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Richard Hanania

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29:20

Why Are Americans So Rich?

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2024/10/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comToday I talk with Callum Williams (follow on X), senior economics editor for The Economist. I was honored to have Callum on, as I consider The Economist perhaps the most indispensable news source we have. Their latest issue, on the US economy as the envy of the world, forms the basis of our discussion. After talking a bit about what it is like working for The Economist and its ideological orientation, we get into the

8:00

The Peasant Theory of Communist Brutality

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2024/10/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comAndrei Lankov is a Russian-born scholar of Korea, the director of the Korea Risk Group, and a professor at Kookmin University in Seoul. I had been familiar with his work for years, but only recently read his 2013 book The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in a Failed Stalinist Utopia after coming across this review. I invited Andrei on the podcast to talk about the book, the history of North Korea, and developments

11:03

The World According to Amy Wax

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2024/10/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comPeople love my conversations with Amy Wax. Fresh off the news that Penn has sanctioned her for making very politically incorrect but mostly true statements, she’s back on the podcast to talk about the whole experience. See here for our first discussion, which focused on immigration, and the second in the midst of the ordeal she was going through with Penn. The university tried to buy her silence to end this whole

5:19

AMA with Rob Henderson, 9/24/24

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2024/09/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comSubstack now allows collaborative livestreaming. Rob Henderson and I gave it a try last night. Still got some kinks to work out, but it went well. Give me any feedback you have.Unfortunately it doesn’t look like you can see what people were typing in the chat. Perhaps that option will be added in later. One thing I like about Substack is you see a constant improvement in the product.

12:26

Staring into the Abyss of MAGA

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2024/09/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comWhen Richard Spencer (follow on X, Substack) asked me to appear on his podcast, I was a bit hesitant. Ever since our past relationship became public, I’ve wanted to forget my earlier writing career ever happened. Talking to Spencer again would just remind me and everyone else of a time in my life I’d rather ignore.That said, I’ve been paying attention to his output, and I must say he’s become one of the sharpest

9:59

The Man Who Solved the Mystery of Shakespeare

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2024/09/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comLast month, I had a meeting with Dennis McCarthy (newsletter here), who is one of my readers. He encouraged me to read the two books he had written. At first, I thought it was highly unlikely that I would simply based on probabilistic reasoning, since I get way too many reading suggestions to take them all up. But as I talked to Dennis, I realized that this situation might be different. His first book, Here Be

7:53

Taking the Greerhead Pledge

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2024/08/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comToday on the podcast, I am joined by Scott Greer. You can find him on X, Substack, and YouTube. Scott and I have a bit of shared history. We both wrote for very politically incorrect websites around the same time. He was outed back in 2018, which led to him losing his job at the Daily Caller. As Scott points out, few of the things he said under a pseudonym would be out of place in mainstream conservatism today

4:34

The Policy Panacea

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2024/08/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comBryan Caplan joins me to talk about his new graphic novel Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation. We basically agree here that NIMBYism is a straightforward case of bad government policy standing in the way of markets being able to provide goods and services people want. Bryan makes the case that housing is one of the most impo…

9:52

The Successor to Trump

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2024/07/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comI share some thoughts on JD Vance being selected as Trump’s running mate. One thing we can say is that, for better or worse, this is the most exciting pick he could have made. People with unorthodox ideas and without the approval of mainstream institutions have more of an opportunity to have a cultural and policy impact than before. This is far from an unalloyed good, but the variance in possible outcomes is much

11:12

The Jews Are Now Sending Chinese Food

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2024/07/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comHannah is a friend of mine and a successful career woman who lives in a major American city. She describes her job as an “influencer,” which I think undersells all that she does. Regardless, Hannah joins the podcast to talk about two things. First, we discuss what’s been going on with Biden. We really are in uncharted territory. I can’t hide my bias here: I bet a lot of money on him being the nominee, and have staked

21:09

From Caliphate to Consulting

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2024/06/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comI was going to call this “From Mosul to McKinsey,” but Rana Mallah (X, Substack) suggested this title instead. I replied that no wonder she works in consulting, since that’s pretty good! Rana and I met at Manifest a few weeks ago and I was deeply impressed with her story. She was born in 1997 in Iraq, which was probably the most…

8:49

More Births, Please

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2024/06/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comToday I have the pleasure of talking to Daniel Hess, a father of six who goes by the name “More Births” on X. Pronatalism in the US as far as I can tell remains mostly an online movement, largely promoted through Elon Musk tweets and the work of the Collinses. To people who spend a lot of time online, this can make it seem more powerful than it actually is in the real world. Nonetheless, nearly all contemporary ideas

10:24

Learning to Appreciate All Women

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2024/05/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comBrianna Wu is not someone I would have necessarily wanted to talk to 10 years ago. Not that I would have refused to be in the same room with her or anything, but I would have been skeptical that she had much interesting to say, and so hostile to her identity as a trans woman that I would have barely been able to get over it. I wouldn’t have even called her “her,” instead standing strong for the principle that there

9:25

Haters, Left and Right

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2024/05/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comNote: Reminder that I’ll be live streaming on X tonight, and every Thursday from now on starting at 9PM ET. I’ll go over some news of the day and also answer your questions. Submit anything you would like to ask here. I’ve previously had Walt Bismarck on the podcast, which served as a kind of announcement of his return to (anonymous) public life. This week he invited me on his own show, and I was happy to oblige. He

12:39

God, Moral Realism, Utilitarianism, and Other Light...

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2024/05/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comMatthew Adelstein is a sophomore studying philosophy at the University of Michigan. You might know him from the Bentham’s Bulldog Substack. I originally invited him on to talk about my recent article taking a maximalist pro-choice position, and his response, along with my responses to his response. We meant this to be a discussion mostly about abortion, but instead we went in all kinds of other directions.Matthew

11:16

The Weird Traditionalism of Korean Feminists

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2024/05/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comZiho Park is a professor of economics at Taiwan National University. He grew up in Korea and received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.Ziho joins me to talk about the strange world of Korean feminism, and the backlash to it. The last time this came to my attention was when Korean feminists recently got a “sex festival” shut down. Ziho also talks about another controversy, where a pop star wore a

8:10

Sydney Sweeney Funds Ukraine

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2024/04/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comI cover two topics this week. First of all, there is Mike Johnson finally deciding to bring to the House floor bills on providing aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. As things stand, the texts of the bills have been released, and votes are expected to happen as early as Saturday.I’m fascinated by the role Trump has played in all this, and argue that it provides insight into what his second term foreign policy will

34:14

The OnlyFans Aristocrats

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2024/04/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comI first discovered Farha Khalidi, who has 1.8 million followers on TikTok, through seeing clips of her shutting down red pill and manosphere type influencers on something called the @whatever podcast, which a friend described to me as material from the lowest level of content hell. I was impressed, as before this the women in these kinds of debates seemed to serve as little more than punching bags. Yet Farha was

13:42

The Man in the Arena

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2024/04/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comMy friend Brian Chau joins the podcast to talk about how life in DC is going. A few weeks ago we chatted on the CSPI podcast, and this can be seen as a followup to that discussion.Our last conversation focused on the specifics of AI doomerism and why he’s not worried about the technology killing us all. This time, we go into detail about how things have been working out for him in DC. We begin by discussing the

11:40

A Mememaker's Journey

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2024/03/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comWalt Bismarck (follow on X) became internet famous in 2015 for his Disney parody videos in support of Alt Right ideas and causes. Recently, he remerged on a new Substack called Alt Right 2.0, where he writes about how his political views have changed and the kind of movement he’d like to help build in the future. I found two essays he wrote, “Why I’m No Longer a White Nationalist” and “How the Alt Right Won,” to be

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