Jeremy Carl

Jeremy Carl, c. 2024

Jeremy Carl is an American political commentator and government official who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior during the first Trump Administration.[1][2] Carl is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute.[3] He was previously a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.[4]

Early life and education

Carl received a BA from Yale University, where he served as President of the Yale Political Union,[5] and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[6][7] He was a research fellow at Stanford University's Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies.[8] From 2004 to 2005 Carl lived in India where he was a visiting fellow in resource and development economics at The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi.[9]

Carl comes from a Jewish family but has converted to Christianity.[10] He is a member of the Presbyterian Church in America.[11]

Career

Carl is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute.[3] He was previously a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.[4] Carl's book The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart received praise from a broad swath of conservative figures and influencers including Victor Davis Hanson, Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, Peter Kirsanow, Heather MacDonald, Steve Bannon, Dinesh D’Souza, and Christopher Rufo.[12][13][14]

Carl stirred controversy in 2020 and again in 2025 over incendiary social media posts.[1][2][15] He expressed sympathy for the January 6th rioters, describing them as "political prisoners" and saying they had it worse than Black Americans in the Jim Crow South.[15] He called for the death penalty for American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.[15] In 2021, he complained about the "total absence" of White Protestants in the Biden administration.[15] He criticized the addition of Juneteenth as a federal holiday, saying, "If you’re a white person celebrating Juneteenth, you’ve already surrendered".[15] Carl has also downplayed The Holocaust and called for the "Jewish question" to be addressed.[16][17] Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut called Carl a white nationalist shortly after questioning Carl during a congressional hearing on his nomination to be the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.[18] Carl pushed back against the assertion that he is a white nationalist and instead claimed that he is an American civic nationalist.[19]

Carl has advocated for the Trump administration to ignore court rulings it considers illegal.[15]

Donald Trump administration

Carl was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior during the first Trump Administration.

In June 2025, President Donald Trump nominated Carl to be the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.[20] In September 2025, CNN reported that Carl had deleted thousands of inflammatory social media posts, including praising the January 6 rioters, and calling for the death penalty for an opponent, and requested their removal from the Wayback Machine.[15] As of February 2026, Carl's nomination is thought likely to fail.[21]

Books

  • Conversations about Energy: How the Experts See America's Energy Choices (Hoover Institution Press, 2010) (with James Goodby)
  • Distributed Power in the United States: Prospects and Policies (Hoover Institution Press, 2013) (editor)
  • Keeping the Lights on at America’s Nuclear Power Plants (Hoover Institution Press, 2017) (with David Fedor)
  • The Unprotected Class How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart (Regnery, 2024)[22][23][24]

References

  1. ^ a b Doyle, Jennifer; Yachnin, Michael (October 28, 2020). "Interior hires another vocal Black Lives Matter critic". E&E News by POLITICO.
  2. ^ a b Fears, Darryl (2020-10-30). "A top Interior official has controversial views on race. He used a white supremacist website to support them". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  3. ^ a b "Jeremy Carl". The Claremont Institute. Retrieved 2026-01-07.
  4. ^ a b "Jeremy Carl". Hoover Institution.
  5. ^ "The Daily Pennsylvanian". The Daily Pennsylvanian.
  6. ^ "Jeremy Carl". Stanford University. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  7. ^ "TF10 - Science - 1229" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Jeremy Carl". pesd.fsi.stanford.edu.
  9. ^ "Fellows - AIF". AIF.org. Archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023. Retrieved 7 Aug 2017.
  10. ^ Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) (2025-12-20). "Normally, I let 99% of the lies, smears, and distortions written about me go unacknowledged..." Twitter. Archived from the original on 2025-12-20.
  11. ^ Carl, Jeremy. "As a PCA member, not seeing a lot of evidence in the data". X. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
  12. ^ "Spotify – Web Player". Spotify.
  13. ^ "The Unprotected Class". Passage Press.
  14. ^ "The Unprotected Class!". SalemNewsChannel.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g Steck, Andrew Kaczynski, Em (2025-09-25). "KFile: Trump nominee for key State Department position attempted to erase years of inflammatory social media posts | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved 2026-02-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Smith, David (2026-02-12). "Trump's pick for top diplomatic role faces scrutiny over 'white supremacist' views". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-02-12.
  17. ^ Rod, Marc (2025-12-20). "State Dept. nominee espoused antisemitic views, downplayed the Holocaust". Jewish Insider. Retrieved 2026-02-12.
  18. ^ "Chris Murphy on X:". Twitter. February 12, 2026. Retrieved February 16, 2026. Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the "erasure of white culture".
  19. ^ "Jeremy Carl on X:". Twitter. February 13, 2026. Retrieved February 16, 2026. Contrary to your assertions, I am, of course, not a White nationalist, and actual White nationalists have criticized me and my work very harshly (and indeed, many have blocked me on X) because they understand that I am an American civic nationalist, very concerned with the preservation of our common culture and our unity as a nation, something I stressed several times during our hearing.
  20. ^ "PN345-4 - Nomination of Jeremy Carl for Department of State, 119th Congress (2025-2026)". www.congress.gov. January 3, 2026.
  21. ^ Hansler, Jennifer (12 February 2026). "Bipartisan opposition over inflammatory comments likely to sink Trump State Dept. nominee". CNN. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
  22. ^ Russo, Jude (2024-05-10). "Race Hustlers Are Destroying America". The American Conservative. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  23. ^ Dreher, Rod (2024-05-13). "America's Unprotected Class—And Europe's: An Interview with Jeremy Carl". europeanconservative.com. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  24. ^ Pendley, William Perry (2024-05-03). "Denial of equal protection for whites: How culture countered the Constitution in America - Washington Examiner". Retrieved 2025-05-03.
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