Trump's foreign policy is now "kill people and let whatever happens happen." In the Boston Globe, I explain why this is not that crazy of a strategy, and may in fact be working. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/o...
Why is the US so much wealthier than Europe?
If there's one statistic that explains it, it's this: Americans are ten times more likely than Germans to be fired in any given year.
I argue that the key is differing approaches to labor protections. www.richardhanania.com/p/labor-free...
Just talked to Graeme Wood of The Atlantic on what just happened in Iran, and what comes next. Wood recently profiled a former regime official who said you need to kill about ten people to enact change. That theory is now being tested in real time. www.richardhanania.com/p/whats-next...
Going live on the stream at 6ET/3PT with Graeme Wood of The Atlantic on what's next in Iran. Few people have done better reporting on the situation in that country. You won't want to miss it. Set the reminder and join us here. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
We should overthrow Iran.
It's a brutal regime, with an educated and pro-Western population.
The rule that "every dictator gets to stay forever" is completely morally unacceptable. But it doesn't mean we should rush in everywhere.
Here it makes sense. www.richardhanania.com/p/the-right-...
Links for February 2026:
-Review of Lauren Southern's memoir
-Assad's final days
-The spread of early Christianity
-How I defeated (learned to live with) my phone addiction
-Sanae Takaichi
And a lot more.
Plus, review copies of my book available. www.richardhanania.com/p/anglo-deat...
I talk to Zoe Booth about her experiences having relationships with older men when she was a teen. Despite every incentive to do so, she refuses to be a victim. We also talk gooning, age gap relationships, actual pedophilia, and more. Self-recommending. www.richardhanania.com/p/wild-teen-...
I wrote about why Low Human Capital is so obsessed with "pedophilia."
People at the bottom feel the need to punch down. But they justify it by pretending pedos run society, so they're actually punching up.
The result is resentment-based mass hysteria. www.richardhanania.com/p/why-low-hu...
Watch me read the Supreme Court decision striking down Trump's tariffs.
The courts are the last bastion of intellectual conservatism, placing some limits on presidential power. Everything else has been MAGAfied.
A good day for democracy and the economy.
www.richardhanania.com/p/the-judici...
I wrote about the problem with "white culture."
Identities are not neutral, the ones we adopt communicate something about the world.
Let's not play dumb.
In the American context, we know white identity is held by people who are almost always fascists. www.richardhanania.com/p/the-proble...
Libertarianism believes in individual liberty. Why then are so many who use the label inclined toward authoritarianism, conspiracy thinking, and bigotry?
I explain the strange phenomenon of the populist libertarian and what drives such people. www.richardhanania.com/p/thoughts-o...
When people like Jon Stewart and Oren Cass say they have a problem with "economics," their problem is with the fact that it contradicts their political convictions. As I explain, this is a classic case of shooting the messenger. www.richardhanania.com/p/anti-econo...
Biggest blow to wokeness since Sydney Sweeney’s boobs.
One of the strangest aspects of Sinners that critics have missed is the film's obsession with cunnilingus.
Watch the entire review with Rob Henderson here: www.richardhanania.com/p/black-masc...
I review Sinners with Rob Henderson. The lesson of the movie's success is people love seeing black masculinity in its natural environment. We even read reviews by Douthat and Sailer and react to them in real time. The Sailer one brings much laughter. www.richardhanania.com/p/black-masc...
How I beat my phone addiction
Extremely charming, funny piece by @hananiarichard.bsky.social
unherd.com/2026/02/how-...
For @unherd.com, I wrote about how I beat my phone addiction by embracing moderation while accepting that it is fine to ignore my children while I am online. unherd.com/2026/02/how-...
My advice on changing your mind: “If you want to gain the respect of smart people and trigger dumb ones, then no sentence does the job better than ‘I was wrong, and let me tell you why.’”
I prove this true every day. www.thefp.com/p/richard-ha...
I've got an article in the Free Press on how I changed my mind on Trump, along with an interview. The lesson is that smarter people will respect you more for changing when the facts do, even if it bothers those whose opinions aren't worth caring about. www.thefp.com/p/richard-ha...
Along with Rob Henderson, I will be reviewing Sinners, which swept the Oscars, this Thursday at 3ET. As an ex-racist, I can now appreciate black movies and hope you can too.
You can set a reminder here: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
The fertility rate has fallen as countries have gotten wealthier.
But things are actually worse than that. Even poor countries today have lower fertility than in previous generations.
On the fertility crisis as more than a byproduct of wealth. www.richardhanania.com/p/the-fertil...
Michael Tracey returns online so we can laugh at the latest Epstein idiocy.
The more evidence comes out, the more I have contempt for the conspiracy theorists. The more that comes out, the less and less reason to think there was anything going on.
www.richardhanania.com/p/michael-tr...
The Epstein files have exposed the rottenness of our global elites and their PEDOPHILE conspiracies.
Kidding! That didn’t happen. We just got more confirmation there’s nothing there. Join Michael Tracey and me at 6ET to talk about it. Set reminder here. open.substack.com/live-stream/...?
Doing a livestream on Epstein and other assorted topics now. Come join and give me the most salacious documents you have found. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
What is Dark Woke?
It’s more than a change in communications style.
It’s also a shift in ideology. We’ve moved away from structural privilege and toward powerful rightists are just bad people.
The new woke redeems whites and is better because it’s true. www.richardhanania.com/p/dark-woke-...
In recent years, we've seen more racism, anti-vaxx, MAGA, Nick Shirley.
Yet also the rise of progress studies, rationalism, better social science.
I explain what kind of future to expect as the discourse is getting smarter and dumber at the same time. www.richardhanania.com/p/the-discou...
I've written a lot about the discourse getting dumber. Q, anti-vax, etc
But on an optimistic note, more connectivity has also made the smartest people smarter.
I discuss what this means for the future of the right, left, and human capital polarization. www.richardhanania.com/p/the-discou...
For those who haven't, check out my Reddit page. I'll be doing an AMA at some point. Make sure to become a member not to miss it, and join my community of Indians and other Elite Human Capital. www.reddit.com/r/Hanania/
Thoughts on pro-natalism, Japanese and Korean coffee shops, boomer communism, Democrats' odds in the midterms, Fukuyama-Tyler debate, the history of sex and Christianity.
All that and more in the links and book reviews for January. www.richardhanania.com/p/moving-to-...
Started a book club chat for paid subscribers. The current book is Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chiang, about Chinese industrialization in the mid-aughts and the young women who made it happen. Join here. substack.com/chat/98102/p...
