Background
Richard Spencer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from Saint Mark"s School of Texas.
Richard Spencer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from Saint Mark"s School of Texas.
University of Chicago. University of Virginia.
He is president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think-tank, and Washington Summit Publishers, an independent publishing firm. In 2001, he received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia and, in 2003, a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago. Between 2005 and 2007, he was a doctoral student in history at Duke University.
Spencer has been an assistant editor at The American Conservative magazine and Editor of Taki"s Magazine.
In 2010, he founded Alternative Right, a webzine that he edited until 2012. Spencer has been published at Right Now!, The American Conservative, American Renaissance, VDARE.com, The Occidental Observer, and other publications.
In 2012, he founded Radix Journal as biannual publication of Washington Summit Publishers. Contributors included Kevin B. MacDonald, Alex Kurtagic, Samuel T. Francis, Andy Nowicki, Derek Turner, and others
He also hosts a weekly podcast, Vanguard Radio (a successor to AltRight Radio).
Spencer has been a guest speaker at Hans-Hermann Hoppe"s Property and Freedom Society, The Traditional Britain Group, American Renaissance, and the HL Mencken Club. Greg Johnson, then-editor of The Occidental Quarterly, stressed how Spencer"s concept of the "Alternative Right" was about bringing together a wide variety of perspectives that are outside the purview of the American Conservative movement: Spencer has become a leader in white supremacist circles that envision a "new" right that will openly embrace "white racial consciousness".
Both institutions have issued studies of culture, society, nationalism, eugenics, and the study of race and intelligence. Spencer advocates a non-interventionist foreign policy and has criticized both neoconservatism and humanitarian interventionism.. Although Spencer began his career The American Conservative, he has since rejected conservatism.
Greg Johnson, then-editor of The Occidental Quarterly, stressed how Spencer"s concept of the "Alternative Right" was about bringing together a wide 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.
Spencer advocates a non-interventionist foreign policy and has criticized both neoconservatism and humanitarian interventionism. In July 2012 Richard Spencer was interviewed by the Russian-based television network Reality Therapy about the situation in Libya and harshly criticized United States policies.
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.
