Washington Summit Publishers

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Washington Summit Publishers
StatusActive
Founded2006
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Augusta, Georgia [1]
DistributionInternational
Nonfiction topics Racialism, eugenics, nationalism
Official website washsummit.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 31 March 2022))

Washington Summit Publishers (WSP) is a white nationalist publisher based in Augusta, Georgia, [1] which produces and sells books on race and intelligence and related topics. The company is run by white supremacist Richard B. Spencer, who is also director of the National Policy Institute.

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History

Before Spencer, the company was run by Louis Andrews. He was also director of the National Policy Institute and managing editor of The Occidental Quarterly , both heavily funded by William Regnery II.[ citation needed ]

In 2013, the company was listed as being headquartered in Whitefish, Montana. [2] As of 2019, the company had moved to Augusta, Georgia. [1]

Authors

Authors published by WSP include J. Philippe Rushton, Kevin B. MacDonald, Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen, and Michael H. Hart.

Journal

WSP has published Radix Journal through its imprint Radix. [3] The biannual publication has described itself as "a periodical on culture, race, metapolitics, critical theory, and society." [4] Contributors have included Jared Taylor, Kevin B. MacDonald, Alex Kurtagić, and Samuel T. Francis.[ citation needed ]

Subjects

This company has published content supportive of white nationalism and white supremacy. "Human biodiversity" (HBD), an alt-right euphemism for scientific racism, was one of the main publishing subjects of Washington Summit Publishers. [5] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said in 2006 that the company had reprinted racist tracts along with books promoting antisemitism and eugenics. In 2015, the SPLC listed Washington Summit Publishers as a white nationalist hate group. [6] [7]

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References

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  2. Burghart, Devin (23 October 2013). "White Nationalists Descend on D.C. for National Policy Institute Conference". Institute for Research & Education of Human Rights. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  3. "About Radix Journal". Washington Summit Publishers. Archived from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  4. Burghart, Devin (June 27, 2014). "Who is Richard Spencer?". Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  5. Fielitz, Maik; Thurston, Nick (2019). Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. p. 29. ISBN   978-3837646702.
  6. "Active White Nationalist Groups". Southern Poverty Law Center. 3 March 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  7. "Intelligence Report: The New Racialists". Southern Poverty Law Center. Summer 2006. Retrieved 19 October 2022.