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Category Archives: Alt Right
How National Review Helped Build the Alt-Right
From Slate: Early in November, just a few days before the election, a gathering of white nationalists, heterodox academics, libertarians, and other misfits of the right convened in Baltimore. The H.L. Mencken Club was meeting for its ninth annual conference—a … Continue reading
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The Rise Of Christian Kinism
The New Republic is not happy: For alt-right Christians, Russell Moore is the embodiment of where the religious right went wrong—by refusing to openly embrace racism. Throughout his youth, Griffin says, he felt alienated by Christians like Moore who were … Continue reading
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Jenna Jameson’s Shocking Alt-Right Transformation
Aurora Snow writes: Jenna Jameson is once again the talk of the porn industry. An icon with close to 200 adult films under her belt, Jameson is still idolized by many women getting their start in the biz. But there … Continue reading
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The Taming Of The Daily Shoah
Background on the Mike Enoch doxxing. Comments on the recent episode with Greg Johnson: * …the Shoah has become tamer since the doxxing. Doxxing can be a force for good when it countervails the self-defeating extremism that anonymity on the … Continue reading
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Torah Talk: Beshalach (Exodus 13:17–17:16)
This week’s Torah portion is Beshalach (Exodus 13:17–17:16). Listen. * Recap: Joseph designs a plan where the world has to turn over its gold to Egypt survive a long famine, and now with all the world’s gold in Egypt, the … Continue reading
Kahanists Embrace Trump — But Are Divided on ‘Alt-Right’
The Forward: A Twitter user known as AltRabbi wrote online, “Closest thing jews have had to alt right was kahane.” AltRabbi is known online as a religious Jew who is sympathetic to the “alt-right.” “Secular Jews in US are so … Continue reading
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White Supremacist Cheers Trump’s ‘De-Judification’ of Holocaust
The Forward writes: Richard Spencer, the leading ideologue of the “alt-right,” Donald Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jews or anti-Semitism was an important, perhaps revolutionary, step. Spencer dubbed it the “de-Judification” of the Holocaust. Jewish activists, … Continue reading
What White Supremacists Taught A Torah Scholar About Identity
What-White-Supremacists-Taught-a-Jewish-Scholar-About-Identity soc1010sgWhatWhiteSupremacistTaughtJewishSp12 Abby L. Ferber writes (Link): A few years ago, my work on white supremacy led me to the neo-Nazi tract The New Order, which proclaims: “The single serious enemy facing the white man is the Jew.” I must … Continue reading
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The Meaning Of Conservatism
This article makes clear that conservatism has failed and there is a need for an Alternative Right. George Hawley writes in the New York Times: Donald J. Trump campaigned as a populist rather than as a conservative, and won in … Continue reading
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European roots of Trump’s ‘America First’
Jacob Siegel writes for Politico: “The ‘alt-right’ or ‘alternative right’ is a name currently embraced by many white nationalists, neo-Nazis and so called ‘race-realists’ along with a number of other groups in a coalition of the far right. Their ideology … Continue reading