You may have heard of this recent bit of right-wing hackery, the book Unfit for Command, which accuses presidential candidate John Kerry of various unpleasantries. Oliver Willis and The Talent Show note something else: the book was published by Regnery Publishing, an organization that bills itself "the leading conservative publisher in America" and has an, ahem, interesting catalog of books on one extreme end of the political spectrum.

The publisher has been recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a promoter of neo-Nazi interests.

Promoting white nationalism is nothing new for Regnery — or his family. His grandfather, William I, signed incorporation papers for the America First Committee, an organization that opposed fighting Nazi Germany in World War II. His father, Henry, created Regnery Publishing, one of the major purveyors of books by right-wing attack dogs like Anne Coulter and G. Gordon Liddy.

Regnery is one of the backers of the Charles Martel Society, a new organization dedicated to advancing the cause of academic racism. He is the publisher of the Occidental Quarterly, and seriously, if you want to see something that will turn your stomach, read their "Statement of Principles".

He is also involved in this bizarre sideline of matchmaking for Aryans.

William Regnery II, an heir to the Regnery publishing fortune who's a prime mover and shaker in white nationalism publishing, is moving into a new line of business: match-making for "heterosexual whites of Christian cultural heritage."

In an appeal to potential investors titled "Population is Destiny," the famously reclusive Regnery wrote this March that the Caucasian dating service would be no ordinary money-making opportunity, but a chance to ensure "the survival of our race," which "depends upon our people marrying, reproducing and parenting."

I'd heard that name of Regnery before. It turns out that the only two books I own from the Discovery Institute, Wells' Icons of Evolution and The Privileged Planet by Gonzalez and Richards, were published by, you guessed it, Regnery. I find it amusing that the Discovery Institute went to an organization associated with right-wing crackpots and neo-Nazi skinheads to get two of their big 'science' titles published.

I also find it ironic that they are now publishing a book, From Darwin to Hitler, Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany, by Richard Weikart, that tries to couple Darwin to Hitler. Their usual pro-Hitler publisher must have balked at that, though: it's published by Palgrave MacMillan.