The Guardian published a new “exposé” on Tuesday, maliciously revealing the name and location of a purposefully anonymous right-wing author and publisher—but the article’s subject has stood defiant in the face of this attack, while social media has rallied against the Guardian in support of the hit-piece’s non-consenting subject.
The pseudonymous individual at the heart of the controversy was, until Monday, known only to the wider world as “Lomez.” Under this name he established Passage Press, a boutique right-wing publishing house which has published authors as varied as the psychedelic German warrior-aristocrat Ernst Junger, the nebbish computer scientist turned monarchist philosopher Curtis Yarvin, the Falangist foreign legionnaire Peter Kemp, and the whimsical golf/human biodiversity enthusiast Steve Sailer, among many others. Through Lomez’s efforts, Passage Press emerged as a unique and singular institution on the online right, absorbing the remnants of the defunct Mystery Grove Press and taking under its wing the bimonthly Man’s World magazine (itself currently embroiled in an unrelated controversy).
These activities caught the attention of Jason Wilson, a Portland-based journalist for The Guardian, whose X profile attests a specialization “covering far right extremism and bad vibes.” Using a litany of circumstantial evidence, Wilson’s article exhaustively connects “Lomez” to a former academic named Jonathan Keeperman, shattering the private man’s closely-guarded anonymity.
Wilson’s hatchet-job is ruthless in its scrutiny of Keeperman’s private life, with the journalist even linking to private photographs from Keeperman’s wedding. Most controversially, Wilson went so far Keeperman’s father’s obituary as a datum of evidence tying him to the Lomez persona—a seemingly redundant detail, given the dearth of information already establishing the connection, the apparent pettiness of which provoked disgust on social media.
This (in)human warthog-looking stalker Jason Wilson from The Guardian (@jason_a_w) used Lomez’s father’s death to doxx him.
Read that sentence again.
He burrowed through obituaries like a warthog looking for cassava roots in the African savanna, shouting “Eureka!” as he made… pic.twitter.com/BSDKGjwi92
— They Truly HATE You (@TheyTrulyHateU) May 14, 2024
The Keeperman revealed in The Guardian‘s hit-piece is a multi-talented family man, a former college basketball player and later a professor at University of California Irvine, who now resides in Montana with his wife and children and seemingly runs Passage Press as his full-time career—a venture which, Wilson notes, is likely very lucrative, given the success of Passage’s costly, luxe “patrician edition” releases.
“At the time of reporting, Passage had sold out its limited run of 500 patrician editions of Noticing at $395 apiece, according to the website,” Wilson wrote, seemingly complimenting his target’s business acumen and appealing product selection. “This equates to some $195,000 in revenue. An earlier patrician edition of winning entries in the 2021 Passage prize sold 250 editions at $400 apiece, according to the website, representing another $100,000 in revenue.
The response on X was swift and overwhelming in its condemnation of Wilson and support for Lomez/Keeperman. When sharing his article on X, Wilson enabled a setting which allows only mutuals to reply, resulting in a mere two replies commending his work. However, there is no such setting to restrict the “quotes” on Wilson’s post, and a cursory browse through these “quotes” reveals an overwhelmingly negative reception to Wilson’s article.
“Lomez is a former college basketball player, gifted writer, successful publisher, and devoted family man,” wrote conservative activist Chris Rufo, who is named in Wilson’s piece as an associate of Lomez, in a post on X. “Jason Wilson, by contrast, is a human worm, who traffics in smears and pestered Lomez’s wife while working on this story. Even the mafia has a greater sense of decency.”
Lomez is a former college basketball player, gifted writer, successful publisher, and devoted family man. Jason Wilson, by contrast, is a human worm, who traffics in smears and pestered Lomez’s wife while working on this story. Even the mafia has a greater sense of decency. https://t.co/v1KxkVYuWm
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) May 14, 2024
Steve Sailer, a stalwart writer for the Unz Review and author of the aforementioned Noticing for Passage Press, also spoke out in response to the attack on his publisher, noticing the curious absence of photos of Keeperman in the piece and attaching a James Dean-esque picture of Keeperman.
“The Guardian has doxxed my Passage Press editor as a cultured, witty, athletic family man, but although they ran pictures of uninvolved randos like Kyle Rittenhouse, they didn’t run any of Lomez. So here’s one of [Lomez] from when he taught at UC Irvine,” Sailer wrote.
“The Guardian” has doxxed my Passage Press editor as a cultured, witty, athletic family man, but although they ran pictures of uninvolved randos like Kyle Rittenhouse, they didn’t run any of Lomez. So here’s one of @L0m3z from when he taught at UC Irvine: https://t.co/mAe4ssa0I6 pic.twitter.com/rFskFyg5LG
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) May 14, 2024
Many users took commented on the newly doxxed Keeperman’s handsome appearance—an observation shared by several student reviewers on RateMyProfessor, as the involuntarily public ex-academic was happy to observe.
.@jason_a_w u mad? pic.twitter.com/Ke6WUc6nRD
— Lomez (@L0m3z) May 14, 2024
Richard Hanania, whose own pseudonymous writings were exposed in a journalistic hit-piece last year, indulged his well-known predilection for publicly admiring the physical attractiveness of other men, recounting a personal anecdote in which he purportedly complimented Keeperman’s looks upon their first encounter.
“When I met Lomez I literally congratulated him on how handsome he was. You missed the golden age of cancelling, you worms don’t matter anymore,” Hanania wrote on X.
When I met Lomez I literally congratulated him on how handsome he was. You missed the golden age of cancelling, you worms don’t matter anymore. https://t.co/DYp1zyAyVw
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) May 14, 2024
Indeed, comments about Keeperman’s appearance have been so ubiquitous that some supportive users have begun to complain about or poke fun at the phenomenon, joking that their community has suddenly gone “gay for Lomez.”
also seems notable that the reaction is split between “Mr. Lomez is extremely hot and I want to blow him” and “these guys are all Jews” pic.twitter.com/yZtUxoBtje
— pre-raphaelite smotherhood (@wavykino_x) May 14, 2024
The Guardian didn’t publish photos of Lomez in their despicable doxxing article because they don’t want you to know how handsome he is! They don’t want you to see his broad shoulders, his strong hands as they untie the knots on my bodice while I stand there overwhelmed by desi…
— Nic (@Elegba99) May 16, 2024
Wilson’s appearance was also scrutinized on X—to a considerably colder reception than Keeperman received, with users commenting on how drastically Wilson’s appearance had changed since a photo dated to 2010.
Jason Wilson before and after he became a regime janitor who doxxes anons. I guess you really do get the face you deserve. pic.twitter.com/lzi0UI1oLa
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) May 15, 2024
Keeperman himself seemed to take the attack in stride, following a suggestion from Chris Rufo to announce a commemoratory sale on Passage’s website. The promo code, naturally, is “Wilson”—commemorating the journalist who has done more to move units of Passage Press releases than any individual this side of Curtis Yarvin.
NOW
shop https://t.co/NPtXCzYyza with promo code Wilson for free shipping. https://t.co/vTYpSPgF8M
— Passage Publishing (@PassagePress) May 14, 2024
In a lengthy thread on X, Keeperman addressed the news more seriously, portraying Wilson as a bitter untermensch and celebrating the success of Passage Press.
“Passage Press will clear a million in sales by the end of this year,” Keeperman wrote. “I am proud of what we’ve built. There is an army of like-minded people behind us, which is why the Antifa doxxer has gone after us, because, like all of his ilk, he is motivated by the self-hate and petty resentments of having to confront his betters. It is not that he is going to lose; it’s that he has already lost. And the best he can do is nip at the heels of those of us marching tall and proud into the future.”
Passage Press will clear a million in sales by the end of this year. I am proud of what we’ve built. There is an army of like-minded people behind us, which is why the Antifa doxxer has gone after us, because, like all of his ilk, he is motivated by the self-hate and petty…
— Lomez (@L0m3z) May 14, 2024
“I regret nothing. I apologize for nothing. God bless you all, even the haters,” he added.
While Keeperman has stood firm in the face of The Guardian‘s attack on his privacy, there is little doubt about the . In a thread about the Guardian article on a subreddit affiliated with Keeperman’s community, users have denounced Keeperman without evidence as a “Nazi” and speculated about members of his family, while supportive comments have been hidden (either by downvoting or moderator fiat). While nothing in the Reddit comments appears to transgress legal limits as of writing, the new of Keeperman’s community members is a foreboding testament to the unwanted exposure he and his family have received—and the heretofore absent potential threats that exposure could bring.
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