Five Reasons Why Alt-Righters (and the Illiberal Right) Love Nietzsche

Sounding out the Idol of the postmodernist Nietzsche

To read some accounts, you’d think that there was a deep mystery about the continuing attraction of the illiberal Right to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, an attraction which goes from Edwardian eugenicists to Richard Spencer and others today.

One author has suggested that “it could happen” to “any” philosopher, despite the fact that it has — repeatedly — not happened to every other Western…