Tag: richard spencer

  • The alt-right is drunk on bad readings of Nietzsche. The Nazis were too.

    “You could say I was red-pilled by Nietzsche.” That’s how white nationalist leader Richard Spencer described his intellectual awakening to the Atlantic’s Graeme Wood last June. “Red-pilled” is a common alt-right term for that “eureka moment” one experiences upon confrontation with some dark and previously buried truth. For Spencer and other alt-right enthusiasts of the…