Category Archives: Alt Lite

Richard Spencer & Vayishlach

Listen here and here. This week’s Torah portion is Vayishlach (Gen. 32:4 – 36:43). “In the parashah, Jacob reconciles with Esau after wrestling with a “man,” the prince Shechem rapes Dinah and her brothers sack the city of Shechem in … Continue reading

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Making Sense of the Alt Right by George Hawley

Here are selections from this superb new book: * Given everything that occurred in 2016, most observers can be forgiven for failing to note one additional bizarre moment when, in late August, Clinton experienced one of the weirdest examples of … Continue reading

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The Right After Charlottesville

The Alt Right disaster last weekend reminds me of Hitler’s failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Who knows what’s coming next. Greg Johnson said last Thursday, Aug. 17, to Vox Day: “National socialism today is a perverse self-marginalizing self-defeating tendency. It’s … Continue reading

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