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Category Archives: William Pierce
The Dissident Technocrat: William Luther Pierce and the Making of the Modern Radical Right
William Luther Pierce (1933-2002) was a principal ideological architect of the postwar American radical right. He tried to convert white nationalism from a scattered set of grievances into a complete political, cultural, and spiritual system. Earlier segregationists and populist reactionaries … Continue reading
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From Atlas Shrugged To The Turner Diaries
I’m listening to the new book, End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America. This end of days thinking reminds me of my childhood. I grew up in the Seventh-Day Adventist denomination. I was taught that … Continue reading
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Sins of My Father: Growing Up with America’s Most Dangerous White Supremacist
William Pierce’s son Kelvin writes in his 2020 biography: * He would fly into sudden violent, volcanic rages, to the point that he even killed the only two living things he truly loved, our sweet Siamese cats. The only time … Continue reading
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Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind
The author is a Jewish anti-racist campaigner of many decades. His book nonetheless has received plaudits from white nationalists for its fairness. It’s the best book of its kind. From pages 57-58: William Pierce put it squarely. “A morality which … Continue reading
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Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream, by Leonard Zeskind
Here is Evelyn Rich’s story in her own words. She has a PhD from Boston University in Sociology and African-American Studies (with her dissertation on the ideology of the modern KKK). Book review: Blood and Politics, published this May, is … Continue reading
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The Thru-Line From National Review To Revilo Oliver To William Pierce
Robert S. Griffin writes in his biography of William Pierce: Revilo Oliver was one of the founding members of the John Birch Society and wrote a number of pieces for William Buckley’s magazine National Review in its early years. Oliver … Continue reading
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