Cofnas by Lipton Matthews on YouTube.
Aug. 17, 2021: “Modern, Darwinian Antisemitism: The Racist Misuse of Evolutionary Pseudoscience” by Daniel Kriegman.
Oct. 24, 2021: “AN ANTIDOTE TO THE JEWPILL (PART 1: GROUP REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY)” by James Lawrence.
Jan. 13, 2022: “Should Philosophers Censor Kevin MacDonald?” by Nathan Cofnas.
Feb. 15, 2022: “Kevin Macdonald’s ‘Culture of Critique’: A Fundamentally Flawed Theory of Twentieth Century Jewish Intellectual and Political Activism” by The Contemporary Heretic.
Oct. 10, 2022: “CofC: The Boasian School of Anthropology” by Will Vivare.
♱ Jan. 6, 2023: “Still No Evidence for a Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy” by Nathan Cofnas.
Apr. 12, 2023: “Cofnas Versus MacDonald” by ZMan. Critical of Cofnas.
Apr. 14, 2023: MacDonald’s reply.
Mar., 1998: “Jewish Involvement in Shaping American Immigration Policy, 1881-1965: A Historical Review”
Oct. 31, 2004: “Can the Jewish Model Help the West Survive?”
Fall, 2005: “Stalin’s Willing Executioners: Jews as a Hostile Elite in the USSR”
Fall, 2007: “The Israel Lobby: A Case Study in Jewish Influence”