| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2006 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Augusta, Georgia[1] |
| Distribution | International |
| Nonfiction topics | Racialism,eugenics,nationalism |
| Official website | washsummit.com at theWayback Machine (archived 31 March 2022)) |
Washington Summit Publishers (WSP) is awhite nationalist publisher based inAugusta, Georgia,[1] which produces and sells books onrace and intelligence and related topics. The company is run bywhite supremacistRichard B. Spencer, who also ran the defunct white supremacistNational Policy Institute.
Before Spencer, the company was run by Louis Andrews. He was also director of the National Policy Institute and managing editor ofThe Occidental Quarterly, both heavily funded byWilliam Regnery II.[citation needed]
In 2013, the company was listed as being headquartered inWhitefish, Montana.[2] As of 2019, the company had moved to Augusta, Georgia.[1]
Authors published by WSP includeJ. Philippe Rushton,Kevin B. MacDonald,Richard Lynn,Tatu Vanhanen, andMichael H. Hart.
WSP publishedRadix Journal through its imprint Radix.[3] Contributors have includedKerry Bolton,Peter Brimelow,Samuel T. Francis,Kevin B. MacDonald,William Regnery II,Alex Kurtagić, andJared Taylor.[citation needed] The last article on RadixJournal.com was published in April 2021 and its last podcast episode was released in September of the same year; the website was taken offline in June 2023.[4][5] Spencer started publishing a Substack under the nameRadix Journal in April 2022, it later was rebranded as ALEXANDRIA.[6]
This company has published content supportive of white nationalism and white supremacy. "Human biodiversity" (HBD), analt-right euphemism forscientific racism, was one of the main publishing subjects of Washington Summit Publishers.[7] TheSouthern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said in 2006 that the company had reprinted racist tracts along with books promotingantisemitism andeugenics. In 2015, the SPLClisted Washington Summit Publishers as a white nationalist hate group.[8][9]
