Jonathan Keeperman

Jonathan Keeperman, also known by his pseudonym "Lomez" (stylised L0m3z), is an American far-right publisher who leads Passage Publishing, also known as Passage Press, a far-right and "new right" publishing company. Keeperman was a University of California, Irvine, lecturer from 2013 to 2022.

Founded in 2021, Passage publishes works from online personalities, reprints and new translations of fiction and nonfiction from historical fascist and reactionary authors. In college, he played for the University of California, San Diego, basketball team.

He began blogging under the pseudonym "Mr Lomez" in 2006. In the 2020s, Lomez wrote in The American Mind, The Federalist, and an anti-feminist essay in First Things.

Keeperman was described by The Guardian as a "prominent member[...] of the so-called 'new right'. It was founded in 2021 out of the Passage Prize, an online writing and arts competition offering a $20,000 cryptocurrency prize for selected works. The judges were neoreactionary Curtis Yarvin and self-published author Zero HP Lovecraft. Passage has published compendiums from online figures Steve Sailer, Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin. Fashion designer Elena Velez, who is associated with the Dimes Square scene, has been sponsored by Passage and cited the company and its founder as inspiration.

Interviewed by Ross Douthat for the New York Times, Keeperman said the goal of Passage Publishing was to "revive what is a genuine right-wing cultural and ideological — I hate the word "movement," because it’s not quite that — but a right wing that can form an enduring and meaningful counterweight to a dominant left and a dominant progressive march". He contrasted this with previous works of consciously right-wing art, which he said were "moralistic", "didactic", "overly sentimental" and nostalgic instead of looking forward.