Michael H. Hart

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Michael H. Hart (born April 28, 1932 in New York City) is an American astrophysicist turned author and activist. He has worked for NASA and been a professor of astronomy at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland and a professor of physics at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He holds degrees in physics, astronomy, and law and is the author of the book, The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, which has been translated into a number of languages.

Hart, who describes himself as a white separatist^[1], has been a frequent attendee of conferences held by the New Century Foundation, publisher of the American Renaissance, which has been described as a "racist newsletter" by the Southern Poverty Law Center.^{[2] [3]} Hart delivered a paper at a 1996 conference describing his proposal to partition the United States into four states: a white state, a black state, a Hispanic state, and an integrated mixed-race state.^[4] At a 1994 conference, he had a public confrontation with former Klansman and former Louisiana politician David Duke over Duke's anti-Semitic remarks during a speech (Hart is Jewish.).^[3]

[edit] Bibliography

• The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, 1978
• Extra-Terrestrials, Where Are They? (co-edited with Ben Zuckerman), 1982
• A View from the Year 3000

[edit] Further reading

• Interview with Michael H. Hart by Russell K. Neili, April 14, 2000. Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America, edited by Carol M. Swain and Russ Nieli, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pg. 184–202.

[edit] References

1. ^ Swain and Nieli, page 201.
2. ^ Swain and Neili, page 184.
3. ^ ^{a b} Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok, "Irreconcilable Differences: A schism over anti-Semitism threatens a key 'white nationalist' group. The outcome could be critical to the radical right.", Southern Poverty Law Center.
4. ^ Swain and Nieli, pages 184–5.