White Radical Agent Provocateur: An Alex Linder Remembrance

The first and only time I met Alex Linder in person was at a Shakespeare’s Pizza in Columbia, Missouri more than 20 years ago. The rest of the encounters took place over email, or under the original red, blue and yellow banner of the Vanguard News Network.

The Madison Avenue-ready motto: “No Jews. Just Right.”

Linder, who died in June, 2025 at age 59, was the site’s editor. It was one of the most explosive white advocacy publications to ever to flash pixels. VNN, as it was also known, combined crude epithets, clever neologisms (“Amerikwa” combined America and Kwa Zulu, the autonomous zone for Zulus in South Africa), Yiddish endings (itz coming), the brilliant “spintro”, a pithy paragraph-like piece of writing that preceded a link, original writings, and links to other pro-white sources.

It was enough to earn Linder a visit from the FBI. Also, a place in the Internet archives of the Library of Congress.

At Shakespeare’s, I wondered if the table was bugged (and he may have wondered if I were wearing a wire), but within a few minutes, I gathered he was serious. He handed me some CD’s of material he’d burned, and it was the first time I’d ever heard another human being use the term “pro-white” out loud.

It was jarring, even for someone like me, who was in the early stages of exploring white advocacy. I don’t know what to make of the fact that of all the white advocates out there, he was the first one I met in person.

I held to his resumé to persuade myself he wasn’t completely nuts: graduate of academically strong Pomona College, a researcher for Evans & Novak (one of my parents’ favorite shows), and some kind of work for The American Spectator, though I never saw a byline. His interest in D.C. politics and journalism matched mine.

The white-hot intensity of Linder’s thinking and writing prevented anything resembling a normal life, or even a “normal” life of white advocacy. He clashed with just about everyone. He lobbed insults at Sam Francis, Jared Taylor and Peter Brimelow, among others — men who themselves suffered repercussions for white advocacy, but whose failure to “Name the Jew” to his satisfaction earned his scorn.

Of Pat Buchanan he said: “When you talk about Hitler, you’re looking up, not down.” He associated with a man who committed a shooting at a synagogue that resulted in the death of three people, none of whom were Jewish.

How this advanced the cause of white advocacy is anyone’s guess.

Jesus Christ was “jeeboo”, as in, “if you believe in jeeboo, white man, you’ll believe in anything,and that’ll get you dead.” Not an exact quote — I’m going for the spirit.

On VDare, Brimelow called him “a white radical agent provocateur… savagely witty but scabrously incorrect … and “whatever else you can say about Linder, he can write.”

One wonders what Linder would have said about Nick Fuentes.

“No Way Out But Through the Jew” he would write, over and over, a phrase that could of course be interpreted as “a critical mass of whites must understand Jews and their motivations, and work to decrease their influence, if we are to survive”, instead of mass killing, which is surely how the ADL would interpret it.

Of course, Israel acts as if there is “No Way Out But Through the Palestinian”, and few seem bothered — or, if they do, Israel is proceeding apace nevertheless. Nor does Baruch Goldstein’s massacre of worshippers at a mosque seem to cause personal embarrassment or discomfort to Jews.

Note for the record that Linder never killed anyone, nor was he ever convicted of anything but disorderly conduct. He struggled with a police officer at a protest.

A favorite crudely-lettered sign: “Civil Rights is Jewish Tyranny in Blackface.” He held it up, wearing a tweed jacket and scholarly glasses.

Some energy forms, like the fire in a fireplace, can be contained. Linder, by contrast, was like some kind of molten liquid that would burn through the jar into which it was poured, through the table, and through the floor below.

Two views: an obsessed mind whose asynchronous endorsements of racial violence, open hostility to Christianity and inability to coordinate with even the staunchest of white activists doomed him to unmentionable status.

Or: a sharp mind whose understanding of the Jewish threat was communicated in blunt language, and who understood how humor can help to get a point across.

His entire life was dedicated to sounding this one alarm.

In the course of one e-mail conversation, he acknowledged: “I know this is rough stuff. But keep your eyes open, follow current events, and see if I’m not right.”

Linder thought it was funny that whites were scared to even think certain thoughts or speak certain words, while our racial opponents not only didn’t fear thinking or writing about acting against us. They actually did it.

His constant bashing of Christianity added to Linder’s prickle. He was gleefully doing this until his death, the Twitter record shows. But that was all just pure Linder: crashing the party to choquer les foules, and watching the terrified looks on everyone’s faces.

He once mused on what kind of men would lead us out of our mess. He predicted that it would not be a southern man. Rather, it would be someone brash from the New York area or maybe the Midwest.

When Trump won the first time, this thought crossed my mind.

Parallels between Linder and Trump are difficult to ignore. Both men cause even their strongest supporters to cringe on occasion. Recklessness comes standard. Actually taking action and getting things done is a virtue.

They even shared a penchant for nicknames. “Appeaser Annie,” Linder would call Ann Coulter, among other nicknames that sound Trumpian.

Linder’s ideal was the German man. He dismissed “WASPs and Irishmen” as tipsy backslapping dealmakers and bribe-takers too cowardly to simply pick up the sword and start swinging.

He predicted the “manosphere” observation that women are generally unfit for politics, noting “women’s socio-biological function and concern is birthing and binding families, and in that regard harmoniousness is the very definition of success. But politics is about big groups of people dividing and fighting” (“On Women and Their Proper Relation to White Nationalism,” loaded 7/10/2003, VNN.) [1] A list of Linder’s writings may be found at: https://www.alexlinder.com/writings.html.

In “For Conservatives Ignorant of the Jewish Question”, Linder wrote the subhead: They aren’t liberals, they aren’t conservatives, they’re Jews. Miss that and you miss everything.”

There is, by my observation of platforms like X, an increasing understanding of this.

In reading about all the Jewish figures to emerge from the Jeffrey Epstein e-mails, I had to laugh. There’s Lawrence Summers right alongside Noam Chomsky right alongside Ehud Barak. There’s no “conservative” or “liberal” there. They’re all just Jews, the end. They network for wealth, prestige and powe

r, regardless of whether they’re calling themselves liberal, conservative or radical.

Miss that and you miss everything.

I just got done watching a New York Times podcast interview between Ross Douthat, their house conservative, and Yoram Hazony, the Israeli leader of the “National Conservative” movement. Over the course of an hour, Hazony was asked about the rise of “antisemitism” on the American right and the “threat” posed by figures like Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson. Hazony never engaged with the substance of anything Fuentes or Carlson ever said. He told Douthat that true nationalism has nothing to do with race.

“Semitically correct”, Linder would have snorted. “Nationalism made safe for Jews.”

His business card read, “Cultural Chemotherapy. P.C. is a Disease. Get Cured”.

In many ways, Linder tracked the mindset of an old-school, cigar-chomping newspaper editor:

If you’re going to write, say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t waste our time.

Don’t lard it up with useless corporate-speak. Don’t spin out pointless and boring

articles that serve no purpose. Get right to the point.

Have a little fun while you’re at it. “With a high, hard Viking laugh”, he’d say.

He protested on VNN that while “scary and dangerous racist” was his label, he actually spoke for the good guys. “We’re the ones protecting a little white girl

in a pinafore dress playing happily on the sidewalk. The Jews are the bad guys, not us.” Or something like that.

Linder observed that “Jews dictate to us. We should be dictating to them.”

Sounds like a healthy mindset for a white man to me.

Today, when I read a New York Times piece by “Binyamin Appelbaum” promoting Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, I’m reminded of Linder. When I read about Bari Weiss posing as a “dangerous thinker”, I think of Linder. When I see a headline reading “Israel is at War With Itself,” I think of Linder. Another New York Times headline for him: “Adam Sandler is the Light We Need. Yes, Adam Sandler.” Author: one Joanna Novak.

Cue Linder, over and over.

Linder was especially amused by the spectacle of the tough-guy conservative writer who turned into a stammering coward on the topic of Jews. Tough everywhere except where it most counts, he would write.

I know of no white advocacy writer who dropped as many memorable one-liners.

“Racism is just conservatism with descended testicles.”

“Nothing was ever improved by adding Mexicans to it.”

“There’s nothing wrong with Indians. They just belong in India.”

“Jew set up, Jew knock down.”

For all the missteps, I do believe Linder was motivated by an acute sense of justice. It drove him crazy that Jews could get away with the injustices they did and never get called out for it, and instead be hailed as the world’s ultimate victims. And on top of that, paint anyone who so much as hinted at this as the worst imaginable evil in our society.

He resented the fact that white suffering was denied and ignored.

Linder had quirks. For some reason, he was a big fan of the Black football coach Tony Dungy. He once he tossed out a word of admiration for Jewish men by declaring that when actual threats begin to mount and surround them, Jewish males will get together and “act like men.” Yes, Linder said that.

The implication was that white men do not currently “act like men.”

I didn’t know anything about Linder’s personal life. I’m sure your average SPLC investigator could tell you more than I could. I just didn’t find myself interested in gossipy items.

I didn’t know much about his health struggles, either. Just that Crohn’s disease was mentioned, and later, that he’d died of cancer.

But for whatever else you can say about Linder, his sheer brashness made a mark on white advocacy.

As we parted that night so many years ago, I expressed concerns about his future prospects and personal safety.

Outside the pizza place, he turned back toward me and swung open his trenchcoat. “If they want me, here I am. Come and get me.”

He then disappeared into the cold Missouri night.

Christopher Donovan has contributed many pieces to The Occidental Observer and The Occidental Quarterly.