Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania)

Is Elite Human Capital the future of liberalism? All the smugness of wokeness without any of the guilt. Plus you get a technologically and economically advancing society too, as you feel good about uplifting the world's poor. The only cost is the tears of the chuds. ...

The Free Press asks seven legal scholars form across the ideological spectrum whether the Trump administration is acting lawlessly. They all agree. People say the FP has a pro-MAGA bias, so a basic stand for the rule of law is good to see. ...

Amazing how Low Human Capital the Free Press comment section is. Here’s the response to a symposium on Trump acting lawlessly. ...

Venezuela has the moral high ground here. Think about that. What’s grotesque about this is that some of the Venezuelans being held in El Salvador are themselves dissidents against the Maduro regime. If this doesn’t bother you, you’re morally corrupt or not paying attention. ...

Why do I find this so funny? ...

They’re just the same person now. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-catturd-to-silicon-valley-billionaire" color="blue">richardhanania.com/p/the-catturd-…</a> ...

I heard a smart person say we should provide a steelman case for what Trump is doing on tariffs. It completely ignores the reality of how policy is being made. To get the 90-day pause, two of his advisers literally waited until another one left the room in order to get him to change his policies, ...

NYT reports that the Trump admin letter that started the war with Harvard was sent by mistake!!! And then of course they doubled down and the MAGA morons were defending the policy I keep calling this a third world gov but I feel like I should apologize to Mugabe, etc. ...

A Bukele aide put the alcohol in front of Van Hollen and Abrego Garcia in order to stage the photo. Now Pam Bondi is going to use it as evidence that he’s a dangerous alcoholic. ...