48 Facts About Jack Donovan

Jack Donovan was born on 1974 and is an American far-right writer and activist.

Jack Donovan has at various times advocated male supremacy, white nationalism, fascism, and the political disenfranchisement of women.

Jack Donovan led a chapter of the Wolves of Vinland, a Norse neopagan organization and SPLC-designated hate group, from 2014 to 2018.

Jack Donovan was born in 1974 and grew up in a blue-collar household in rural Pennsylvania.

Jack Donovan moved to New York in the 1990s to study fine art.

Jack Donovan later dropped out of college and became a manual laborer.

Jack Donovan has worked as a club dancer, truck driver, and tattoo artist.

Jack Donovan is a former Satanist, and became an ordained priest of the Church of Satan in 2007.

Jack Donovan has been described as gay, though he does not use the label for himself and has criticized gay culture as effeminate.

In 2012, Jack Donovan published The Way of Men, which has since been translated into French, Portuguese, and German.

Jack Donovan published a collection of essays and speeches titled A Sky Without Eagles in 2014, and the books Becoming a Barbarian in 2016 and A More Complete Beast in 2018.

Jack Donovan used to write for the online anti-feminist journal, The Spearhead, which was published from 2009 to 2014.

Jack Donovan wrote for another of Spencer's publications, Radix Journal, for Jared Taylor's American Renaissance, and for Greg Johnson's Counter-Currents.

Jack Donovan spoke in 2013 and 2015 at the National Policy Institute, Spencer's white supremacist think-tank.

The Daily Stormer's Andrew Anglin led a boycott of the 2015 National Policy Institute conference after learning that Jack Donovan was speaking, opposing the conference's choice to invite a homosexual speaker.

Jack Donovan has spoken several times, including in 2019, at the 21 Convention, a manosphere conference organized by Anthony "Dream" Johnson.

Jack Donovan has been described as a male supremacist and a "male tribalist".

Jack Donovan is sometimes seen to be a part of the manosphere, though the prevalence of homophobia in the manospherian communities has affected his reception.

Jack Donovan is a self-described "masculinist" and promotes a version of male supremacy that focuses on his hatred of "effeminacy", feminism, and weakness.

Jack Donovan describes The Brotherhood as a meritocratic group in which men must become warriors, and where only men have political say.

Jack Donovan opposes other parts of the LGBT community, including lesbian, trans, and genderqueer people.

Jack Donovan joined the Wolves of Vinland in 2014 after visiting their rural Virginia community, and his work helped the Wolves refine their philosophy.

Jack Donovan formed the Cascadia chapter of the group in 2015.

Jack Donovan left the Wolves of Vinland in 2018, later saying his association with the group was during a "dark chapter" in his life.

Jack Donovan has said that men are "domesticated by women", and that "gang masculinity" is the only path to reversing this.

Jack Donovan has called for restoring "traditional" gender roles, restricting women to birthing and raising children, and preventing them from leadership in society or politics.

Jack Donovan has suggested that women exist only to give birth to men, and that a family is useful only to make possible his idea of The Brotherhood.

Jack Donovan has said he doesn't believe women are evil, but that they are self-serving and must be controlled so as their wishes do not clash with men's interests.

Jack Donovan's ideology are usually characterized as part of the manosphere and alt-right movements, and have been described as male supremacist, white nationalist, and accelerationist.

Jack Donovan was an influential member of the alt-right from 2010 to 2017.

Jack Donovan was sympathetic towards the white nationalist goals of the movement, such as promoting racial separatism and fighting "anti-white bias".

Shane Burley wrote that Jack Donovan was well received among the alt-right because of "his extreme anti-feminism and defense of male violence", and that "his presence helps to round out the Alt Right's ideas about gender, introduces the Men's Rights community to their work, and he has pushed the reclaiming of Nordic racial spirituality and close-knit tribal structures that are ethnically defined".

Lyons has said of Jack Donovan, "he has a history of seeking common ground with white nationalists, but he is actually not one of them".

Jack Donovan has called for the political disenfranchisement of women, advocating unilateral control of society by white men.

Jack Donovan suggests that his allies build resilient local networks to "survive the collapse and preserve your identities after the Fall".

Jack Donovan wrote in 2012 that the United States was moving towards a failed state, and encouraged people in the alt-right to prepare so they could "survive the collapse and preserve your identities after the Fall".

Jack Donovan viewed the predicted failure in a positive light, as an opportunity make America "a place where men can restart the world".

Jack Donovan argued that a Trump presidency would only serve to hide the flaws in the system.

Jack Donovan disavowed the alt-right in August 2017, following the Unite the Right rally in which an antifascist protester was killed.

Jack Donovan wrote that he would no longer allow white nationalists to use or publish his writing, criticized Richard B Spencer for describing the alt-right as a white nationalist movement, and decried the Unite the Right rally for bringing members of the alt-right together with neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan, who he wrote "actively despise me and my friends".

Jack Donovan said in 2020 that he wished "White Nationalists would burn my books and stop following me".

Jack Donovan said that he chose to be a member of the alt-right during a difficult time in his life, and that he was trying to put the association behind him.

Jack Donovan has expressed hatred for portions of the LGBT community, including lesbian, transgender, and genderqueer people.

Jack Donovan has opposed same-sex marriage, explaining that he believes the traditional nuclear family to be advantageous to society.

In 2016, Jack Donovan appeared on then-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos' podcast.

Jack Donovan was member of the Wolves of Vinland, a Norse neopagan group based in Virginia that has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "Neo-Volkisch hate group", from 2014 to 2018.

Jack Donovan has built a brand around his macho looks and persona.

Jack Donovan identified them as a "variation of extreme right-wing conceptions of masculinity" and claimed that Donovan's writings are not of any essential novelty.