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Category Archives: Alt Right
The Credentialed Dissident: Jean-François Gariépy and the YouTube Era
Jean‑François Gariépy emerged from the intersection of academic neuroscience, internet subcultures, and dissident political media during the second half of the 2010s. Trained in biology and neuroscience in Québec, he completed doctoral work on respiratory neural networks at the Université … Continue reading
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Lauren Southern and the Platform Insurgency: A Career in Decentralized Ideological Entrepreneurship
Lauren Cherie Southern, born June 16, 1995, in Surrey, British Columbia, is a Canadian writer, documentary filmmaker, and former political commentator associated with the online nationalist and dissident-right media sphere of the mid-2010s. She studied political science at the University … Continue reading
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Ashley St. Clair and the Platform Era of American Conservatism
Ashley St. Clair (b. 1998) is an American writer, political commentator, and social media figure who rose to visibility within the conservative digital media ecosystem of the late 2010s and early 2020s. Born July 31, 1998, in Florida and raised … Continue reading
The Asian Wife Pattern on the American National Right
The pattern is hard to miss once you see it. JD Vance (b. 1984) married Usha Chilukuri Vance (b. 1986), Indian-American and Hindu by background, at Yale Law School. Christopher Rufo (b. 1984) married Suphatra Paravichai, a Thai immigrant who … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of America’s Dissident Right Now
Dissident right leaders believe their movement represents a genuine intellectual insurgency against the failures of mainstream conservatism rather than primarily a coalition of people whose shared characteristic is that they have been excluded from or rejected by mainstream conservative institutions … Continue reading
‘Once a coalition confuses spectacle for power, the fire is already lit.’
I love this insight from ChatGPT: “Once a coalition confuses spectacle for power, the fire is already lit.” That explains the slew of dumpster fires on the far right. Gemini says: The collapse of the Alt-Right illustrates how spectacle functions … Continue reading
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The Middle Path
Paul Gottfried writes Feb. 1, 2026: A recent discussion among our editorial board focused on how we can navigate the vital center between two unacceptable positions on what now passes for the American right. Those two unacceptable positions are, on … Continue reading
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Eric Kaufman: The Truth Behind the Groyper Panic
We don’t have to take people at their word unless we have overwhelming reason to do so. Normally, people do not say what they mean nor do they mean what they say. Instead, they say what is expected from them … Continue reading
How Two Jews – Nathan Cofnas, Mike Benz – Ate The Alt-Right
The Alt-Right built its identity around the claim that Jewish intellectuals subvert Gentile movements from within. That claim found its empirical vindication when two men of Jewish descent dismantled the Alt-Right from inside its own intellectual territory. Nathan Cofnas attacked … Continue reading
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