Why Richard Spencer’s Alt-Right Collapsed Under Its Own Contradictions, by Jonas E. Alexis

Jan 2nd 2026 12:10am EST

Spencer was an avid reader of Nietzsche, particularly during the height of the alt-right movement. Immanuel Kant famously remarked that it was David Hume who awakened him from his “dogmatic slumber.” In a comparable sense, Spencer could be said to have attributed a similar intellectual awakening to Nietzsche. As Spencer himself recalled, “One could say…

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