Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania)

Did bombing Yemen work? We don't really know how this will play out, but I've always thought people underrate how much bombing and killing people like this can work. ...

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This loser in a debate about the Middle East said he was an award winning author on the region and some other nonsense I don’t remember. I asked him what the name of the book was, he started flipping out and claiming that I tricked him into doxxing himself. The claim about being an Asian woman was s...

Cathy Young: “Yarvin is apparently unaware of the contradiction—and when he tries to explain why his unconstrained autocrat would not become an oppressive tyrant, his answers fall apart under the slightest scrutiny.” ...

Whites create a new business model, Asians copy it and go harder. The Asian version records you while she’s dropping N-bombs. ...

Fascinating social experiment here. Watched the whole thing. You can see the variation in men’s confidence and the differences are absolutely vast. Best performing was black guy in black tank top, the worst was the first guy. Just completely different levels of being able to capitalize on an opportu...

You can be an honest conservative or an honest liberal. What you can't be is an honest populist. Populism should be understood as a way to hack democracy by being more dishonest than elites are used to. Take Social Security and Medicare. Paul Ryan says cut benefits. Bernie Sanders says raise taxe...

Incredible exchange. I’ll admit, seeing how the Trump administration works has made me think these questions are a lot more complicated than I once thought. We need to think carefully about how to deal with anti-democratic impulses among much of the public. ...

Fetterman’s former chief of staff is worried about his mental health. The signs he sees include megalomania (saying he knows the most about Gaza), telling absurd lies, social media addiction, and he doesn’t read anything on policy. This is literally Trump and Elon! It’s amazing how normal behavior ...