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Eugene Michael Jones (born May 4, 1948) is an American writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine (formerly Fidelity Magazine). Jones is known for his writings from a perspective which defends the Catholic Church in American society and overviews the decline of the Catholic communities which were assimilated into the secular American mainstream after the 1950s.

Early career
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a German American family and was raised a Catholic, but lost interest in religion in early adulthood.[citation needed] He became involved in the counterculture of the 1960s. He found little satisfaction after leaving his faith and eventually returned to it after reading The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton. Jones then obtained his Ph.D. from Temple University and began to teach at Saint Mary's College, of Notre Dame, Indiana. To his displeasure, he found this college to be what he considered to be (in the words of Michael W. Cuneo, who interviewed him) "the antithesis of what a Catholic college should be", as it was pro-choice, feminist and secular.

He made little effort to conceal his views, which led to conflicts with many faculty, his department chairwoman, and eventually the college's president. Though he was in a tenure track position, the department, which viewed him as a religious absolutist, decided against renewing his contract after his first year.

Current work
In recent years, Jones has focused on and has written numerous articles examining usury and wider economic issues. In 2014, Fidelity Press published Jones's approximately 1300 page work Barren Metal: a History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury.