Extremists, Groups, & Ideologies

Michael Levin, professor of philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY), is an unabashed white supremacist who argues that black people are innately less intelligent, less moral, and more criminal than their white peers.

Educational psychologist Linda Gottfredson has spent more than three decades fighting against the idea that social equality between black and white Americans is possible, or even desirable.

Despite Horowitz being a founding intellectual member of the New Left in the 1960s, and an advocate for civil rights and equality, he has since the late 1980s become a driving force of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-black movements.

Brigitte Tudor, better known as Brigitte Gabriel, founded ACT for America in 2007 at a time when the anti-Muslim movement was beginning to take shape in the United States. Both national and local in scope, the group uses their political inroads to spread Islamophobia and, via an expansive chapter network, lobby lawmakers to introduce anti-Muslim…

Founded in 1988 by former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney Jr., The Center for Security Policy went from a hawkish think tank focused on foreign affairs to a conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece for the anti-Muslim movement in the United States.

Roger Pearson is a retired British anthropologist and purveyor of extreme racist and anti-Semitic ideas. Over the course of his career, Pearson has been a fierce defender of “Aryan” racial superiority, and has maintained ties to numerous Nazi and neo-Nazi groups and individuals, promoting and publishing their theories in pseudo-academic journals like Mankind Quarterly, which…

Liberty Counsel is a legal organization advocating for anti-LGBT discrimination under the guise of religious liberty.

Henry Harpending was a controversial anthropologist at the University of Utah who studied human evolution and, in his words, “genetic diversity within and between human populations.”

As head of the National Policy Institute, Richard Spencer is one of the country’s most successful young white nationalist leaders — a suit-and-tie version of the white supremacists of old, a kind of professional racist in khakis. Spencer has been credited with creating the term “alt-right.”

David Lane has spent most of his career as a key background organizer for the evangelical community.