| URL | http://www.AlternativeRight.com |
|---|---|
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | National Policy Institute |
| Launched | March 1, 2010[1] |
| Current status | active |
Alternative Right, or AlternativeRight.com, is a paleoconservative website which presents itself as "an online magazine of radical traditionalism," and "an attempt to forge a new, independent intellectual Right."[2] The website is often referred to as "AltRight." Alternative Right was founded by Richard B. Spencer, who was formerly an editor at The American Conservative magazine and Taki's Magazine. In 2010, AltRight became a media project of the National Policy Institute.
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The Editors-in-chief are author Alex Kurtagić and Richard Spencer.
Additional contributors include Peter Brimelow, Jack Donovan, Drew Fraser, Dr. Paul E. Gottfried, Richard Hoste, James Kalb, Nina Kouprianova, Colin Liddell, Scott Locklin, Andy Nowicki, Keith Preston, Steve Sailer, Jared Taylor, Srđa Trifković, Derek Turner, Elizabeth D. Wright, and various others.
AltRight Radio[3] is Alternative Right's official podcast. It is an interview program hosted by Richard Spencer. Prominent guests have included Patrick Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Stephen McNallen, Bill Murphy, Tomislav Sunic, Thomas E. Woods Jr., and others.
In the spring of 2010, AltRight founder Richard B. Spencer addressed Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Property and Freedom Society's annual conference[4] at Bodrum, Turkey. There he discussed[5] numerous intellectual currents within 20th century American conservatism, and the status of the larger phenomenon increasingly referenced as "the alternative right."[6][7]
AltRight has been subject to criticism from both the left and the right. Examples of the former include the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has characterized the site as "yet another far-right magazine," as well as "loaded with contributors who...have long lamented the white man’s decline."[8] Conservative critiques include E.D. Kain's contention at True/Slant, that "the far-right-wingers at Alternative Right represent the ugly – and yes racist – underbelly of ‘alt’ conservatism. This is white nationalism, folks, dressed up in faux-intellectualism."[9]
In March 2010, Spencer was interviewed by Tim Mak of FrumForum, the online magazine of George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum. Mak concluded that AltRight's "ideas belong in some sort of padded room," and that its writers are "going to be white nationalists, but, by God, they’re going to be a little fancy about it."[10]
Greg Johnson of The Occidental Quarterly, extolls AltRight as a publication he "hope[s]...will attract the brightest young conservatives and libertarians and expose them to far broader intellectual horizons, including race realism, White Nationalism, the European New Right, the Conservative Revolution, Traditionalism, neo-paganism, agrarianism, Third Positionism, anti-feminism, and right-wing anti-capitalists, ecologists, bioregionalists, and small-is-beautiful types."[11]
Journalist Rich Johnston wrote an article lampooning public comments left by readers of AltRight (in response to the publication's cinematic review of 2011's Thor), characterizing the review itself as "relatively measured and muted."[12]