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Richard Bertrand Spencer (born May 11, 1978) is an American writer, publisher, and activist. He is President of , a think-tank, and , an independent publishing firm. Both institutions have issued studies of culture, society, nationalism, eugenics, and the study of .


EARLY LIFE

Richard Spencer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Dallas, Texas. In 2001, he received a BA from the and, in 2003, a MA from the University of Chicago. Between 2005-2007, he was a doctoral student in History at Duke University.

CAREER

Spencer has an assistant editor at The American Conservative magazine and Editor of Taki's Magazine (takimag.com). In 2010, he founded , a webzine that he edited until 2012.

In 2012, he founded Radix Journal as biannual publication of Washington Summit Publishers. He also hosts a weekly podcast, Vanguard Radio (a successor to ).

Spencer has been a guest speaker at Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Property and Freedom Society (2010), The Traditional Britain Group (2012) American Renaissance (2013), and the HL Mencken Club.

VIEWS

The Anti-Defamation League reports,

Spencer has become a leader in white suprema­cist cir­cles that envi­sion a 'new' right that will openly embrace 'white racial con­scious­ness'. . . . Although Spencer began his career The Amer­i­can Con­ser­v­a­tive, he has since rejected con­ser­vatism. He believes that con­ser­v­a­tives can’t or won’t rep­re­sent explic­itly white interests. In 2013, Spencer spoke at the American Renaissance conference and advocated that nationalists reject immigration and focus on the long-term goal of establishing a "White ethno-state in the North American continent.

CONTROVERSIES

Spencer has been criticized for views that have been termed "White Supremacist" and for his associations with some in the .

The Anti-Defemation League has labeled Spencer "a sym­bol of a new gen­er­a­tion of intel­lec­tual white suprema­cists."<r>

In May of 2013, Yahoo! News reported that Jason Richwine, then a scholar at and co-author of a controversial study on the costs of amnesty, had published an article<r> and blog<r> at AlternativeRight.com in 2010. The Rachel Maddow Show publicized these findings in a segment of the program on May 9, 2013.<, "Maddow Rips Conservative Think Tank For Immigration Study Co-Author Who Claimed Latinos Have Lower IQs" (retrieved July 23rd, 2013).</ref>


References

  1. <, "Radix Journal," (retrieved July 23rd, 2013).
  2. <, "Richard Spencer: A Symbol fo the New White Supremacy," (retrieved July 23rd, 2013)