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Richard Hanania

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14:37

Armenia: Despair, Hope, and Rebirth

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2023/12/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comThis week, I talk to Alec Mouhibian, also known as “The Filthy Armenian” (follow on X), a writer, podcaster, and film maker.We originally met when he interviewed me for his own podcast a few months ago. At the time, I enjoyed talking to Alec, as it was a different kind of interview from what I was used to, focusing more on my personal background than most shows I have done. In this conversation, he starts out by

14:46

Fiddling with Nature: Surrogacy and the Future of...

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2023/12/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comInez joins me to talk about my recent article on surrogacy. She acts as sort of my explainer of social conservatives, whose beliefs I often find odd. Inez gives me a secular defense of the idea that we should be skeptical of reproductive technology. We go back and forth, and it ends up sounding to me that we at heart have differences that are more empirical in nature than reflective of differing values. For those

12:32

DeSantis Finally Shows Up, and the Future of...

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2023/12/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comLast night was the fourth Republican debate, and only the second I’ve watched in full. I’m glad I did, as it was pretty fun. The process has winnowed out the other candidates who weren’t going anywhere, and we’ve ended up with the alternative to Trump (DeSantis), the crazy outsider (Vivek), the establishment politician (Haley), and the establishment politician who hates Trump (Christie). Inez thinks that DeSantis won

14:00

Did Zionism Come Too Late?

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2023/12/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comAfter a two week break of talking about other things, we’re back to Israel-Palestine. I’ve been wondering why I, like so many others, care so much about this issue, given that there are fewer people in Israel and the Palestinian Territories than there are in Florida, and the conflict is not going to lead to nuclear war like say the dispute over Taiwan might. Clearly, the war symbolizes something very important. For

16:21

The Inferiority of Men

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2023/11/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comDue to Thanksgiving, Inez is taking the week off. Instead of our normal programming, I decided to do something different, and interview one of the most interesting and provocative voices I know from X. I am usually not a big fan of anonymous accounts. Friends often recommend them to me, and I find that what impresses them is people who think exactly like they do but feel free to express themselves in cruder forms.

13:57

The Rise of Nikki Haley

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2023/11/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comWe’ve done shows on Gaza in each of the last several weeks, so despite recent developments in that conflict we’ve decided to give everyone a break today and focus on domestic topics. Also, I’ve heard your complaints, so I tried a new microphone this week. People can let me know how it sounds. We start by talking about Republicans having another bad election night last week. Inez and I discuss how much it’s about

11:27

BONUS: Friend-Enemy Distinction?

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2023/11/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comMy friend Jeremy Carl (follow on X, see here for articles) of the Claremont Institute joins me to discuss the book Romney: A Reckoning, which I recently reviewed. He is also a former Trump official, which means he has experience in the practice of governing. Jeremy takes a view of Romney that is more representative than mine of where the conservative mo…

11:18

The Morality of Conquest

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2023/11/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comInez and Philippe are back to talk about the conflict in Gaza (see also last week). This time, rather than focus on the practicalities of what Israel is trying to accomplish, we dig into the morality of the war.Topics include international law, the principle of proportionality, what stake the rest of humanity does or doesn’t have in this conflict, and t…

13:06

Negotiate with Hamas?

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2023/11/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comFor the first time, we had a guest on this week. Inez and I pretty much agree on the Gaza conflict, so we brought on Philippe Lemoine to talk about his own position, which he has written about at his Substack. He believes in a more restrained Israeli approach, hopefully at some point leading to a two-state solution.I think we all agree that there are only a series of bad options going forward. Philippe’s moral

12:42

The Trump-Bush (Tushist? Brumpist?) Synthesis

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2023/10/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comI’m taking a bit of a break off Twitter. A “break” for me means still tweeting maybe 10x a day, but also not scrolling during work hours, being only briefly on the site at night, and never checking the replies or mentions. This has reduced my time on the website by at least 90%, which has made me more productive. Inez and I talk again about our respective relationships with the site. Hers seems much more normal

14:25

"Do Better, Jews"

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2023/10/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comInez and I start off by discussing the latest in the Israel conflict, covering topics from my two recent essays on the war, a Washington Post article showing the damage that the bombing campaign has inflicted so far, and Edward Luttwak’s recent piece on what a ground invasion would look like. We then go on to talk about the domestic political impact of what is happening in the Middle East. We have a debate on whether

14:59

Cancel Culture Comes for the Left

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2023/10/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comOne day later than usual, Inez joins me to talk about the war in Israel and its political fallout so far. We are mostly in agreement on Israel being in the right in how it is defending itself, as it looks like they are undertaking a plan of action consistent with what I recommended the other day. Closer to home, it appears that cancel culture is coming for the left, as individuals lose their jobs for being too

11:16

Death and Comedy in Urban America

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2023/10/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comWe begin by talking about the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Inez says she doesn’t think it matters and explains why. We get into the question of what Republican priorities should be, and what’s realistic to accomplish with a slim majority in one house of Congress.Also this week, not one, but two left-wing activists were murdered in major American cities. Ryan Carson was stabbed in NYC by a psycho

12:13

Finally! Our January 6 Fight

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2023/09/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comThings start out peaceful enough, as I tell Inez about my appearance the other day on the Dennis Prager Show (go to September 27, 1 hour and 10 minutes in here to watch). We got along very well. I reflect on some amazing clips I just saw of Prager, a few hours after we spoke, explaining to young people at ASU that masturbation is not evil, which of all the weird religious views out there is one of those I find most

12:44

The Fall of Kendi and the Return of #MeToo

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2023/09/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comI begin this week by bellyaching to Inez about all the other shows I’ve been doing. It’s a good problem to have, as it means there’s interest in my book. That being said, I’ve done 8 in the last 5 days on the same topic, in addition to others last week, and more to come next week. I hope to do many more! But for now I’m glad to be able to talk about something else, and therefore was really looking forward to this

11:15

FIRE/Free Press Debate, the Sexual Revolution, Fame...

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2023/09/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comThis week, Inez and I talk about my impression of the FIRE/Free Press debate I attended last night on whether the sexual revolution has failed. I don’t know how much we disagree. We both believe that telling women to live like they’re characters in Sex and the City has been a mistake. I’m just an extreme skeptic with regards to questioning people’s choices, at least in their personal lives. Inez asks whether there’s

12:33

Obama's Alleged Homosexuality, the Promise and Perils...

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2023/09/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comInez and I begin with the question that is on everyone’s mind this week: Is Obama gay? When he said that he made love with men in his mind, was he speaking metaphorically or literally, or at least “literally” in the sense that gay things were literally happening in his imagination, if not real life? This topic is in the news because of Tucker’s interview

13:43

Clown Car: 8/31/23

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2023/08/31

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comInez joins me this week to talk about Mitch McConnell freezing up again, and what it says about old people dominating society more generally. This leads to a discussion on whether we rely too much on medical technology and the extent to which we should accept limits on human nature. We both agree gerontocracy is a problem, but while Inez thinks that the…

13:06

Clown Car: 8/24/23

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2023/08/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comInez and I talk about the debate last night. I present my theory of what DeSantis is doing, and why I think he’s just trying to be the guy standing there at the end, hoping that Trump collapses. Which is unlikely, but what else is he going to do? We talk about the idea that Vivek is too polished, Inez’s hatred of Nikki Haley and why she bothers me less,…

61:47

Clown Car: 8/17/23

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2023/08/18

This week, Inez and I talk about the song taking the world by storm, Rich Men North of Richmond. This sparks a discussion about how much we should be listening to the cries of the masses and seeing them as reflecting upon the elites. Inez wrote a piece on the California Republican Party and how they’ve been “cucking,” as the kids say, and I wonder whether it makes sense for them to do so. We close by debating the value of moving to the center more generally, and in particular the political impacts

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