Nicholas Stix

Nicholas Stix is a New York-based freelance journalist who often writes on controversial issues such as race and feminism from a generally right-wing perspective. He founded A Different Drummer magazine (1990-93), which he continues online, and has written for numerous paper and online publications, including Die Suedwest Presse, the New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, Middle American News, Toogood Reports, Insight, Chronicles, the American Enterprise, Campus Reports, VDARE, the Weekly Standard, Front Page Magazine, Ideas on Liberty, National Review Online, the Illinois Leader, Men's News Daily, MichNews, Intellectual Conservative, Enter Stage Right and OpinioNet. His day jobs have included washing pots, building Daimler-Benzes on the assembly-line, tackling shoplifters and serving as an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York.

Stix’s work has elicited responses running the gamut. In Richard P. Phelps’s book, Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing, he praises “free-lance investigative reporter Nicholas Stix” as being among the “small proportion of journalists do make some effort at writing balanced stories on testing.” In Writing Alone and with Others, Prof. Pat Schneider lists among “some of my favorites from other writers” two lines from one of Stix’s poems: “Please do not call to me mother / while I am making pancakes…”

Other writers have judged Stix negatively. In the article, “The Struggle over Language Rights,” published in the anthology Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work, Prof. Keith Gilyard identifies Stix as “a steadfast opponent of language rights for African Americans.” In "Into the Mainstream: Academic Racists' Work Inching Toward Legitimacy," in its Winter 2005 Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center cited Stix as having written on the New Century Foundation’s report, The Color of Crime, about which the SPLC was highly critical.

More nuanced positions were taken by Thomas Jackson in the August 2007 issue of American Renaissance magazine and by Casey Sanchez, in the Fall 2007 Intelligence Report of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Reviewing the National Policy Institute report that Stix edited, The State of White America-2007, Jackson criticized Stix for the latter’s harsh tone in his introduction to the report, while praising him for his exhaustive report on black-on-white school atrocities, and for his chapter on black-on-white crime. While in "The Big Lie: Criminal Cases Exploited to Attack Blacks," Sanchez referred to Stix as a “white nationalist,” he praised him for casting doubt on uncorroborated Internet rumors, and for exposing journalist Michelle Malkin’s spreading of uncorroborated rumors regarding the murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.

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