Richard Hanania

1 week ago | richardhanania.com | Richard Hanania |Michael Tracey

Michael Tracey is back for a discussion of whether we will soon be at war with Iran. Some of you have complained about Michael, but he’s very knowledgeable and the perfect interlocutor for when I haven’t had enough time to follow geopolitical events as closely as I would like. Here, he helps clarify Steve Witkoff’s role in Trump administration policy. When you understand Witkoff as a pro-Israel partisan, the approach to negotiating with Iran begins to make a lot more sense.

3 weeks ago | richardhanania.com | Richard Hanania

I just did a livestream where I talked about Yarvin’s bizarre thread on German WWII POWs, the Korean incel election, Trump’s war on Elite Human Capital, and what I think about the Big Beautiful Bill. Korea might be a warning of where we are all headed. Check out these age and gender gaps. Right now, Korea has societal traits that we are observing across the developed world but in a more extreme form due to specific characteristics of the population.

3 weeks ago | richardhanania.com | Richard Hanania

There’s a strange shadowboxing quality to the whole abundance debate. While on the surface two liberal factions seem to be at odds over technical economic questions, in reality there’s an undercurrent of a struggle over what exactly the left should be. The abundance crowd isn’t simply arguing for deregulation in housing, and it’s not a coincidence that they are often the same people who think DEI and cancel culture have gone too far, and many of the pro-Palestine protests are counterproductive.

4 weeks ago | richardhanania.com | Richard Hanania

1. This is excellent on the “Lost Cause” narrative emerging surrounding DOGE. No, it’s not that they had good intentions that were thwarted. It’s that most of what they said was lies, their theories and beliefs about government were false, and they made no effort to even seek out the knowledge that would have helped them achieve their goals. This was clear from the very beginning.

1 month 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.