Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania)

Just watch this. It was murder. ...

A lot going on here. ...

The aughts are so back. ...

CNN confronts Nick Shirley. Don’t always love CNN, but man this one YouTuber can’t be what replaces the media. ...

This is excellent. <a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/scrupulouspessimism/p/contrasting-observations-in-korea?r=3rgcb&utm_medium=ios" color="blue">open.substack.com/pub/scrupulous…</a>...

What I learned from listening to Charlie Kirk's (sort of) successor at TPUSA on Ross Douthat's podcast: the organization has no strong beliefs on anything except stopping immigration. It's completely indifferent to every other policy or moral principle. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.richardha...

If you ask Americans if they read a book in the last year, the vast majority say yes. But if you ask them to name a book they read, the number who answer yes is much lower. Social desirability bias at work. No big surprise, MAGAs read less than Harris voters. ...

The billionaires on X give billionaires a bad name. One reason it's so offensive when they're ignorant is they could for a trivial price hire a team of researchers to make sure they get things right. It costs them less to be informed than the rest of us! They just don't care. <a target="_blank" href...

“I would estimate that the gains are so large that, when I’m not preoccupied with a book project or have something else going on, I’m probably producing an extra article a week, going from approximately three to four, for a productivity gain of 33%.” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.richardhanan...