The Hanania Show

I am not big into the art scene. But when a Dutch girl reached out to me to be part of one of her projects , I saw who she was with, noticed that they were within a twelve-minute drive, and decided that this could be fun. As it turned out, Christiane is part of Keeping It Real Art Critics (KIRAC), which is perhaps best known for its project getting Michel Houellebecq to agree to have sex with two...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I never paid much attention to the Jeffrey Epstein thing. The idea that he was some kind of spy obtaining blackmail material on powerful figures by trafficking young girls to them has for years been pushed by figures like Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, and Eric Weinstein, which convinced me that there wasn’t much...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Today, I’m excited to welcome on the podcast State Senator Scott Wiener. He serves as Assistant Majority Whip and chairs the Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Housing Committee. Senator Wiener joins me to discuss AB 130 and SB 131, the newly passed reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). W...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Murtaza Hussain ( X , Substack ) is a journalist who reports on the Middle East and foreign conflicts more generally. He joins me to discuss Israel, Gaza, his travel to Syria, the future of the Muslim world, and immigration to the West. I disagree with Murtaza on most things related to American and Israeli policy,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Trump just bombed Iran. Here are my initial thoughts. I begin by talking about how “Bombing Iran” has been a meme in the culture over the last two decades. After serving as a nightmare scenario for noninterventionists all these years, it has finally happened. The results are unlikely to be as dire as they’ve alway...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey is back for a discussion of whether we will soon be at war with Iran. Some of you have complained about Michael, but he’s very knowledgeable and the perfect interlocutor for when I haven’t had enough time to follow geopolitical events as closely as I would like. Here, he helps clarify Steve Witkoff’...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com New livestream on the LA Riots, if you can even call them that. I discuss how this is another instance of MAGA desperately trying to create a narrative in which Americans are threatened by foreigners, while reality refuses to cooperate. I go on to talk about how attitudes toward immigration have changed over the l...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I just did a livestream where I talked about Yarvin’s bizarre thread on German WWII POWs, the Korean incel election , Trump’s war on Elite Human Capital , and what I think about the Big Beautiful Bill. Korea might be a warning of where we are all headed. Check out these age and gender gaps. Right now, Korea has so...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Just did a fun livestream with friend of the show Radical Feminist Hitler ( X , Substack ). I looked back at our last podcast and realized that it was all the way back in 2023. I’m glad that so much of my life is documented online because I have no sense of time at all. Sorry about the video quality on my end. I d...

Just did a livestream discussing Trump’s trip to the Middle East, and a new Free Press piece on the influence of Qatar. I go over the differences between campaigns by foreign governments targeting Elite Human Capital and Low Human Capital. Later, I discuss some further thoughts on my article on Yarvin’s case for populism, and whether we can build a decent case for the idea that something like MAGA...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Inspired by Scott Alexander’s piece today on how Moldbug sold out , I discuss my Unified Theory of the Far Right. It explains the transition from Moldbug the Monarchist to Yarvin the Right-Wing Populist, and also why Bronze Age Pervert under all his eccentricities always ends up supporting immigration restrictioni...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Last week I shared a five-minute video on X of a woman hitting on various men around a university campus that has now received nearly four million views. It’s such a beautiful social experiment because you see a series of young men put in the exact same situation and watch their reactions. You can observe the grad...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey wasn’t around today, so I went solo. I start by discussing this video of Pam Bondi claiming that Trump has saved 258 million lives, a day after she put the number at 119 million. We can chalk this up to stupidity, but there’s actually something more complex going on. The nation is now living under a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com This morning I noticed that Christina Buttons of the Manhattan Institute posted about the troubled teen industry, and so I happened to mention I had been sent to a rehabilitation center when I was 15. I always considered it a beneficial experience, but had noticed that Paris Hilton was leading a crusade against su...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey and I discuss the reported peace plan the Trump administration has been selling to Russia and Ukraine. If you take what Putin and Zelensky say publicly at face value, there really isn’t much hope of settling this conflict any time soon. If, on the other hand, they are just putting forward maximalist...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I just did a livestream with Nicholas Decker ( X , Substack ), a PhD student at George Mason University. I met Nick last year at Manifest, and encouraged him to write more, as I thought he had a lot of interesting ideas. I believe I might’ve also told him to not be afraid of being provocative. He apparently took t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael joins me for a spirited conversation about recent events. We start with the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, which I think is the most important thing going on in government right now for its civil liberties and rule of law implications. We discuss the Orwellian nature of the way the administration lies about...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com This is a podcast review of the book The Loudest Voice in the Room by Gabriel Sherman (2014), a biography of Roger Ailes, and the miniseries based on the book, The Loudest Voice (2019). Ailes’ life story brings together many of my main interests. He created Fox News in 1996, and ran the network until 2016, the yea...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey is at a Senate hearing today like a real journalist, so I’m flying solo. My mood is becoming pretty dark, as reflected in my article on how Trump’s plan is to maintain a North Korea of the right. I discuss why things have gotten this bad, and the necessity of acknowledging where people who supported...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael joins me again to talk about last night’s election results and Trump’s coming tariff announcement. Democrats won the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, and over performed in other races. Florida’s First District went from R+32 to R+15 according to the current count, while the Sixth District shifted from R+33...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey joins me to talk about the crazy groupchat story. We discuss why this has caught on, and whether it tells us anything new about the administration and how it operates. See here for the full release . I argue that the reason that this is such a big story is that it’s the kind of awkward situation peo...

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 foreign policy news, including on the Ukraine war and Gaza. Late in the conversation we talk about how the Trump administration has gone beyond being pro-Israel, and is more implementing a policy of fighting anti-Semitism across the board, which has r...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic ( profile , X account ), and the host of the Plain English podcast. He joins me to discuss his new book Abundance , co-authored with Ezra Klein. Derek was actually responsible for the first article I ever published in a mainstream media outlet, which was a response...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Just did a livestream with Michael Tracey. We talk about the latest news in the Ukraine War. The Ukrainians have accepted a 30-day ceasefire proposed by the Trump administration, and the ball is now in Putin’s court, in Rubio’s words . This seems to us like the minerals deal all over again, where Ukraine hawks are...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Just did an AMA. I took questions on whether I would ever have another institutional affiliation again, why Substack is so much higher quality than Twitter, Nick Fuentes’ intelligence, what parts of the Trump agenda might be undone by a future Democratic administration, whether I watch Severance , anime, nationali...