Kakistocracy, populism, and elites
Richard Hanania spent a decade as an influential voice on the online right — first pseudonymously in the alt-right, later as what New York magazine called "an intellectual muse of the Silicon Valley right." Then he watched his own ideas take power and, in his words, "was horrified at what I had hel…
Bantering with Steve Hilton, California GOP gubernornatorial candidate
Here are some highlights from my recent interview with Steve Hilton, the California GOP gubernatorial candidate. You can find the full interview, alongside Richard Hanania, here. During my segments, we cover a range of my admittedly niche interests, such as Hilton’s background as David Cameron’s ch…
Crémieux on Fertility Collapse, Ozempic, IQ & Why Pit Bulls Are the Way They Are
Zoe Sankey sits down with Crémieux (the pen name of researcher Jordan Lasker), the formerly anonymous X writer-researcher whose data threads on genetics, demographics and metabolic drugs have drawn a following of more than 260,000 — including some very prominent readers.
It's a wide-ranging conver…
Richard Hanania: Can you trust a populist?
Richard Hanania had a ringside seat for the rise of MAGA, as his Substack essays on anti-woke issues gained traction at the highest level of the new American Right. He had high hopes for Donald Trump’s second term, and coined the term ‘Tech Right’, hoping for an administration that worked productiv…
Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer: noticing the kakistocracy
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning we have a double-feature with Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer. Hanania holds a law degree from the University of Chicago and a PhD in political science from UCLA, and was previously a research fellow at Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Pe…
Does populism end in disaster? | Maiden Mother Matriarch 209
Something called 'populism' is on the rise across much of the world. It's difficult to pin down exactly what the term means, but most of us have a sense that we know it when we see it. Trump in the United States, Farage in Britain, Hanson in Australia – all of these politicians have adopted a parti…
Margaritaville Retirement Communities and Utopian Socialism | Samuel Moyn on Gerontocracy
Samuel Moyn is a professor at Yale Law School. He joins the podcast to talk about his new book Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It. Richard Hanania questions him on the book’s embrace of socialism, and the two debate the empirical evidence rele…
Why Populism Ends in Disaster with Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania is a political scientist and president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. He spent about a decade as one of the most influential voices on the online right — first writing pseudonymously in the alt-right, later as one of the intellectual influences on the Sili…
We Are Ruled by the Worst - The Charlie Kirk Conspiracy and Other Symptoms | Richard Hanania
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Synopsis
Richard Hanania is back. His new book, Kakistocracy, argues that populism ends in rule by the worst people, and he and Noam spend an hour testing that against the news: why populism can win without being popular, whether the Iran war w…
Orny Adams, Teresa Strasser & Author Richard Hanania | News on Danny Masterson & Luis Rubiales
Adam welcomes comedian Orny Adams and Teresa Strasser to the show. They talk about DMV photos, on-air meltdowns, and ex-Spanish soccer president Luis Rubiales. They also talk about Teresa’s new book, Making it Home, and have a chat with Teresa’s father. Next, Teresa reports news stories about Eric …
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