Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Foreign policy, American politics, and social science

Abundance Should Not Erase the Traditional Republican

Reaganism still has something to teach us

09-06
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Why Republican Normies Will Bend the Knee to Groypers

The "I just want to grill" crowd will not save conservatism

09-01
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Abundance DC and Links

Reading, watching, and life, August 2025

08-29
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Can a Bannon-Groyper Alliance Derail Vance?

We're already seeing glimmers of what a post-Trump GOP will look like

08-26
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The Real Epstein Conspiracy?

Why Ghislaine may have been set up

08-25
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The End of Prostitution

Everything is now trafficking and pedophilia

08-20
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The Challenge of Portraying Sex Work Positively

Review of Anora (2024)

08-19
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The Prescience of The Origins of Woke

A tribute to myself

08-17
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Coffee, Cherry Pie, and the Nostalgia Trap

Review of Twin Peaks (1990-1991), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

08-10
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High-Skill Immigration as the Ultimate Progress Issue

There is no version of technofuturism that doesn't appreciate Elite Human Capital

08-08
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Why Everyone Hates the Democrats

In a time of declining trust, MAGA remains immune

08-05
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What Really Happened in the 2016 Election

Debunking Russiagate Myths

08-05
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The Latest on Jeffrey Epstein and Sydney Sweeney

Michael Tracey joins me on the stream this afternoon to talk about the latest in the Epstein saga and additional things he has learned about the accusers.

08-02
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No to Borders, Yes to Allowing Whites-Only Enclaves

Common intuitions are backwards

08-02
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The Importance of Face-to-Face Interactions, the Liberal Confederacy, and More

Plus two BARPod episodes. Links for July 2025.

07-31
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The Colbert Cancellation and Why Comedy Must Now Be Political

Values determine what we find funny

07-28
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Why Does Korea Have an Under-Endowed Men's Movement?

A warning on embracing victimhood culture

07-22
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The Mentally Unstable Epstein Accusers

A recording from Richard Hanania's live video

07-21
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Caveman Brains and International Markets

My first article on the Human Progress website is up.

07-18
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Trump’s Love Letter to Epstein

Alright, I really thought we were done, but with the revelation that Trump wrote a love letter to Epstein about their shared secret interest, I guess not.

07-18
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