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Not to be confused with Robert Spencer (author).| Richard Bertrand Spencer | |
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| Born | (1978-05-11) May 11, 1978 (age 46) Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Education | St. Mark's School of Texas |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia |
| Occupation(s) | Author, publisher |
| Known for | President of the National Policy Institute |
Richard Bertrand Spencer' (born May 11, 1978) is an American writer, publisher, and self-described "identitarian" and white separatist. He is president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think-tank, and Washington Summit Publishers, an independent publishing firm.
Early life and career
Richard Spencer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas. In 2001, he received a B.A. from the University of Virginia and, in 2003, an M.A. from the University of Chicago. He was later a doctoral student at Duke University, before leaving to pursue a career in journalism. Spencer became an assistant editor at The American Conservative magazine in 2007; subsequently he was the executive editor of Taki's Magazine. In 2010, he founded Alternative Right, a website that he edited until 2012. Spencer has been published at Right Now!, American Renaissance, VDARE, The Occidental Observer, and others.
In 2012, he founded Radix Journal as a biannual publication of Washington Summit Publishers. Contributors have included Kevin B. MacDonald, Alex Kurtagic, Samuel T. Francis, and Derek Turner. He also hosts a weekly podcast, Vanguard Radio (a successor to AltRight Radio).
Groups and events Spencer has spoken to include the Property and Freedom Society, National Policy Institute, and the HL Mencken Club.
Views
Greg Johnson, then-editor of The Occidental Quarterly, stressed how Spencer's concept of the "Alternative Right" was to collect a variety of perspectives that are outside the purview of the American Conservative movement:
will attract the brightest 'young' conservatives and libertarians and expose them to far broader intellectual horizons, including race realism, White Nationalism, the European New Right, the Conservative Revolution, Traditionalism, neo-paganism, agrarianism, Third Positionism, anti-feminism, and right-wing anti-capitalists, ecologists, bioregionalists, and small-is-beautiful types.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Spencer advocates for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and calls for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.
The Anti-Defamation League cited him in 2013 as "a leader in white supremacist circles", and says that since his time at The American Conservative, he has rejected conservatism, because according to Spencer, its adherents "can't or won't represent explicitly white interests". In a 2016 interview for Time, Spencer said that he rejected white supremacy and slavery of nonwhites, preferring to establish a white ethnostate.
According to a 2010 article by Alex Knepper on FrumForum.com, Spencer is an admirer of Friedrich Nietzsche.
See also
References
- "American Racists Work to Spread 'Identitarian' Ideology". Southern Poverty Law Center. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ "Richard Bertrand Spencer". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2015-05-11.
- "Who We Are: NPI's Leadership". National Policy Institute. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
- "Radix Journal". Washington Summit Publishers. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- Sean Gabb (June 15, 2010). "PFS 2010 - Richard Spencer, The "Alternative Right" in America". Vimeo.
- Spencer, Richard (April 30, 2013). "Facing the Future as a Minority". National Policy Institute.
- "RICHARD SPENCER KICKS OFF THE FOURTH ANNUAL HLMC MEETING". The Mencken Club.
- Johnson, Greg (March 2, 2010). "Richard Spencer Launches Alternative Right". The Occidental Quarterly. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
- Kirchick, James (2014-10-18). "A Racist's Crazy Ski Resort Smackdown". The Daily Beast. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
- Scott, Tristan (November 26, 2014). "Who is Richard Spencer?". Flathead Beacon. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- "Richard Spencer: A Symbol of the New White Supremacy". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- Altman, Alex (April 14, 2016). "The Billionaire and the Bigots: How Donald Trump's Campaign Brought White Nationalists Out of the Shadows". Time. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|subscription=ignored (|url-access=suggested) (help) - Knepper, Alex. "Richard Spencer's Nordic Supermen". FrumForum.com.
