The Hanania Show

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com The abortion issue is dragging down the rest of the conservative movement. While many have pointed this out, there hasn’t been much thinking yet about what, if anything, can be done about it. The goal of this podcast is to look back on how the pro-life movement came to dominate American conservatism and investigat...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I discuss the Republican primary in New Hampshire last night, widely considered to have been for most practical purposes the end of the campaign. Last week, I talked about Bullying Grandma Syndrome , which explains why Trump has and continues to dominate the Republican Party. Haley’s relatively strong performance...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com In this podcast, I review Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (2023). The producer made the movie center around the relationship with Josephine. I thought that there was a missed opportunity to show her time in prison, which would have added depth to the character. This is from Andrew Roberts’ biography. From April 22, 1794 u...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com This week I’m doing something new. Rather than having a guest every time, I’m going to begin sometimes doing an audio monologue about issues of the day. You can give me feedback on whether you like the new format. Last night saw Trump’s expected blowout victory in the Iowa caucuses. Since the polls were almost exa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Nathan Cofnas is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He joins the podcast to talk about his latest essay, “Why We Need to Discuss the Right’s Stupidity Problem”, which is framed as a response to Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution and my The Origin...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com This week, I’m joined by Anatoly Karlin. He recently wrote a series of essays on how his political thinking has shifted over the last few years on issues like AI timelines, Russian nationalism, the problem with what he calls the “rightoid international,” and more. See his preface to the series, along with the thre...

This conversation is too good to paywall, so I’m sharing it with the world. My last discussion with Amy Wax, which focused mostly on immigration, went viral (see podcast and video and transcript ), and since she recently reviewed my book for The American Conservative we decided it was the perfect time to talk again. We of course begin by discussing the review, which focuses on the question of how...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com This week, I talk to Alec Mouhibian, also known as “The Filthy Armenian” ( follow on X ), a writer, podcaster, and film maker. We originally met when he interviewed me for his own podcast a few months ago. At the time, I enjoyed talking to Alec, as it was a different kind of interview from what I was used to, focu...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Inez joins me to talk about my recent article on surrogacy. She acts as sort of my explainer of social conservatives, whose beliefs I often find odd. Inez gives me a secular defense of the idea that we should be skeptical of reproductive technology. We go back and forth, and it ends up sounding to me that we at he...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Last night was the fourth Republican debate, and only the second I’ve watched in full. I’m glad I did, as it was pretty fun. The process has winnowed out the other candidates who weren’t going anywhere, and we’ve ended up with the alternative to Trump (DeSantis), the crazy outsider (Vivek), the establishment polit...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com After a two week break of talking about other things, we’re back to Israel-Palestine. I’ve been wondering why I, like so many others, care so much about this issue, given that there are fewer people in Israel and the Palestinian Territories than there are in Florida, and the conflict is not going to lead to nuclea...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Due to Thanksgiving, Inez is taking the week off. Instead of our normal programming, I decided to do something different, and interview one of the most interesting and provocative voices I know from X. I am usually not a big fan of anonymous accounts. Friends often recommend them to me, and I find that what impres...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com We’ve done shows on Gaza in each of the last several weeks, so despite recent developments in that conflict we’ve decided to give everyone a break today and focus on domestic topics. Also, I’ve heard your complaints, so I tried a new microphone this week. People can let me know how it sounds. We start by talking a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com My friend Jeremy Carl ( follow on X , see here for articles) of the Claremont Institute joins me to discuss the book Romney: A Reckoning , which I recently reviewed . He is also a former Trump official, which means he has experience in the practice of governing. Jeremy takes a view of Romney that is more represent...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Inez and Philippe are back to talk about the conflict in Gaza (see also last week ). This time, rather than focus on the practicalities of what Israel is trying to accomplish, we dig into the morality of the war. Topics include international law, the principle of proportionality, what stake the rest of humanity do...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com For the first time, we had a guest on this week. Inez and I pretty much agree on the Gaza conflict, so we brought on Philippe Lemoine to talk about his own position, which he has written about at his Substack. He believes in a more restrained Israeli approach, hopefully at some point leading to a two-state solutio...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I’m taking a bit of a break off Twitter. A “break” for me means still tweeting maybe 10x a day, but also not scrolling during work hours, being only briefly on the site at night, and never checking the replies or mentions. This has reduced my time on the website by at least 90%, which has made me more productive....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Inez and I start off by discussing the latest in the Israel conflict, covering topics from my two recent essays on the war, a Washington Post article showing the damage that the bombing campaign has inflicted so far, and Edward Luttwak’s recent piece on what a ground invasion would look like. We then go on to talk...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com One day later than usual, Inez joins me to talk about the war in Israel and its political fallout so far. We are mostly in agreement on Israel being in the right in how it is defending itself, as it looks like they are undertaking a plan of action consistent with what I recommended the other day. Closer to home, i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com We begin by talking about the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Inez says she doesn’t think it matters and explains why. We get into the question of what Republican priorities should be, and what’s realistic to accomplish with a slim majority in one house of Congress. Also this week, not one, but...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Things start out peaceful enough, as I tell Inez about my appearance the other day on the Dennis Prager Show (go to September 27, 1 hour and 10 minutes in here to watch). We got along very well. I reflect on some amazing clips I just saw of Prager, a few hours after we spoke, explaining to young people at ASU that...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I begin this week by bellyaching to Inez about all the other shows I’ve been doing. It’s a good problem to have, as it means there’s interest in my book. That being said, I’ve done 8 in the last 5 days on the same topic, in addition to others last week, and more to come next week. I hope to do many more! But for n...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com This week, Inez and I talk about my impression of the FIRE/Free Press debate I attended last night on whether the sexual revolution has failed. I don’t know how much we disagree. We both believe that telling women to live like they’re characters in Sex and the City has been a mistake. I’m just an extreme skeptic w...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Inez and I begin with the question that is on everyone’s mind this week: Is Obama gay? When he said that he made love with men in his mind, was he speaking metaphorically or literally, or at least “literally” in the sense that gay things were literally happening in his imagination, if not real life? This topic is...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Inez joins me this week to talk about Mitch McConnell freezing up again, and what it says about old people dominating society more generally. This leads to a discussion on whether we rely too much on medical technology and the extent to which we should accept limits on human nature. We both agree gerontocracy is a...