Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania)

On the "weird" debate. Conservatives have responded to liberal accusations of "weirdness" by pointing to strange looking trans activists, pronouns, etc. I think that this misses the core reason as to why Republicans are seen as weird. It's not about positions on culture war issues. Each side has c...

There’s a kind of disease in right-wing thinking now where social phenomena never have any kind of organic nature. Everything is just a top down conspiracy. This means you never question where you’ve gone wrong or engage in self-critique, you just have to beat the conspirators. ...

White men like this exist. They put on suits and ties, work normal jobs. No pink hair. They have wives and children. No obvious deficiencies, and show all the signs of being conventionally successful. And they attend White Dudes for Harris. Deal with it, online weirdos. ...

When I came up with the concept of Nietzschean Yglesias as my guiding light, I never imagined Scott Alexander would independently end up arriving at the same place. ...

I’m convinced this is the purest form of white supremacy in existence. These white women don’t see minorities as autonomous agents. They’re not feeling subservient when refraining from correcting them. They are reinforcing themselves at the top of the hierarchy, ...

You can never win with young women against you. They at a very deep level intuitively understand the culture and are its driving force, all of the rest of us are just along for the ride. ...

We’ve had eight years of Trump and Biden. I feel good about Kamala’s chances because I think the American people have forgotten what a non-senile politician sounds like, so much so that talk of coconuts and what has been sounds like Cicero reincarnated. ...

I deleted the original tweet because what Trump says here is open to interpretation. I think he’s saying “I’m not Christian.” Others think he’s saying “I’m a Christian.” The case for “not a Christian” 1) in the context of the clip he seems to talk to Christians like they’re an alien community 2) ...

Gerald Ford predicted 2024 back in 1989. ...