Links for April: -Rationalists turn on the Fatima "miracle" -Deep dive update on Venezuela -Masculinity camps -The failure of abundance to move the needle on California housing -Ben Sasse's death tour -Review of The Housemaid And more! www.richardhanania.com/p/rationalis...

What does cultural and institutional decline look like? It's Kash Patel getting blackout drunk on the job, having employees drive his girlfriend around, and suing journalists to intimidate them. I wrote about Patel as the poster boy for Kakistocracy. www.richardhanania.com/p/kash-as-th...

My three categories of haters: 1) Culture of life types: “You won’t keep grandma hooked up to machines forever!” 2) Jilted rightoids: “You’re lying.” 3) Yglesias haters: “You represent my gripe that the media is not leftist enough.” I explain each group here. www.richardhanania.com/p/a-typology...

Is Christianity the root of practically all moral aspects of Western Civilization? Are even liberalism and the Enlightenment in some sense "Christian"? I review Tom Holland's Dominion and explain why I don't buy it. www.richardhanania.com/p/jesus-anci...

I put together a typology of my haters. As it turns out, the map of Hanania hate validates my politics. The leftists are petty authoritarians, the right is misinformed and into conspiracy theories. I also discuss the hidden axis that explains it all. www.richardhanania.com/p/a-typology...

The story of the "disappearing scientists" is deeply embarrassing for right-wing media. Fox, Daily Mail, NY Post, all ran with the narrative without checking basic facts. The White House and members of Congress also have taken it seriously. It's shocking how bad this is. unherd.com/2026/04/behi...

Hey @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social, I found a typo in the Iliad translation. A comma where there should be a period. They can correct this in ebooks. Couldn't find any other way to contact you about it.

Some people have good ideas but are bad writers. Should they be excluded from public discourse? In the Boston Globe, I argue they shouldn't. LLMs can make political and social discussions more inclusive. www.richardhanania.com/p/bring-on-t...

I talk to Sarah Isgur about her new book on the Supreme Court out today. We talk about legal philosophy, working in the DOJ, the time Trump took her to tour the Lincoln Bedroom, and more. We also discuss the future of the right. Highly recommended. www.cspicenter.com/p/a-process-...

All writers are going to end up outsourcing work to AI. Expecting them not to do so is like expecting them to get paper copies of journals instead of electronic ones. As I explain, this is a good thing. The arguments against doing so make no sense. www.richardhanania.com/p/all-writer...

Since October, the US has let in 4,499 refugees. Of those, 4,496 were white South Africans. Can someone explain to me what ideology other than white nationalism can explain this? The Groypers have already won. We have a white nationalist government. www.richardhanania.com/p/groypers-a...

Did Dostoevsky cuck himself? My review of part 3 of Demons with Rob Henderson. www.richardhanania.com/p/dostoevsky...

War can be seen as a process of gaining information. In this one, what we learned is that the Iranian regime is more stable and has more resolve than we thought. They've made another war unthinkable for future US presidents. That's a clear victory. www.richardhanania.com/p/what-iran-...

There's been talk about social media making us dumber. And it's true. But AI is a reason for optimism. The rise of "Grok, is this true?" indicates people are outsourcing their thinking to LLMs. I argue in UnHerd that this will make society smarter. unherd.com/2026/04/how-...

2025 likely had the lowest *absolute* number of murders since 1968. Think about how big of a new story the rise in murder was. Nobody cares about an even more remarkable decline. Pessimism has won regardless of what's happening in reality. www.richardhanania.com/p/coups-in-a...

Reflect on the day by reading my review of Crime and Punishment. The lesson: Young men are awful, and Christianity is the most tried and true way of making them less so. www.richardhanania.com/p/good-frida...

RIP Robert Trivers. His theory on self-deception has been fundamental in shaping how I understand politics. I explain why here. www.richardhanania.com/p/why-you-ne...

Links for March -I review Tyler's new book -Review of the new documentary Inside the Manosphere -Commentary on articles on the decline of murder, African coups, Dems being afraid to raise taxes on the upper class but not super wealthy, and more www.richardhanania.com/p/coups-in-a...

I'm fascinated by North Korea, particularly how it has bucked the global trend of liberalization in recent decades. On the CSPI podcast, I talk to expert Peter Ward about Kim giving up on reunification, his young female heir apparent, and more. www.cspicenter.com/p/what-does-...

Tyler Cowen in his new book on why economists write about topics outside their area of expertise: “The dirty little secret is that what distinguishes economics as a field, right now, is a mix of higher standards, harder work, better math, and higher IQs.” This is clearly true.

I've been Dostoevsky-maxxing recently, as the kids say. Check out Part II of my review of Demons with Rob Henderson here. www.richardhanania.com/p/politics-a...

Is James Fishback the future of the GOP? @Nikos Mohammadi went to Florida to find out. We'll be discussing tomorrow on the stream at 1ET/10PT. Click here to get a reminder. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

We used to name generations after they were adults. The Greatest Generation was coined in the 1990s. Today, we give them generic names while they're still being born: Z and Alpha. Please stop. The early naming of generations has been a societal curse. www.richardhanania.com/p/please-sto...

I just read Dostoevsky's Demons, and reviewed part 1 here with Rob Henderson. We agree that if you wrote this today to mock leftists, people would say it's a bit on the nose. In some ways, not much has changed since the late nineteenth century. www.richardhanania.com/p/dostoevsky...

I just read Lauren Southern’s tell all memoir of her time as a right-wing egirl. Going to talk to her about it on stream tomorrow at 2ET. Set a reminder here. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Robert Trivers just died. I discuss his one big idea you have to learn in order to understand politics, and your fellow humans. It’s his theory of self-deception. Once you see it, it’s everywhere and you’ll avoid falling into many common traps. www.richardhanania.com/p/why-you-ne...

Congrats to the cast and directors of One Battle After Another. As we slide toward fascism, it has a message we all need to hear right now. Watch my review here. www.richardhanania.com/p/woke-pre-w...

Lauren Southern was the original egirl. But this one had a conscience, and eventually wrote a memoir about how awful the right is. We'll be discussing it on stream Wednesday at 2ET. Set a reminder here. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Going to be live-streaming with Lauren Southern about her new memoir of her time in right-wing media. You won't want to miss this. Join us Wednesday at 2ET. You can set a reminder here. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

I've argued that the future of the right is bigots and conmen manipulating stupid people. Meet James Fishback. It's like he was created in a lab to test whether my theories were true. The results are in. Gen Z Republicans love him. We're in trouble. www.richardhanania.com/p/is-james-f...

For UnHerd, I reflect on the twenty year anniversary of Idiocracy. In many ways, it was too optimistic. Their stupid people were less cruel, conspiratorial, and resentful, and President Camacho shows more virtue than Trump. unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

I used to think that Christianity won because it was pro-natalist. But this is wrong. It was actually the original incel movement, completely opposed to sex. That makes its triumph more mysterious. I share 12 thoughts on Christianity and sex. www.richardhanania.com/p/was-christ...

I've figured out what ties together all our sexual pathologies: pedo panic, age gay hysteria, MeToo, etc. We're trying to eliminate all power disparities. I call this the lesbianization of heterosexuality. No wonder birth rates have collapsed. www.richardhanania.com/p/stop-tryin...

We thought the lesson of Iraq and Afghanistan was don't do regime change. Trump has been showing that nation building is the problem. Killing bad people is working as American foreign policy. It's good for America and the world. We should do more of it. www.richardhanania.com/p/in-praise-...

Trump's foreign policy is now "kill people and let whatever happens happen." In the Boston Globe, I explain why this is not that crazy of a strategy, and may in fact be working. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/o...

Why is the US so much wealthier than Europe? If there's one statistic that explains it, it's this: Americans are ten times more likely than Germans to be fired in any given year. I argue that the key is differing approaches to labor protections. www.richardhanania.com/p/labor-free...

Just talked to Graeme Wood of The Atlantic on what just happened in Iran, and what comes next. Wood recently profiled a former regime official who said you need to kill about ten people to enact change. That theory is now being tested in real time. www.richardhanania.com/p/whats-next...

Going live on the stream at 6ET/3PT with Graeme Wood of The Atlantic on what's next in Iran. Few people have done better reporting on the situation in that country. You won't want to miss it. Set the reminder and join us here. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

We should overthrow Iran. It's a brutal regime, with an educated and pro-Western population. The rule that "every dictator gets to stay forever" is completely morally unacceptable. But it doesn't mean we should rush in everywhere. Here it makes sense. www.richardhanania.com/p/the-right-...

Links for February 2026: -Review of Lauren Southern's memoir -Assad's final days -The spread of early Christianity -How I defeated (learned to live with) my phone addiction -Sanae Takaichi And a lot more. Plus, review copies of my book available. www.richardhanania.com/p/anglo-deat...

I talk to Zoe Booth about her experiences having relationships with older men when she was a teen. Despite every incentive to do so, she refuses to be a victim. We also talk gooning, age gap relationships, actual pedophilia, and more. Self-recommending. www.richardhanania.com/p/wild-teen-...

I wrote about why Low Human Capital is so obsessed with "pedophilia." People at the bottom feel the need to punch down. But they justify it by pretending pedos run society, so they're actually punching up. The result is resentment-based mass hysteria. www.richardhanania.com/p/why-low-hu...

Watch me read the Supreme Court decision striking down Trump's tariffs. The courts are the last bastion of intellectual conservatism, placing some limits on presidential power. Everything else has been MAGAfied. A good day for democracy and the economy. www.richardhanania.com/p/the-judici...

I wrote about the problem with "white culture." Identities are not neutral, the ones we adopt communicate something about the world. Let's not play dumb. In the American context, we know white identity is held by people who are almost always fascists. www.richardhanania.com/p/the-proble...

Libertarianism believes in individual liberty. Why then are so many who use the label inclined toward authoritarianism, conspiracy thinking, and bigotry? I explain the strange phenomenon of the populist libertarian and what drives such people. www.richardhanania.com/p/thoughts-o...

When people like Jon Stewart and Oren Cass say they have a problem with "economics," their problem is with the fact that it contradicts their political convictions. As I explain, this is a classic case of shooting the messenger. www.richardhanania.com/p/anti-econo...

Biggest blow to wokeness since Sydney Sweeney’s boobs.

One of the strangest aspects of Sinners that critics have missed is the film's obsession with cunnilingus. Watch the entire review with Rob Henderson here: www.richardhanania.com/p/black-masc...

I review Sinners with Rob Henderson. The lesson of the movie's success is people love seeing black masculinity in its natural environment. We even read reviews by Douthat and Sailer and react to them in real time. The Sailer one brings much laughter. www.richardhanania.com/p/black-masc...

How I beat my phone addiction Extremely charming, funny piece by @hananiarichard.bsky.social unherd.com/2026/02/how-...