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Raw Egg Nationalist
BornCharles Cornish-Dale
CitizenshipBritish
EducationPhD
Alma materLincoln College, Oxford
Notable worksRaw Egg Trilogy, The Eggs Benedict Option
Website
www.raweggnationalist.com

Charles Cornish-Dale, better known by his online alias Raw Egg Nationalist (REN), is a British far-right influencer. He is the editor of the magazine Man's World, published in print by Passage Press. In 2022 he appeared on Tucker Carlson's documentary The End of Men, increasing his popularity. While a pseudonymous writer, in 2024 his identity was disclosed by the British advocacy group Hope not Hate.

He has written several books promoting his views on nutrition and fitness, including the Raw Egg Nationalism and The Eggs Benedict Option. REN has been noted as an influential voice in the online raw food movement and in right-wing bodybuilding communities. He advocates a raw food diet, as well as white nationalism and ethnonationalism. He has promoted conspiracy theories relating to anti-globalism, particularly relating to the Great Reset initiative and the great replacement.

Biography

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Cornish-Dale got his undergraduate history degree from the University of Exeter, before completing his PhD at the Lincoln College of the University of Oxford in 2018. His PhD thesis, titled Migrations of the Holy: The Devotional Culture of Wimborne Minster, c.1400-1640, is on the religious history of a Dorset parish.[1]

In 2024, his real identity as academic Charles Cornish-Dale was disclosed by the British advocacy group Hope not Hate.[1][2]

Work and views

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Vince Gironda, only wearing underwear, in a black-and-white magazine image
REN's online avatars feature pictures of bodybuilder Vince Gironda.

REN's popularity grew from the online dissident right space beginning in the 2020s.[3] In 2022, he appeared on Tucker Carlson's documentary one-hour special The End of Men on Fox News, as did RFK Jr.[4][5][2] His appearance in the documentary sharply increased his popularity.[2][6] As of January 2025 REN has more than 264,000 X followers.[2] His online avatars utilize photos of American bodybuilder Vince Gironda, with whom he shares belief in raw eggs as a "superfood", hence his pseudonym.[3] In 2022, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) called him "a key thinker" in both Frogtwitter and the online Right Wing Bodybuilder community,[7] while political scientist Josh Vandiver said his work represented "the body politic conceived in virile as well as racial terms".[3] He is an associate of Bronze Age Pervert (BAP); both share concern about xenoestrogens and their potential impact on the male body.[8] Vandiver criticized REN's position on this, arguing REN's actual concern was less about the health of the average man, instead being focused on "superlative male flourishing".[9] On his Twitter he has quoted Mein Kampf,[10] has espoused the great replacement conspiracy,[10][11] and has promoted eugenics.[12]

REN promotes bodybuilding, while also promoting racist conspiracy theories and far-right ethnonationalism.[2][13] The magazine Compact deemed him "one of the brighter stars in a sprawling constellation of rightwing social-media influencers who exalt nature, tradition, and physical fitness".[6] American magazine Vanity Fair noted him as a "masculinist health guru".[4] He is a prominent and influential figure in the online raw food movement.[7][2] He promotes a diet of raw food, including raw milk, raw honey, as well as the consumption of animal fats and olive oil.[7] He has promoted conspiracy theories relating to anti-globalism,[6][2] particularly relating to the Great Reset initiative.[7][14][15] The Great Reset initiative is a green growth initiative by the World Economic Forum, aiming to resolve climate change concerns and issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic; the initiative has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories.[16]

The WEF had in 2016 predicted that in 2030 people would eat far less meat, which Great Reset opponents view as evidence of a conspiracy to control the behavior of the populace. REN alleged this was connected to the rise in meat prices due to inflation in 2021 to 2022, which he said served the purpose of "globalists" to stop people from eating meat.[17] He has compared the proscribed vegetarianism in Plato's Republic as a tool of social control to the Great Reset's supposed goals for food, to create "a food-dependent, and thus more domesticated, population"; he advocates local consumption of produce, regenerative agriculture, and decentralization of agriculture to fight against the Great Reset.[18][7] He praised the success of Trump's 2024 presidential campaign as indicating a surge in "testosterone politics". During RFK Jr.'s nomination for United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, REN indicated his support for the nomination. He has argued that it is "compassionate" to question whether transgender status may be influenced by endocrine disruptors.[2]

Vice President of the United States JD Vance follows him on X. [10]

Man's World

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REN is the editor of the far-right men's magazine Man's World,[9][6][19] which was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic.[20] The magazine was online-only until a physical edition began to be published by Passage Press.[6] The magazine is aimed to appeal to young white men, with its chief concern being "the decline of national manhood in America and Europe under a barrage of nefarious forces", resulting in what it calls a "clown world". Topics covered include political theory and history, as well as diet and fitness advice.[3] Issues include archaic language, appeals to history and references to "golden age" bodybuilders, in a joking tone. They also include both real and fake advertisements, "borderline homoerotic fashion and fitness" photography, and fantasy and historical fiction.[21][19] Nomadic steppe warriors from Central Asia are celebrated within the magazine, declared "the most murderous people of all time" as contrasted with supposedly feminized and sedentary societies, described as the "longhouse".[22] The magazine promotes pseudoscientific health advice.[19] Scott Burnett called Man's World and REN "a paradigm case of how masculinity is being articulated at the heart of rightwing politics", with some content in the magazine being "fascist, sometimes bordering on neo-Nazi", but utilizing "an ironic gauze".[6]

The magazine maligns "degeneracy", as embodied by the idea of the "coomer" (a wojak meme of a man who is addicted to masturbation), with the magazine criticizing masturbation.[23] In Man's World Issue 1, REN included vintage centerfolds of nude women. He apologized for this in the next issue's editorial, saying that he had intended to "evoke a time before the advent of readily available internet pornography", but that even softcore pornography was "the thin end of the wedge [...] for the ubiquitous filth that is doing such harm to the minds and bodies of men, women and children everywhere".[21] The accelerationist novellas Harassment Architecture and its sequel Gothic Violence, authored by Mike Ma, were advertised in the magazine.[7] REN has claimed the publication's circulation to be over 150,000 copies, though this may be an exaggeration.[24]

Books

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Raw Egg Trilogy

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The Raw Egg Trilogy is made up of three self-published books, all published in 2020: Raw Egg Nationalism in Theory and Practice, Three Lives of Golden Age Bodybuilders, and Draw Me a Gironda.[13]

The Eggs Benedict Option

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In 2022, white nationalist publisher[2][6] Antelope Hill Publishing published his book The Eggs Benedict Option,[25][2] about "the globalist plan for food."[2] It for a time ranked highly on Amazon's its Agricultural and Food Policy sales list. Its forward was written by Noor Bin Laden, and the book is named after Rod Dreher 's 2017 book The Benedict Option. The Eggs Benedict Option is mostly about nutrition and agriculture, but also mixes this with white nationalism. It argues for humanity to stop supporting the modern food system, which REN argues is run by the "enemies of human freedom", who "want you to be fat, sick, depressed, and isolated, the better to control you". He argues for more responsible farming practices and criticizes companies like Monsanto, as well as the practices of monoculture and industrial factory farming, calling the latter "an abomination".[25]

Political scientist Josh Vandiver called it a "manifesto-cum-cookbook for surviving modern life."[3] American progressive magazine Mother Jones criticized the The Eggs Benedict Option, saying it had "half-baked and incoherent solutions you’d expect from a right-wing populist—often stumbling into paranoia along the way", and said it read like "Tucker Carlson tried to write The Omnivore's Dilemma".[25] They also said that it "could be mistaken at times for a hippie manifesto", that stitched together "legitimate gripes" about the nutrition ecosystem with "fearmongering about government meat confiscation and calls to white nationalism".[25]

Raw Egg Nationalism Cookbook

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Raw Egg Nationalism was also published by Antelope Hill Publishing in 2022. The book describes its eponymous ideology as "a physical and political ethic built around the massive consumption of raw eggs", what it calls "one of the most perfect natural foods in existence". This is in resistance to "forces [...] that are leading the anti-human political crusade that seeks to crush the human spirit and destroy the nations, all in the name of profit and global political control." It advocates a diet of "slonking" (gulping down whole) 36 raw eggs a day, as allegedly practiced by Vince Gironda.[7][26]

Publications

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As Charles Cornish-Dale

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  • Cornish-Dale, Charles (3 July 2017). "'A Pint of These Maiden Cuthburga Oats': The Cult of St Cuthburga at Thelsford Priory, Warwickshire, October 1538". Midland History. 42 (2): 183–193. doi:10.1080/0047729X.2017.1376374. ISSN 0047-729X.
  • Cornish-Dale, Charles (2018). "Cuthburga and Saint King Henry: Two Royal Cults at Wimborne Minster, Dorset, 1403–1538". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 49 (4): 963–986. doi:10.1086/SCJ4904001. ISSN 0361-0160. JSTOR 27038575.
  • Cornish-Dale, Charles (June 2018). Migrations of the Holy: The Devotional Culture of Wimborne Minster, c.1400-1640 (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.

As Raw Egg Nationalist

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  • Raw Egg Trilogy. Raw Egg Nationalist Presents. Self-published. 2021.
    • Raw Egg Nationalism in Theory and Practice: Cook Good with the Raw Egg Nationalist. Raw Egg Nationalist Presents. Self-published. 2020.
    • Three Lives of Golden Age Bodybuilders. Raw Egg Nationalist Presents. Self-published. 2020.
    • Draw Me a Gironda. Raw Egg Nationalist Presents. Self-published. 2020.
  • The Eggs Benedict Option. Antelope Hill Publishing. 2022. ISBN 978-1-956887-26-6.
  • Raw Egg Nationalism Cookbook. Antelope Hill Publishing. ISBN 978-1-953730-84-8.
  • Anonymously Yours: The Essays, 2020-2024. Self-published. 2024. ISBN 979-8-32-883772-9.
  • Germania: A New Translation and Commentary. Self-published. 2024. ISBN 979-8-34-405114-7.

References

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  1. ^ a b Davis, Gregory (20 June 2024). "Egg-sposed: We Reveal The Identity Of Far Right Bodybuilder 'The Raw Egg Nationalist'". Hope not Hate. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Wittenberg, Ariel (28 January 2025). "'Gay frogs' and atrazine: Why the alt-right likes RFK Jr". E&E News. Washington, D.C. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e Vandiver 2025, p. 223.
  4. ^ a b Pogue, James (21 February 2023). "Inside the New Right's Next Frontier: The American West". Vanity Fair. ISSN 0362-8841. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
  5. ^ Tebaldi & Burnett 2025, p. 25.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Wilson, Jason (14 May 2024). "Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house". The Guardian. London. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Molloy, Joshua; Leidig, Eviane (10 October 2022). "The Emerging Raw Food Movement and the 'Great Reset'". Global Network on Extremism and Technology. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  8. ^ Vandiver 2025, pp. 214, 223.
  9. ^ a b Vandiver 2025, p. 224.
  10. ^ a b c Hall, Richard; Lozano, Isaac (20 July 2024). "JD Vance is following white nationalists on X". The Independent. London. ISSN 1741-9743. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
  11. ^ Valle, Gaby Del (16 October 2024). "JD Vance thinks monarchists have some good ideas". The Verge. New York City. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
  12. ^ Tebaldi & Burnett 2025, p. 36.
  13. ^ a b Tebaldi & Burnett 2025, p. 24.
  14. ^ Zúquete 2024, p. 190.
  15. ^ Burnett 2023, p. 181.
  16. ^ Burnett 2023, p. 181–182.
  17. ^ Zúquete 2024, p. 194.
  18. ^ Zúquete 2024, p. 192.
  19. ^ a b c Tebaldi & Burnett 2025, p. 20.
  20. ^ Burnett 2023, p. 180.
  21. ^ a b Burnett 2023, p. 178.
  22. ^ Burnett 2023, p. 182.
  23. ^ Burnett 2023, pp. 178–179.
  24. ^ Burnett 2023, p. 184.
  25. ^ a b c d Whalen, Eamon (May–June 2023). "Blood, Soil, and Grass-Fed Beef". Mother Jones. San Francisco. ISSN 0362-8841. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
  26. ^ Burnett 2023, pp. 174–175.

Works cited

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  • Burnett, Scott (2023). "Healthy White Nationalists: Far-Right Selbstbilder in a Digital Age". In Brookes, Gavin; Chałupnik, Małgorzata (eds.). Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 161–188. ISBN 978-3-031-38407-3.
  • Tebaldi, Catherine; Burnett, Scott (18 January 2025). "The Science of Desire: Beauty, Masculinity, and Ideology on the Far Right". Journal of Right-Wing Studies. 2 (2). doi:10.5070/RW3.1604.
  • Vandiver, Josh (2025). "Constitutional Conspiracism: Aryans, Alpha Chads, and White Nationalists". In Ritter, Luke (ed.). American Conspiracism: An Interdisciplinary Exploration. New York: Routledge. pp. 212–233. ISBN 978-1-003-45925-5.
  • Zúquete, José Pedro (2024). "Against the Global Prison-Society: The Far Right's Language of the Opposition to the Great Reset". In McAdams, Arthur James; Piccolo, Samuel (eds.). Far-Right Newspeak and the Future of Liberal Democracy. Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 190–204. ISBN 978-1-032-56626-9.
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