The Hanania Show

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey told me that he was reading JD Vance’s Communion , so I thought I would also check it out and we’d do a podcast on the book. I was actually sick of thinking about JD Vance and wasn’t planning on reading it, but decided to give it a try. I was nudged by our mutual publisher sending me a copy, though...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey joins the livestream to talk about recent events. We start with the end of Orban’s reign in Hungary, discussing that nation’s role in American political discourse. This might be the last time in a while anyone in the US has any reason to care about this small central European country. The bulk of th...

Something very strange just happened. I was doing a livestream on James Fishback, and the man himself joined us midway through. This began as a stream with Nikos Mohammadi ( X , Substack), a student at Columbia University whose work has appeared in UnHerd , The Spectator , and elsewhere. As everyone knows, I’ve been fascinated by the Fishback phenomenon. Nikos wrote one of the articles I cited as...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I’ve always seen Lauren Southern ( X , Substack ) as the original right-wing egirl. While they are a dime a dozen today, and the act has grown pathetically stale, a decade ago it was a fresh thrill to be an online rightoid and see a pretty young girl telling you what you wanted to hear about feminism and Muslim im...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Graeme Wood ( X account ), a staff writer for The Atlantic who has reported extensively on the Middle East, joins me on the livestream to discuss the bombing of Iran and what comes next. This is a busy day for him, so I appreciate Graeme making time and fighting through his cough. Just yesterday, he published a we...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Zoë Booth ( X , Substack ) is the Content Director for Quillette and host of the Quillette Cetera podcast. Amid all the talk about Epstein, she mentioned to me that when she was 15–16, she had sexual relationships with older men, yet did not consider herself to have experienced pedophilia. I wanted to talk about i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I just did a livestream during which I read through the decision in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump . To get the full benefit of this stream, you should watch the video, as I highlight text as I read. I share some thoughts about reading judicial decisions as a general matter, and Supreme Court justices functioni...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey joins me after his brief hiatus offline to talk about the latest in the Epstein saga. As time goes on, we get more and more documentation and insight into who the man was and what he was doing, and believing in any of the conspiracy theories becomes ever more ridiculous. Yet the level of obsession w...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Last week, Jeff Maurer, who publishes the I Might Be Wrong Substack, invited me on his podcast to talk about the recent overthrow of Maduro. Jeff used to write for John Oliver, and his Substack is a unique combination of comedy and serious analysis of current events. So kind of like Oliver’s show, but much less do...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I just did a livestream with Daniel Di Martino ( X ) of the Manhattan Institute. He immigrated to the US from Venezuela ten years ago and has a PhD in economics from Columbia University. I temporarily pulled him away from TV appearances and getting protein drinks to talk about what just happened in his home countr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey joins me on the livestream to discuss the latest Epstein file drop. He reminds me of how I thought this thing couldn’t keep going on forever during the summer, and yet we are still here. I acknowledge Michael’s prescience on this. We go through various reveals making their way on social media and he...

In the last few years, I have started to teach myself monetary policy. While I always had opinions on other related issues like the fundamental causes of growth and labor policy, I had never done a deep dive into topics such as the money supply and how exactly the Fed shapes the economy. Almost a year ago, I heard Scott Sumner discuss these issues on Conversations with Tyler , and it finally motiv...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Just did a livestream discussing my recent article, “JD Vance Is the White Kendi.” I elaborate on the essay a bit, and explain why I think that Vance is overwhelmingly likely to be the Republican nominee in 2028. I also give some advice on how to attack Vance from either the left or right. People are yet to fully...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey joins me to discuss the latest Epstein revelations. Watch me show him how to open the documents that were just released. We begin by talking about my discussion with Tara Palmeri. He has a beef with her, but I found her lovely. You can watch that conversation on the MAGA Civil War here . I wonder ho...

There are few (if any!) people alive whose work I think more highly of than Steven Pinker, or whose books have done more to shape my worldview. As he was in Los Angeles as part of his latest book tour, I took the opportunity to invite him on the show for an in-person interview. I did a podcast with him on Rationality , his last book, and wrote the following at the time: “One of the best parts of b...

Bryan Caplan joined me on the livestream today to discuss my recent article, “Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation.” We begin by splitting some hairs about whether the misinformation label misleads us about the ultimate origins of false beliefs, and also the difference between something being emotionally unappealing and intuitively incorrect. He ends up agreeing with me though on the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey joins me to talk about the Charlie Kirk memorial service. The conversation somehow devolves into us disagreeing strongly on which parts of the Christian Nationalist spectacle on display were strangest. Michael’s inner new atheist comes out, as we play clips from Erika Kirk, RFK, Pete Hegseth, and ot...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I just did a livestream on the latest in the Charlie Kirk investigation, my article yesterday on the killing, and my piece on anti-Indian hate. As soon as I got off, I saw that a Congressman had just tweeted that he will try to permanently ban from social media anyone who “belittles” the Charlie Kirk assassination...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Ghislaine speaks! And as it turns out, there is still nothing to the Epstein conspiracies. Michael Tracey has a nice breakdown of how it went, pointing out that there is no indication she is lying, even when you might expect to see signs of her doing so. He joins me to discuss. I went into this conversation thinki...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey joins me to talk about the latest saga in the moral panic over pedophilia and its intersection with antisemitic conspiracy theories. The most interesting part of the conversation is when we discuss how the concept of “prostitution” has disappeared from the culture. Everything is “trafficking” or mus...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Last month, Tulsi Gabbard in her capacity as the head of DNI released a number of documents pertaining to Russiagate. On the right, an entire mythology has grown around the idea that the Obama administration, Hillary, and Deep State actors fabricated the idea that Russia helped get Trump elected, along with the na...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey joins me on the stream this afternoon to talk about the latest in the Epstein saga and additional things he has learned about the accusers. It seems like every time Michael looks into one of the accusers or one of the journalists who has taken up the Epstein cause, he uncovers new problems. His last...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael is back for yet another Epstein podcast. In this one, we spend a lot of time going over Ross Douthat’s recent interview with Julie K. Brown, who has been the most important journalist covering the Epstein story. Michael shows how she glosses over the credibility problems of the alleged victims who were sup...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Alright, I really thought we were done, but with the revelation that Trump wrote a love letter to Epstein about their shared secret interest, I guess not. As I tell him, I was in the gym and had to go outside and record in my car. For something this funny, one finds a way to post.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I thought we might be done with Epstein, but Trump decided to start calling his supporters morons for ever believing in the conspiracy, which means the scandal is not going away. Michael is therefore back to discuss. See our first conversation here , where we go over the background and basics of everything Epstein...