The Hanania Show

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I did a livestream yesterday after a viral tweet on the Zelensky press conference from hell. I discuss what I saw, scroll Twitter for reactions, and take some questions from the audience. The first hour and a half or so was good, but it dragged out a bit at the end. Yet it’s all here for the superfans.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I did my first weekly show with Michael Tracey today. Michael begins by discussing his experience at CPAC and his time at a DOGE appreciation party, where I was apparently a topic of contention. The bulk of our conversation is then spent talking about the deal for the US to supposedly take a cut of Ukraine’s resou...

I am honored to have New York Times columnist Ross Douthat on the podcast to talk about his new book Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious . I’ve always seen atheism as my first intellectual position. Upon learning that many Christian doctrines declare that non-believers go to hell and are tortured for all eternity, I decided I needed to look into whether their claims were true and came to the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Just did a livestream with the beautiful gorgeous amazing brilliant stunning Claire Lehmann, editor of Quillette . You can follow them on Substack here , and also follow Claire directly to keep up with what she is doing. Follow her on X too while you’re at it. We discuss conservatives’ love affair with Andrew Tate...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I just had a discussion with Razib Khan about some of the exciting recent developments in paleogenetics. In 2018, I read David Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here and was absolutely captivated by the idea that we could learn about cultures, population movements, and other aspects of our past through the analysi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Just did a livestream on the importance of “race posting” in right-wing culture. Things have gone well beyond being anti-woke. Young right-wingers have created a horrifying inverse of woke culture where race and attitudes towards racial issues, along with attitudes towards those who dislike racism, become the cent...

I did a livestream today with Noah Smith, someone whose writing I have admired for a long time and who I was happy to finally get to meet. We start out by talking about what’s going on with the Trump administration, and all the recent craziness, including the president’s supposed plan for the US to take over Gaza. This blends into discussions about China and Russia, and their memetic relationships...

The stock market was sent reeling today as a result of the release by the Chinese company DeepSeek of an open source AI model that comes close to or matches the performance of American models, but was created for a fraction of the cost. While traditional models have cost in the range of $100 million to $1 billion to produce, the latest application from DeepSeek was reportedly created for under $6...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I just did a livestream with Bryan Caplan on Trump’s executive orders on DEI and my role in making them happen. For context, see my post from yesterday. We discuss the history of EO 11246 and Bryan talks about the pressure his dad got from the government to hire more minorities in the airline industry in the 1980s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I just did a stream on the inauguration and Trump’s potential executive orders, some of which might be signed by the time you watch this. I did this stream with screensharing, so you can follow along as I scroll X, the New York Times and the Washington Post , and read about the Biden pardons, what Trump is expecte...

Alex Epstein ( X , Substack ) is a philosopher, energy expert, and the author of two New York Times bestselling books: Fossil Future and The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels . Alex and I met a few years ago through our mutual friend Bryan Caplan. A couple of months ago we were talking and he asked me how much Ayn Rand I had read. I mentioned that I’d gone through Atlas Shrugged when I was in my teens o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com A war has broken out on X between Tech Right types and populists over the question of Indian immigration. For context, see this article , or basically scroll through my entire X feed. I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day posting about this, as this topic is where many of my interests overlap. I’m particularly f...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Tom Khaled Würdemann ( follow on X ) is a PhD student at Heidelberg University. He also works as a lecturer at the Police College of the State of Hassia, Germany. He joins the podcast to talk mainly about the history of Syria and recent events in that country. I am particularly fascinated by the question of why a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey joined me tonight to discuss the fall of the Syrian regime. We speculate about the future of Syria, and express surprise regarding how little Assad did to rally his troops and try to inspire them to fight on. See here for the WSJ piece we refer to.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Bryan joined me on a livestream recently to talk about his new book Self-Help is Like a Vaccine . We discuss topics like parenting, how to live a stress free life, when to stick to one’s principles and when to compromise, and more. We end by taking a few questions from the audience. See Bryan on Milei and populism...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Stephen Goldstein ( follow on X ) is a postdoc in Evolutionary Virology at the University of Utah Medical School, where he specializes in coronaviruses. He joins me to discuss vaccines and whether you should get them. Short answer: yes. I’ve been delving a bit into the claims of anti-vaxxers, and every time you lo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Tonight I had a livestream with Mike Tracey on the Hunter Biden pardon, Trump expressing an intent to name Kash Patel as FBI Director, the latest in Syria, and what Trump might do in Ukraine. I explain to Michael why Trump appointing both of his daughters’ fathers-in-law to positions might make sense, as in my vie...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com My friend Tracing Woodgrains joined me on the live stream today. Earlier this month, he and I published articles in Quillette one day apart on a similar theme, which is the need for a sane centrism beyond woke leftism and the Trump cult. We try to distinguish between a kind of libertarian-statist axis and one that...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Michael Tracey joins me on a livestream today to discuss Matt Gaetz withdrawing his nomination to be Attorney General. We also talk about where MAGA is going, the increasing meaninglessness of the term “neocon”, escalation in Ukraine, and more. Here’s the video Michael sent me showing the missile attack in Dnipro...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I had an hour in my car today and decided to do a livestream where I talked about the Trump appointments so far. We had a few normal days and then it sort of went off the rails. The RFK and Gabbard appointments are particularly shocking, as is Gaetz in a different way. I thought that the Gribbles would be tossed a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Polymarket gives Trump a 97% chance of Trump winning as I write this. Republicans are taking the Senate, and by a relatively substantial margin. Michael Tracey and I talk about what happened. We get into the Hispanic vote, what a second Trump administration will look like, Trump’s unique magic, how Michael could t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Just finished a three-hour election day live stream, which started at 1PM ET. Hour 1: Maxim Lott discusses betting markets and where we’re putting our money. Hour 2: Alex Nowrasteh on immigration, and what the vibe is like in DC Hour 3: Rob Henderson, to discuss basic election stuff, the vibes, and we go on some t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I talked to Michael Tracey last night about the upcoming election, JD Vance on Rogan, Trump’s stolen election claims, Michael’s recent Liz Cheney piece , and other things. Join me for my next live video in the Substack app. Today I’ll be talking with Alex Nowrasteh on Election Day at 5ET/2PT. See you there.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Today I talk with Callum Williams ( follow on X ), senior economics editor for The Economist . I was honored to have Callum on, as I consider The Economist perhaps the most indispensable news source we have. Their latest issue , on the US economy as the envy of the world , forms the basis of our discussion. After...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Andrei Lankov is a Russian-born scholar of Korea, the director of the Korea Risk Group, and a professor at Kookmin University in Seoul. I had been familiar with his work for years, but only recently read his 2013 book The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in a Failed Stalinist Utopia after coming across this rev...