Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania)

One man’s lonely crusade against a force he can’t stop or even understand. ...

NYT has obtained documents showing that Vietnamese officials are ignoring their laws in order to approve the Trump golf course complex to get political concessions. It kind of gets old to keep saying this stuff but there are still people out there who will think Trump’s corruption can be compared t...

Love learning about Pickett’s Charge. ...

One of the best reasons to be optimistic about the future of America is the social and political views of young women. ...

Uh, props for the honesty I guess. ...

Steven Pinker: “In my 22 years as a Harvard professor, I have not been afraid to bite the hand that feeds me…So I’m hardly an apologist for my employer when I say that the invective now being aimed at Harvard has become unhinged.” Yes. MAGA makes it impossible for smart people to be allies....

Rogan: horoscopes are maybe nonsense, but astrology is based on ancient wisdom lost to science because we now have light pollution. The left should be proud that there is no “liberal Joe Rogan.” ...

Scott Alexander has an unusually smart audience, so I was taken aback by people still going with the stupid “died with covid versus died of covid” line to minimize the number of deaths in his comments. They don’t come out and announce their politics, but I assume these people get too much of their n...

“Oh so there’s going to be more!!” The Feynman Lectures of our generation. 😂 ...