Richard Hanania
@hananiarichard.bsky.social
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The review you've been waiting for: Run Hide Fight: Infidels. The move is so bad, it's fun. Daily Wire conservatism takes conservative distaste for all non-whites and focuses it on Muslims. The movie feels like the last gasp of a dying ideology. www.richardhanania.com/p/a-conserva...
A Conservatism with Only One Enemy
A review of Run Hide Fight: Infidels
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I used to laugh at liberals who said "cruelty is the point." But they've been vindicated by the second Trump admin. The right has become sadistic, cruel, and evil. It's not about policy anymore. I explain why decent people must support Democrats. www.richardhanania.com/p/the-vibes-...
The Vibes of the Right Are Genocidal
There is only one coalition not dominated by sadism and hate
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We keep hearing that people who work on AI are worried. But they might be in an intellectual bubble. One reason to suspect this is that China seems pretty unconcerned with doom, despite not being too far behind. It's something to consider. www.richardhanania.com/p/why-is-chi...
Why Is China Not Freaking Out about AGI?
The West has become unusually pessimistic about science and technology
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If you’re wondering what happened to the GOP, I’m here to explain it to you. The Groypers have won. The people who want to kick out all immigrants are in control, and the only debate is whether to be explicit about the racism or not. www.richardhanania.com/p/groypers-a...
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"For those who think doomers are obviously correct, it is worth considering the fact that there is a civilization of 1.4 billion people that is on the cutting edge of the technological frontier and doesn’t consider misalignment to be an existential issue" www.richardhanania.com/p/why-is-chi...
Why Is China Not Freaking out about AGI?
The West has become unusually pessimistic about science and technology
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It's amusing that, in the AI doomer debate, you have GMU economists and the Chinese Communist Party on the same side against mainstream Western thought. www.richardhanania.com/p/why-is-chi...
America is freaking out about AI. But China isn't. Why? I argue it's a matter of vibes. America has become much more pessimistic about science and technology as a general matter. AI doomerism is another manifestation of this general trend. www.richardhanania.com/p/why-is-chi...
Why Is China Not Freaking out about AGI?
The West has become unusually pessimistic about science and technology
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"This episode has really highlighted the difference between the online right and the meatspace right. The latter generally try to at least make up excuses for why they support racist policies." www.richardhanania.com/p/they-even-...
They Even Hate the Indians Who Like Football
A preview of the fights coming to the post-Trump right
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This one just hits differently. Nothing is more red state normie Middle America coded than college football games. Go to one, and huge elements of the right will still hate you if you have the wrong skin. These people are the enemy and must lose. www.richardhanania.com/p/they-even-...
They Even Hate the Indians Who Like Football
A preview of the fights coming to the post-Trump right
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Do rich and successful men have "power" over women? I argue no. If anything, the power differential goes in the other direction. The Epsteins of the world need protection from ambitious young women. www.richardhanania.com/p/rich-and-s...
Rich and Successful Men Do Not Have "Power" over Women
What MeToo culture, NIMBY, and nuclear safetyism all have in common
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Charlie Kirk spent his life promoting conspiracy theories. Then, when he died, those close to him got upset that the right began to wonder whether there wasn't a conspiracy behind his death. A reminder that movements reap what they sow. www.richardhanania.com/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk Made the Right Conspiratorial and Stupid
Thoughts on 2020 election denial ruining conservatism
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My air conditioning went out this week and it's been miserable. I can't believe there are Europeans out there who will say they don't want it. It's like hearing about a slave happy with his condition. The destruction of the spirit is heartbreaking. www.richardhanania.com/p/gdp-haters...
GDP Haters Aren't Making Serious Arguments
Different measures can measure different things
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You've probably read a lot of AI doomerism. Why not, to keep our minds open, see whether there's a case for optimism? It often happens that the scarier alignment failures look a lot more manageable once you dig into the details, as I explain here. www.richardhanania.com/p/what-if-we...
What if We’re Already “Solving” Alignment?
It’s a process, not an endpoint
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"Before researching this article, I had forgotten what a key figure Kirk was in Stop the Steal... it’s important to say plainly that the moral and intellectual decline of the American Right is a direct result of choices Charlie Kirk made." www.richardhanania.com/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk Made the Right Conspiratorial and Stupid
Thoughts on 2020 election denial ruining conservatism
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The question we should ask AI doomers: what would the world look like if AI alignment was going well? It would look like the world we have now. Problems pop up, and we solve them. The view that one day we wake up and are all dead is unfalsifiable. www.richardhanania.com/p/what-if-we...
What if We’re Already “Solving” Alignment?
It’s a process, not an endpoint
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Been losing a lot of subscribers today over my Charlie Kirk criticism. That's ok. Unlike Kirk, I am not afraid of angering my audience for the sake of truth. We all chose to live our lives in certain ways, and should be judged accordingly. www.richardhanania.com/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk Made the Right Conspiratorial and Stupid
Thoughts on 2020 election denial ruining conservatism
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When I criticized Jason Arday upon his death, no conservatives chided me for being insensitive. Yet we're all supposed to be quiet about the flaws of Charlie Kirk. Like Arday, he was in the public arena, and I believe he did great harm. www.richardhanania.com/p/theyre-the...
They're the Ones Who Told Us to Pay Attention to Jason Arday
Don't let academia forget this story
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I had actually forgotten how key Charlie Kirk was to Stop the Steal. This was a watershed on the right, since it made actively affirming an absurd conspiracy into a litmus test, allowing cultists and authoritarians to take over. www.richardhanania.com/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk Made the Right Conspiratorial and Stupid
Thoughts on 2020 election denial ruining conservatism
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What Charlie Kirk sowed: He pushed the conspiracism that haunts his death. A sober, must-read assessment of the conservative activist’s legacy, a year after his assassination. By @hananiarichard.bsky.social unherd.com/2026/09/what...
What Charlie Kirk sowed
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We're back! Michael Tracey joins me again on the livestream. You know that Gloria Steinem was a crazy feminist. Did you also know she was also a major figure in the Satanic Panic and a proponent of multiple personalities theory? Michael and I discuss. www.richardhanania.com/p/gloria-ste...
Gloria Steinem and the Satanic Panic
When bumpkins and liberal elites team up, things get very stupid
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Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's death. As I write in @UnHerd, few people did as much to make conspiracy theorists feel at home on the right. He was responsible for building the very movement that would make a mockery of his death. unherd.com/2026/09/what...
What Charlie Kirk sowed
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Leftists want immigration without conditions. Rightists want no immigration. The good news is that the largest majority favors immigration with conditions. Keyhole solutions have the potential to be win-win for everyone. www.richardhanania.com/p/are-keyhol...
Are Keyhole Solutions to Immigration Viable?
People actually like it when you impose conditions on new arrivals
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“While the purely economic case against immigration can be cast aside as degrowther nonsense, other restrictionist arguments have more merit. Immigrants do in fact sometimes fail to assimilate, vote for left-wing parties, commit crimes, and use welfare.” www.richardhanania.com/p/are-keyhol...
Are Keyhole Solutions to Immigration Viable?
People actually like it when you impose conditions on new arrivals
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People can have whatever policy views they want. But my litmus test for sanity is "Do you agree that Trump is more dishonest, corrupt, and authoritarian than any other major figure in American politics, and it's not even close?" A lot of people fail it. www.richardhanania.com/p/why-the-me...
Why the Media Is Pro-Trump (yes, you read that right)
A lesson in how civilizations declines
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Why the right's newfound love of authoritarianism is at its root about immigration. They've built such an elaborate fantasy world centered around immigrants being the root of all evil that they convince themselves of the necessity for extreme solutions. www.richardhanania.com/p/are-keyhol...
Immigration is good for the economy. Some have proposed "keyhole solutions" to deal with negative externalities. Restrictionists respond that such solutions are unrealistic. But immigration with conditions is more popular than immigration without conditions. www.richardhanania.com/p/are-keyhol...
Are Keyhole Solutions to Immigration Viable?
People actually like it when you impose conditions on new arrivals
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"If anything, people understand overlapping bell curves too well. Women are able to beat up men on TV much more often than they can in real life." www.richardhanania.com/p/do-people-...
Do People "Not Understand Overlapping Bell Curves"?
The real basis of the race and IQ taboo
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The four principles of Nathan Cofnas thought. People usually attack Cofnas on proposition 1, but 3 are four are where he is weakest, as I explain. www.richardhanania.com/p/esoteric-c...
Why America's fiscal future is bleak 1) We spend more money than we take in each year 2) Without us doing anything, spending on entitlements is skyrocketing 3) These programs are more popular than just about anything else the government does www.richardhanania.com/p/why-social...
Why Socialism Isn't Coming to America
Budget realities defeated DOGE, and will defeat the DSA too
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The Confederacy's VP on its principles "its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery...is his natural and normal condition." Can't believe libs try to tell us the Civil War was about slavery! www.richardhanania.com/p/defending-...
Defending Confederate Monuments Reveals the Moral Emptiness of the Right
Just acknowledge slavery was bad
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