Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer is the executive editor of the Alternative Right webzine and former managing editor of Takimag.


Are the Tea Parties Radical and Paranoid Enough?

According to Paul Krugman, the some 700 "€œTea Parties"€ that sprung up in all 50 states yesterday weren"€™t really about taxes and government spending. They were instead an opportunity for the disposed yahoodom of fly-over country to huddle ...

Peter Schiff: “€œThe American Economy is a Ponzi Scheme”€

Back when Treasury Secretary "€œHank"€ Paulson was informing us all that the U.S. economy was "€œfundamentally healthy,"€ and the global economy A-okay, Peter Schiff was saying something quite different, indeed"€”and was being scoffed at ...

Front-Porch Socialism

I"€™m always glad to see the proliferation of websites and blogs of the "€œAlternative Right"€ (broadly defined), and I was thus delighted to learn of the launching of "€œFront-Porch Republic."€ My initial sense was that it might capture ...

Taki TV – Peter Schiff Interview

Peter Schiff discusses the sub-7000 Dow, the reason for all those “mortgage-backed securities,” his father and the income tax, and why the real economic collapse is yet to ...

The Economic Apocalypse Isn”€™t So Bad

So cheer up! Austin's essay on the distinction between "€œtragic"€ and "€œcomic"€ libertarianism was sparked, I gather, from some email conversations between the two of us in which I"€™ve been waxing tragic (if not always displaying my ...

Culture Snores

The webzine Culture11 officially closed up shop last week, ending a four month run as the web's alternative conservative destination.  Late last summer, I first heard rumors that there was a new well-funded conservative webzine in the works, ...

Prince Harry’s Hate Crime

I guess I"€™m supposed to be shocked and dismayed by the clips, released this weekend, of Prince Harry using some rather mild racial language and generally acting like a buffoon while his First Mechanized Brigade's tours Iraq. But for some reason ...

A Damn Foolish Thing

I"€™ve been reluctant to write about Israel's bombardment and invasion of Gaza this past two weeks for the simple reason that the ordeal has struck me as, to borrow a phrase from Bismarck, "€œsome damned foolish thing"€ in the Hold ...

The Old Right and the Antichrist

The great American journalist H.L. Mencken made of his whole career a kind of one-man "€œrevolt against the masses"€ kamikaze mission. In the Menckenian imagination, the "€œsuperior man"€ (a category of person in which Mencken, no doubt, ...

Save American Industry, Dump the Big Three

The majority of the American people oppose bailing out the Bit Three automakers at a clip of 61 to 36, and it was thus perfectly sensible for Senate Republicans to reject the $14 billion "€œrescue"€ bill that was presented to them on Friday. ...

Size Matters

The Beltway Right is still venting its collective spleen over Bill Kristol's latest Times op-ed in which he argues, rather elliptically, that the conservative movement and GOP should get rid of its "€œsmall government,"€ "€œrugged ...


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