Richard Hanania

1 week ago | richardhanania.com | Richard Hanania

I’m going to be writing a monthly column for UnHerd going forward. What I’m planning to do with this for the Substack is send out a link to an article every time one comes out, then provide further thoughts here. I’ve always found word limits stifling, but publications always have them, for good reason. The beauty of the Substack though is that I can go on as long as I want. The UnHerd article is a review of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s Original Sin, on the coverup of Biden’s decline.

1 week ago | unherd.com | Richard Hanania

Bidenbiden cover upDemocratsHunter BidenlawfareOriginal sinPoliticsRepublicansUS Joe Biden was born to be a politician. Cass Sunstein, the legal scholar and former Obama administration official, recently recalled nine different experiences with Biden or anecdotes he had heard over the years. Among these was the time in 2022 when he joined a meeting between Biden and Emmanuel Macron at the White House.

1 week ago | richardhanania.com | Richard Hanania

Just did a fun livestream with friend of the show Radical Feminist Hitler (X, Substack). I looked back at our last podcast and realized that it was all the way back in 2023. I’m glad that so much of my life is documented online because I have no sense of time at all. Sorry about the video quality on my end. I don’t know what it is, but the last two livestreams have been really bad, even though I’m using the same internet and nothing has changed. I’ll hopefully figure this out.

2 weeks ago | richardhanania.com | Richard Hanania

Daniel Sz: What do you think of the role of people like Chris Rufo & Alex Epstein in the current environment? I think they are similar in the sense that they are still in MAGA’s good graces but do not have complete right wing brain worms yet. I have the sense that compared to you they seem to be more focused on their specific issues (universities/wokeness & energy respectively) so they are still trying get something out of the MAGA movement & are much friendlier to it.

2 weeks ago | richardhanania.com | Richard Hanania

I’ve noticed that whenever you start joking around with a little kid, there is this moment when they realize that they are entering into a new social reality. One second they are coloring or moving an action figure around. Then you make a face or say something goofy and their expression changes. You can observe the brief second when they are surprised at noticing that although we were just doing one thing, we’ve now moved on to something else. This sometimes happens with adults too.