The Hanania Show

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...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com People love my conversations with Amy Wax. Fresh off the news that Penn has sanctioned her for making very politically incorrect but mostly true statements, she’s back on the podcast to talk about the whole experience. See here for our first discussion , which focused on immigration, and the second in the midst of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Substack now allows collaborative livestreaming. Rob Henderson and I gave it a try last night. Still got some kinks to work out, but it went well. Give me any feedback you have. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like you can see what people were typing in the chat. Perhaps that option will be added in later. One thing...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com When Richard Spencer (follow on X , Substack ) asked me to appear on his podcast, I was a bit hesitant. Ever since our past relationship became public, I’ve wanted to forget my earlier writing career ever happened. Talking to Spencer again would just remind me and everyone else of a time in my life I’d rather igno...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Last month, I had a meeting with Dennis McCarthy ( newsletter here ), who is one of my readers. He encouraged me to read the two books he had written. At first, I thought it was highly unlikely that I would simply based on probabilistic reasoning, since I get way too many reading suggestions to take them all up. B...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Today on the podcast, I am joined by Scott Greer. You can find him on X , Substack , and YouTube . Scott and I have a bit of shared history. We both wrote for very politically incorrect websites around the same time. He was outed back in 2018, which led to him losing his job at the Daily Caller . As Scott points o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Bryan Caplan joins me to talk about his new graphic novel Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation . We basically agree here that NIMBYism is a straightforward case of bad government policy standing in the way of markets being able to provide goods and services people want. Bryan makes the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I share some thoughts on JD Vance being selected as Trump’s running mate. One thing we can say is that, for better or worse, this is the most exciting pick he could have made. People with unorthodox ideas and without the approval of mainstream institutions have more of an opportunity to have a cultural and policy...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I was going to call this “From Mosul to McKinsey,” but Rana Mallah ( X , Substack ) suggested this title instead. I replied that no wonder she works in consulting, since that’s pretty good! Rana and I met at Manifest a few weeks ago and I was deeply impressed with her story. She was born in 1997 in Iraq, which was...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Today I have the pleasure of talking to Daniel Hess, a father of six who goes by the name “More Births” on X . Pronatalism in the US as far as I can tell remains mostly an online movement, largely promoted through Elon Musk tweets and the work of the Collinses. To people who spend a lot of time online, this can ma...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Brianna Wu is not someone I would have necessarily wanted to talk to 10 years ago. Not that I would have refused to be in the same room with her or anything, but I would have been skeptical that she had much interesting to say, and so hostile to her identity as a trans woman that I would have barely been able to g...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Note: Reminder that I’ll be live streaming on X tonight , and every Thursday from now on starting at 9PM ET. I’ll go over some news of the day and also answer your questions. Submit anything you would like to ask here. I’ve previously had Walt Bismarck on the podcast, which served as a kind of announcement of his...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Matthew Adelstein is a sophomore studying philosophy at the University of Michigan. You might know him from the Bentham’s Bulldog Substack. I originally invited him on to talk about my recent article taking a maximalist pro-choice position, and his response , along with my responses to his response. We meant this...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Ziho Park is a professor of economics at Taiwan National University. He grew up in Korea and received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. Ziho joins me to talk about the strange world of Korean feminism, and the backlash to it. The last time this came to my attention was when Korean feminists rece...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I cover two topics this week. First of all, there is Mike Johnson finally deciding to bring to the House floor bills on providing aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. As things stand, the texts of the bills have been released, and votes are expected to happen as early as Saturday. I’m fascinated by the role Trump h...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I first discovered Farha Khalidi, who has 1.8 million followers on TikTok, through seeing clips of her shutting down red pill and manosphere type influencers on something called the @whatever podcast , which a friend described to me as material from the lowest level of content hell. I was impressed, as before this...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com My friend Brian Chau joins the podcast to talk about how life in DC is going. A few weeks ago we chatted on the CSPI podcast , and this can be seen as a followup to that discussion. Our last conversation focused on the specifics of AI doomerism and why he’s not worried about the technology killing us all. This tim...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Walt Bismarck ( follow on X ) became internet famous in 2015 for his Disney parody videos in support of Alt Right ideas and causes. Recently, he remerged on a new Substack called Alt Right 2.0 , where he writes about how his political views have changed and the kind of movement he’d like to help build in the futur...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Yes, we’re going to keep milking this thing for what it’s worth. To follow up on my article on Sydney Sweeney’s breasts and their implications for the culture war, here I do some gender theory. The more I think about it, the more I realize that her not apologizing for coming from a family of MAGAs is probably a bi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com TracingWoodgrains is someone I’ve gotten to know over X and through his Substack. He’s currently a law student and works as a producer for the hilarious Blocked and Reported podcast, which I recommend everyone subscribe to. I’ve found “Trace,” as everyone calls him, to be one of the most interesting new thinkers t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com For a while I’ve been investing in cryptocurrency, without knowing much about what the blockchain is or its underlying mechanics. A week or two ago, I took Roko Mijic’s advice to buy some Dogecoin, and have been rewarded with a 35% return already. After that happened, I thought it was about time I sought out someo...