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Richard Hanania

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11:16

Why the Left Loves Porn and Hates Sex

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2024/03/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comYes, we’re going to keep milking this thing for what it’s worth. To follow up on my article on Sydney Sweeney’s breasts and their implications for the culture war, here I do some gender theory. The more I think about it, the more I realize that her not apologizing for coming from a family of MAGAs is probably a bigger sign of cultural change than her boobs themselves.I begin by talking about the ways in which many of

14:22

Towards a Gay Ex-Mormon Furry Centrism

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2024/03/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comTracingWoodgrains is someone I’ve gotten to know over X and through his Substack. He’s currently a law student and works as a producer for the hilarious Blocked and Reported podcast, which I recommend everyone subscribe to. I’ve found “Trace,” as everyone calls him, to be one of the most interesting new thinkers to emerge over the last several years. He spent six years in the Air Force where he worked as a Chinese

11:37

Understanding the Blockchain

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2024/03/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comFor a while I’ve been investing in cryptocurrency, without knowing much about what the blockchain is or its underlying mechanics. A week or two ago, I took Roko Mijic’s advice to buy some Dogecoin, and have been rewarded with a 35% return already. After that happened, I thought it was about time I sought out someone to explain to me how this all works, so I invited him on the podcast to discuss.Roko is famous for the

12:10

The Tragedy of Womanhood

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2024/02/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comThis week, I begin by discussing two recent articles by and about women: “How Feminism Ends” by Ginevra Davis, and “Female neediness is real, but it’s not a tragedy” by Ruxandra Teslo. These essays have a common theme in that they both emphasize the difficult hand nature has dealt women. Davis focuses on the physical pain they feel, and has a compelling explanation of the trans phenomenon that I hadn’t considered

14:04

The Charisma Vampire

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2024/02/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comAnatoly Karlin joins me for the second time on this podcast. In our previous conversation, he talked about his move away from Russian nationalism. This time, we discuss his new article, “Navalny Died a Barin.” I am fascinated by the idea of Putin as a kind of charisma vampire, who destroys anyone who is interesting and full of life, leaving a regime of gray mindless mediocrities willing to do his bidding. I was

12:13

All Hail the Moscow Supermarket!

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2024/02/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comI go into three different topics this week. First, I discuss my debate with Curtis Yarvin from Friday on the question of democracy versus monarchy. I share some thoughts on the point of debates, impressions of who “won,” and what it was like meeting online rightists in person. The second part of the monologue goes into Tucker’s trip to Moscow, which included his interview with Putin and visits to the metro and a

13:45

Judging the Media with Bryan Caplan

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2024/02/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comBryan Caplan joins me to play a very special game. Building off my “Why the Media Is Honest and Good,” and Bryan’s response, “Mainstream Media Is Worse Than Silence,” we decided to browse some major news sites and analyze the headlines in order to explore our differences. We cover the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal.You can listen to the audio here, but to get the full

12:04

Which Party Protects Animals?

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2024/02/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRon DeSantis recently came out in favor of a bill that would outlaw lab grown meat in Florida. This provides a reason to talk about something I’ve been thinking about for a while, which is the degree to which cruelty to animals is polarized across party lines, and how Democrats are preferable on this issue. Most people don’t think of this as a kind of culture war topic, but there are consistent differences between

14:21

How Evangelicals Turned on Abortion

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2024/02/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comThe abortion issue is dragging down the rest of the conservative movement. While many have pointed this out, there hasn’t been much thinking yet about what, if anything, can be done about it. The goal of this podcast is to look back on how the pro-life movement came to dominate American conservatism and investigate whether that history has any lessons for today.As discussed in Randall Balmer’s Bad Faith: Race and the

13:24

Permanent Democratic Majority?

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2024/01/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comI discuss the Republican primary in New Hampshire last night, widely considered to have been for most practical purposes the end of the campaign. Last week, I talked about Bullying Grandma Syndrome, which explains why Trump has and continues to dominate the Republican Party. Haley’s relatively strong performance with Democrats and Independents last night brings to mind another dynamic, which is how the current

11:46

Review of Napoleon (2023)

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2024/01/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comIn this podcast, I review Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (2023). The producer made the movie center around the relationship with Josephine. I thought that there was a missed opportunity to show her time in prison, which would have added depth to the character. This is from Andrew Roberts’ biography. From April 22, 1794 until shortly after her husband’s execution on July 22 that year, Josephine was herself imprisoned as a

12:08

Bullying Grandma Syndrome

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2024/01/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comThis week I’m doing something new. Rather than having a guest every time, I’m going to begin sometimes doing an audio monologue about issues of the day. You can give me feedback on whether you like the new format.Last night saw Trump’s expected blowout victory in the Iowa caucuses. Since the polls were almost exactly on point, we don’t have to really update anything in our model of the world. Rather, I’m going to

15:01

How Much Truth Can We Take?

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2024/01/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comNathan Cofnas is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He joins the podcast to talk about his latest essay, “Why We Need to Discuss the Right’s Stupidity Problem”, which is framed as a response to Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution and my The Origins of Woke. The topic of how honest society should be about group differences is something I’ve been

25:01

Embracing It/It Identity

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2024/01/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comThis week, I’m joined by Anatoly Karlin. He recently wrote a series of essays on how his political thinking has shifted over the last few years on issues like AI timelines, Russian nationalism, the problem with what he calls the “rightoid international,” and more. See his preface to the series, along with the three articles: “The Soypill Manifesto,” “The Z of History”, and “Why Jail is Programmed for All

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Amy Wax Versus the “Midwit Gynocrats"

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2023/12/28

This conversation is too good to paywall, so I’m sharing it with the world. My last discussion with Amy Wax, which focused mostly on immigration, went viral (see podcast and video and transcript), and since she recently reviewed my book for The American Conservative we decided it was the perfect time to talk again.We of course begin by discussing the review, which focuses on the question of how honest we should be about the sources of racial differences in achievement. At the beginning it looks like

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.

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