ABSTRACT
Jason Reza Jorjani is a leading figure within the contemporary Alt-right. He was editor-in-chief of Daniel Friberg’s Arktos Media; he was Richard Spencer’s most visible partner in the cofounding of the AltRight Corporation; and he has participated in events organized by Greg Johnson, Spencer’s leading rival within the Alt-right intelligentsia. Jorjani has denied that he is a fascist or racist; he is currently in the process of suing the New Jersey Institute of Technology for terminating his contract as a philosophy instructor following publication of a New York Times report that presented Jorjani as enamored with Hitler. Is he a genuine philosopher or a dangerous crank (or perhaps both)? In my chapter, I survey and provide commentary on a few of Jorjani’s more alarming interventions in the world of ideas in order to get a bit more of a handle on this cryptic personality, and what his influence on the Alt-right tells us about the actual meaning of the Alt-right.
