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'{{mergefrom|Alt-right|discuss=Talk:Alt-right#RfC:_Merge_to_Richard_B._Spencer|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person |name = Richard Bertrand Spencer |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|05|11}} |birth_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] |death_date = |death_place = |death_cause = |residence = [[United States]] |nationality = |citizenship = |alma_mater = [[University of Virginia]], [[St. Mark's School of Texas]] |occupation = author, publisher, activist |employer = |known_for = President of the [[National Policy Institute]], political activism |website = }} '''Richard Bertrand Spencer''' (born May 11, 1978) is an American writer, publisher, activist and self-described "[[identitarian]]" known for promoting [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] views.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/11/jared_taylor_richard_spencer_and_american_white_supremacists_in_europe_why.html | title = White Flight | work = Slate | date = 2013-11-30 | accessdate = 2015-05-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://wonkette.com/567150/morning-maddow-heres-how-a-white-supremacist-set-the-gops-immigration-policy-video | title = Here's How A White Supremacist Set The GOP's Immigration Policy | work = wonkette.com | date = 2014-11-20 | accessdate = 2015-06-30 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=GOP's influencers push for another government shutdown, this time over immigration|url=http://on.msnbc.com/1zEGCsZ|accessdate=March 12, 2016|work=The Rachel Maddow Show|date=November 19, 2014}}</ref> He is president of the [[National Policy Institute]], a [[White nationalism|white nationalist]] think-tank, and [[Washington Summit Publishers]], an independent publishing firm. Both institutions have issued studies of culture, society, nationalism, [[eugenics]], and the study of [[race and intelligence]]. Spencer advocates for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and calls for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/Richard_Bertrand_Spencer | title = Richard Bertrand Spencer | work = Southern Poverty Law Center | accessdate = 2015-05-11 }}</ref><ref>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/18/a-racist-s-crazy-ski-resort-imbroglio.html</ref><ref>http://flatheadbeacon.com/2014/11/26/richard-spencer/</ref> ==Early life and career== {{BLP primary sources|section about early life and career|date=July 2015}} 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, a M.A. from the [[University of Chicago]]. Between 2005 and 2007, he was a doctoral student in history at [[Duke University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npiamerica.org/leadership/|title=NPI's Leadership|accessdate=July 23, 2013|publisher=National Policy Institute}}</ref> Spencer has been an assistant editor at [[The American Conservative]] magazine and Editor of ''[[Taki's Magazine]]''. In 2010, he founded ''[[AlternativeRight.com|Alternative Right]]'', a webzine that he edited until 2012. Spencer has been published at [[Right Now! (magazine)|Right Now!]], The American Conservative, [[American Renaissance]], [[VDARE.com]], The [[Occidental Observer]], and other publications. In 2012, he founded ''Radix Journal''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://washsummit.com/radix-journal/|title=Radix Journal|accessdate=July 23, 2013|publisher=Washington Summit Publishers}}</ref> 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 [[Alternative Right|AltRight Radio]]). Spencer has been a guest speaker at [[Hans-Hermann Hoppe]]'s [[Property and Freedom Society]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vimeo.com/12598049|title=PFS 2010 - Richard Spencer, The "Alternative Right" in America|author=Sean Gabb|date=June 15, 2010|work=Vimeo}}</ref> The Traditional Britain Group,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXGOWJbt2BU|title=Richard Spencer - Why We Need Europe|work=YouTube|date=October 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSSKSK1ZHdI|title=Richard Spencer - The American Right: Can Americans be Conservatives?| date=November 8, 2012|work=YouTube}}</ref> American Renaissance,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npiamerica.org/the-national-policy-institute/blog/facing-the-future-as-a-minority|title=Facing the Future as a Minority|date=April 30, 2013|author=Spencer, Richard}}</ref> and the HL Mencken Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hlmenckenclub.org/|title=The Mencken Club}}</ref> ==Views== 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 [[Conservatism in the United States|American Conservative movement]]:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.toqonline.com/blog/richard-spencer-launches-alternative-right/|publisher= The Occidental Quarterly|title=Richard Spencer Launches Alternative Right|author=Johnson, Greg Johnson|date=March 2, 2010|accessdate=May 27, 2011}}</ref> {{quote|[Alternative Right] will attract the brightest 'young' conservatives and [[libertarianism|libertarians]] and expose them to far broader intellectual horizons, including [[Racial realism|race realism]], White Nationalism, the [[Nouvelle Droite|European New Right]], the Conservative Revolution, [[Traditionalist School|Traditionalism]], [[Neopaganism|neo-paganism]], [[agrarianism]], [[Third Position]]ism, [[Antifeminism|anti-feminism]], and right-wing [[Anti-capitalism|anti-capitalists]], [[Ecology movement|ecologists]], [[Bioregionalism|bioregionalists]], and [[Small Is Beautiful|small-is-beautiful]] types.}} Spencer advocates a non-interventionist foreign policy and has criticized both [[neoconservatism]] and [[humanitarian intervention]]ism. In July 2012 Richard Spencer was interviewed by the Russian-based television network RT about the situation in Libya and harshly criticized US policies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uUUmGG2r_w|publisher=RT|title=Thugs, Islamists & chaos' - welcome to New Libya?|work= Russia Today|date=2012-07-09|accessdate=2013-08-06}}</ref> The [[Anti-Defamation League]] reports: {{quote|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.adl.org/extremism/richard-spencer-a-symbol-of-the-new-white-supremacy|title=Richard Spencer: A Symbol of the New White Supremacy|accessdate= July 23, 2013}}</ref>}} ==See also== *[[Alt-right]] ==References== {{reflist|2}} {{White nationalism}} {{Persondata | NAME = Spencer, Richard B. | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American publisher, and activis | DATE OF BIRTH = May 11, 1978 | PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Spencer, Richard B.}} [[Category:1978 births]] [[Category:Writers from Boston, Massachusetts]] [[Category:University of Chicago alumni]] [[Category:Far-right politics in the United States]] [[Category:University of Virginia alumni]] [[Category:St. Mark's School (Texas) alumni]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American white nationalists]] [[Category:White supremacists]]'