Richard Spencer 
Richard Spencer is the executive editor of the Alternative Right webzine and former managing editor of Takimag.
Taki's TV
Taki TV – Catcher In The Rye Author DiesJan 29 2010 “I’m known as a strange, aloof kind of man,” Salinger told the New York Times, in 1974. “But all I’m trying to do is trying |
Taki's TV
Taki TV – The Problem With The FedJan 29 2010 This extraordinary film from The Mises Institute—which features Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell—is a clear and compelling analysis of the Fed, |
Obamunism
The Great Liberal FallacyJan 14 2010 I have trouble even talking with people about "healthcare reform." The problem is, whenever someone says something like "46 million Americans are uninsured!" (usually followed |
Neocons
Was Irving Kristol a CIA Plot?Sep 24 2009 Sure, we should all give "two (very qualified) cheers" for Irving Kristol (1920-2009), the tireless writer, political eminence grise, and longtime editor at Commentary, Encounter, |
War
Willful BlindnessSep 09 2009 In two successive editorials in the Washington Post, George Will has officially announced that it's time to bring our national boondoggles to an end and |
Zeitgeist
Holocaust RevisionismAug 29 2009 I should first admit that it took quite a lot for me to actually go see Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's latest about a special Army |
Obamacare
SickosAug 10 2009 Though it's been said that a "liberal" is someone willing to argue against his own position in a dispute, a characteristic quality of the contemporary |
Blogosphere
The Narcissism RevolutionJun 20 2009 It will be Twitterized! Leave it to the neocons, their congressional allies, and much of the "conservative" blogosphere to make Barack Obama look like an |
Law
America’s Wise Latina LadyMay 26 2009 Once upon a time, there were The Founders. Though tragically trapped in their slave holding and lack of gender and ethnic diversity, these wise fellows |
Zeitgeist
White Like UsMay 22 2009 For a webzine attempting to carve out an "Alternative Right," and one dedicated to a fearless assault on PC in all its varieties, the topics |
The Stupid Party
A Hypocrisy That Can Win AgainMay 13 2009 Someone once told to me that at a John Randolph Club meeting back in the "90s, a man in the audience asked Sam Francis whether |
Bizarro World
Thoroughly Modern MarxismMay 01 2009 Not too long ago, Christopher Hitchens was busying himself justifying George W. Bush, the neocons, and the Iraq war"er, "liberation""on avowedly Marxian grounds. (It would |
Taki's TV
Taki TV – Cheney for PresidentApr 29 2009 Ross Douthat worries that Republicans might not be socialist enough. |
Grassroots
Are the Tea Parties Radical and Paranoid Enough?Apr 16 2009 According to Paul Krugman, the some 700 "Tea Parties" that sprung up in all 50 states yesterday weren"t really about taxes and government spending. They |
Takimag TV
Peter Schiff: “The American Economy is a Ponzi Scheme”Mar 09 2009 Back when Treasury Secretary "Hank" Paulson was informing us all that the U.S. economy was "fundamentally healthy," and the global economy A-okay, Peter Schiff was |
Media
Front-Porch SocialismMar 06 2009 I"m always glad to see the proliferation of websites and blogs of the "Alternative Right" (broadly defined), and I was thus delighted to learn of |
Taki's TV
Taki TV – Peter Schiff InterviewMar 04 2009 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 |
Economy
The Economic Apocalypse Isn”t So BadFeb 11 2009 So cheer up! Austin's essay on the distinction between "tragic" and "comic" libertarianism was sparked, I gather, from some email conversations between the two of |
Media
Culture SnoresFeb 05 2009 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 |
Zeitgeist
Prince Harry’s Hate CrimeJan 13 2009 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 |
Uncategorized
A Damn Foolish ThingJan 08 2009 Why Israel Loses Asymmetric Wars I"ve been reluctant to write about Israel's bombardment and invasion of Gaza this past two weeks for the simple reason |
Uncategorized
The Old Right and the AntichristDec 16 2008 The following address was given to the H.L. Mencken Club's Annual Meeting; November 21-23, 2008. Before William F. Buckley settled on writing God and Man |
Uncategorized
Save American Industry, Dump the Big ThreeDec 13 2008 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 |
Politics
Size MattersDec 11 2008 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 |
Zeitgeist
The Death of AIDSDec 09 2008 This weekend I attended an engrossing production of The Seagull on Broadway"and I was lucky enough to be accompanied by the intelligent and beautiful great |
Media
The End of Frum?Nov 19 2008 David Frum has been purged off into the sunset at NR... He’s leaving his NRO blogging gig at the end of the year and plans |
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