E. Michael Jones

Early life and education Jones was born in 1948 and raised as a Catholic in a blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood, by his stay-at-home mother, Florence, and his businessman father, Eugene. Jones attended the local Saint Joseph's College, a Catholic college in his home city, between 1966 and 1970. He became a lapsed Catholic during his college years, at the age of 20,

Jones wrote much of the content contained in the magazine; Patrick Allitt describes the journal's format as being composed of ordinary news stories about events affecting Catholics, as well as extended essays on what the journal's writers described the woes of modernity, with Jones himself contributing the majority of the analytical writing.

Monographs In addition to his writings in journals and magazines, Jones has published over one dozen books.

Degenerate Moderns, Dionysos Rising, Living Machines, and Libido Dominandi Jones, in a number of his books has written about his thesis that the telos of cultural modernity as being the justification of what he describes as deviant and degenerate sexual practices of intellectuals whom he says have helped to bring modernity about. Three such books. Degenerate Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior, Dionysos Rising: The Birth of Cultural Revolution out of the Spirit of Music, and Living Machines: Bauhaus Architecture as Sexual Ideology, were published in the as a trilogy between 1993 and 1995.

Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control Libido Dominandi advances the thesis that, beginning in the Age of Enlightenment, a slow plot had begun to chip away at the moral order, culminating in the use of sexual liberation as a form of political control. Jones begins the book by examining the Illuminati and the Suppression of the Society of Jesus, and continues by examining people and moments in history that Jones sees as contributing to a decline in religious belief and public morality. Jonathan M. Smith, writing in, Ethics, Place & Environment, describes this quote as a broader part of what he sees as a striking example that illustrates intentional efforts by Reich to methodically undermine the Catholic imagination, reduce prayer, and consequently corrupt one's moral compass.

Influence and public perception Jones and his works are not popular in the United States, where his works are on the fringes of public intellectual discourse. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists Jones's Fidelity Press as being among "radical traditionalist" Catholic groups in a 2021 report, describing the set of groups as composing "the largest single group of serious antisemites in America". Graff concurs with the ADL and the SPLC, labeling Jones a "radical traditionalist Catholic" and describing him and his works beginning with Libido Dominandi as being antisemitic.

Personal life Jones lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his wife, Ruth. As of 1997, the couple had five children together.