Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Patrick Deneen's Work Is Unempirical Drivel The intellectual fraud of postliberalism

Patrick Deneen's Work Is Unempirical Drivel

Start Demagoguing Against the Old It's better to adopt political narratives that get closer to the truth

Start Demagoguing Against the Old

Groypers Are Just More Honest MAGAs Why Fuentes has already won

Groypers Are Just More Honest MAGAs

Believe in Markets, Not Men (or Women) Truth-seeking is found in prices and incentives

Believe in Markets, Not Men (or Women)

Groyperization Accelerating The arc of conservatism bends towards Fuentes

Groyperization Accelerating

Fatima and the Sample Size Compensation (SSC) Fallacy Don't trust groups of peasants, even ones that are very large

Fatima and the Sample Size Compensation (SSC) Fallacy

Liberalism, ISIS, and Toaster Nationalism Being poor doesn't give you more meaning

Liberalism, ISIS, and Toaster Nationalism

On the Success of Neoliberalism Freer markets turned out to be the solution to economic stagnation

On the Success of Neoliberalism

Why the Media Is Pro-Trump (yes, you read that right) A lesson in how civilizations declines

Why the Media Is Pro-Trump (yes, you read that right)

The China Shock and Why the Midwest Needs to Decline Good policies will always have losers

The China Shock and Why the Midwest Needs to Decline

The "Feminization" Discourse as Partisan Hackery There is no evidence more masculine movements care more about truth

The "Feminization" Discourse as Partisan Hackery

How AI Made Me 33% More Productive Taking the grunt work out of writing

How AI Made Me 33% More Productive

Humor, the Causes of War, and Everything in Between with Steven Pinker There are few (if any!) people alive whose work I think more highly of than Steven Pinker, or whose books have done more to shape my worldview.

Humor, the Causes of War, and Everything in Between with Steven Pinker

Why It Probably Gets Worse After Trump More populist and ethnonationalist, maybe less conspiratorial

Why It Probably Gets Worse After Trump

Bring Back the Internet Gatekeepers “He killed my ma, he killed my pa… I'll vote for him”

Bring Back the Internet Gatekeepers

Open Borders, the Lessons of UAE, DEI at GMU, and More with Bryan Caplan Bryan Caplan joined me on the livestream today to discuss my recent article, “Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation.” We begin by splitting some hairs about whether the misinformation label misleads us about the ultimate origins of false beliefs, and also the difference between something being emotionally unappealing and intuitively incorrect.

Open Borders, the Lessons of UAE, DEI at GMU, and More with Bryan Caplan

No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare

No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare

Performing Gender, Left and Right Reflections on cultural differences between conservatives and liberals

Performing Gender, Left and Right

Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation Knowledge is a real thing

Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation

Indians Are Hated Because They Are Dark and Can't Play Football How subconscious prejudices warp conservatives' views

Indians Are Hated Because They Are Dark and Can't Play Football

Pascal's Wager as Spiritual Extortion The history of religion as the triumph of the cruel

Pascal's Wager as Spiritual Extortion

Please Find Less Stupid Ways to Defend Trump Mike Solana's bizarre take on the Kimmel controversy

Please Find Less Stupid Ways to Defend Trump

Power is Power Thoughts on the new right-wing cancel culture

Power is Power

How Big Pharma Saved My Skin Bad capitalism is better than good socialism

How Big Pharma Saved My Skin

Beyond the Culture War: Getting Serious about Reducing Crime Red states are not doing any better

Beyond the Culture War: Getting Serious about Reducing Crime

Dumbest form of Capitalism, Dumbest Form of Socialism Why I stand against anti-Indian hate

Dumbest form of Capitalism, Dumbest Form of Socialism

"The Left" Did Not Kill Charlie Kirk Charlie Kirk was shot and killed today while speaking at Utah Valley University.

"The Left" Did Not Kill Charlie Kirk

Independent Thinkers Are Allowed to Appreciate Good Things Eleven Thoughts on Abundance DC

Independent Thinkers Are Allowed to Appreciate Good Things

Abundance Should Not Erase the Traditional Republican Reaganism still has something to teach us

Abundance Should Not Erase the Traditional Republican

Can a Bannon-Groyper Alliance Derail Vance? We're already seeing glimmers of what a post-Trump GOP will look like

Can a Bannon-Groyper Alliance Derail Vance?