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2026 135

  1. Conservatives Are Mad at Indians for Exposing What They Are
  2. Hereditarianism Is for Dummies, the Greatest TV Shows, and More
  3. Embracing the Spiritual and Cultural Integration of the Western Hemisphere
  4. Contra Acemoglu on Political Economy and AI
  5. Choose Mediocrity and Stagnation. Vote Democrat in Texas.
  6. Why Elizabeth Holmes Fascinates Us
  7. How Did Republicans Become Like This?
  8. The Culture War We Need
  9. Einstein’s “Spooky Actions at a Distance” Are Real
  10. Quantum Mechanics, Lesson 1: Superposition
  11. There Are Now Too Many Millionaires to Attack
  12. Mr Tracey Goes to Ithaca
  13. Jocks and Nerds Are Complements, Not Substitutes
  14. Are Immigration Restrictionists Bad People?
  15. Why Don’t Women Love Dinosaurs?
  16. Stop Talking about AI Job Loss and Take Productivity Seriously
  17. Even Ivy League Universities Slut Shame
  18. Why the Rightoid Position on Welfare Is That You Must Insult Shaniqua
  19. Take the Hanania Newsletter Survey
  20. What Kind of Black Guys Found Girlfriends in Post-Hitler Germany?
  21. Which Experts Should You Trust on AI Doom?
  22. Were 1970s Korean Orphanages a Great Place to Raise Kids?
  23. The Trump Theory of Everything
  24. Why Non-White Voters Must Crush Republicans
  25. Women Who Stay in Contact with Their “Rapists” Should Be Stigmatized
  26. Climate Change: The World’s Most Overrated Problem
  27. The Snowflake Fascists of the Authoritarian Right
  28. A Conservatism with Only One Enemy
  29. The Vibes of the Right Are Genocidal
  30. Why Is China Not Freaking Out about AGI?
  31. They Even Hate the Indians Who Like Football
  32. Charlie Kirk Made the Right Conspiratorial and Stupid
  33. Gloria Steinem and the Satanic Panic
  34. Are Keyhole Solutions to Immigration Viable?
  35. What if We’re Already “Solving” Alignment?
  36. There’s Nothing Wrong with “Cheap Labor”
  37. Defending Confederate Monuments Reveals the Moral Emptiness of the Right
  38. The Case for UFOs Is Weaker Than Ever
  39. Afghanistan Today, the Politicization of Sociology, Hugging Face, and More
  40. Esoteric Cofnasism
  41. Outrunning Democracy
  42. Why Socialism Isn’t Coming to America
  43. Why Arday Splits Anglosphere Elites
  44. Do People "Not Understand Overlapping Bell Curves"?
  45. Rich and Successful Men Do Not Have "Power" over Women
  46. To Win Elites Over to Markets, Ditch the Chuds
  47. They're the Ones Who Told Us to Pay Attention to Jason Arday
  48. Care about Growth, Not Distribution
  49. The Strange, Secret, Open Triumph of Race Science
  50. Anti-Gerontocracy as a Trojan Horse for Socialism
  51. Flock, Mass Surveillance, and the Collapse of Crime
  52. For a Grand Patriotic Bargain
  53. Censured for Simping?
  54. Sexual Freedom and the Male Status Paradox
  55. GDP Haters Aren't Making Serious Arguments
  56. Prediction Markets Need Prestige Signals to Fulfill Their Mission
  57. Let's Start Reclaiming Land Again
  58. Why Arizona Republicans Elected a Literal Cuck
  59. Debating Housing and More with Steve Hilton
  60. Why the Tech Right Failed
  61. On White Nationalism's Conquest of Conservatism
  62. We're All Still Living in Denial about the Greeks
  63. Thoughts on Being Profiled in The Atlantic
  64. Why Won't Bill Gates Stand Up for Himself?
  65. What Made The Sopranos Great
  66. Why JD Vance Is Both the Realest and Fakest Politician
  67. Hanania & Tracey Reading Communion, by JD Vance
  68. Populism: The Empirical Evidence
  69. Preorder Kakistocracy, Get One-Year Paid Subscription
  70. Indigenous Activists Defend Progress against Western Civilization
  71. Sixteen Fun Facts about Me
  72. Why Did We Stop Caring about Suffering Africans?
  73. Americans Should Celebrate China's Biotech Revolution
  74. On Defeating the Stupid/Interested Quadrant
  75. Destroying Jobs Is the Entire Basis of Progress
  76. Lions in Ancient Greece, Michael Jackson's Guilt, and More
  77. Why We've Been Thinking about the Fertility Crisis Wrong
  78. Can AI Replace Me Already?
  79. Why Is Latin America So Violent?
  80. How to Get Me to Like You
  81. The Iliad as Propaganda Justifying Aristocratic Rule
  82. Rationalists Turn on Fatima, Update on Venezuela, and More
  83. Kash as the Poster Boy for Kakistocracy
  84. Jesus: Ancient Revolutionary, but Not the Father of the Enlightenment
  85. A Typology of My Haters
  86. Let Bad Writers Use AI to Compose Text
  87. All Writers Will End Up AI-Maxxing, and This Is Good
  88. US-Iran Peace Talks Break Down. What's Next?
  89. Dostoevsky Cucks Himself?
  90. What Iran Won
  91. Two Ways to Think About the Collective Will
  92. Good Friday Book Review: Crime and Punishment
  93. Coups in Africa, Review of Tyler's New Book, Inside the Manosphere, and More
  94. Despite Abundance, Texas Continues to Pull Ahead of California in Housing
  95. Politics as Consolation for Losers
  96. Impromptu Interview with James Fishback
  97. Please Stop Talking about "Zoomers" and "Gen Alpha"
  98. Dostoevsky as Psychologist
  99. Lauren Southern as the Original Egirl
  100. Why You Need to Learn about Trivers' Theory of Self-Deception
  101. Judge Foreign Policy Decisions by Their Immediate Impacts
  102. Is James Fishback the Future of the GOP?
  103. Was Christianity the Original Incel Movement?
  104. Stop Trying to Make Heterosexuals into Lesbians
  105. In Praise of Trump's Leader-Decapitation Strategy
  106. Labor Freedom Is the Best Explanation for the US-Europe Income Gap
  107. What's Next in Iran? w/Graeme Wood of The Atlantic
  108. Anglo Deaths of Despair, North Korean Intranet, Lauren Southern Memoir, and More
  109. Wild Teen or "Survivor"?
  110. Why Low Human Capital Obsesses over Pedophilia
  111. The Judiciary as the Last Bastion of Intellectual Conservatism
  112. The Problem with "White Culture"
  113. Thoughts on Elite Versus Populist Libertarianism
  114. Anti-Economics Is Shooting the Messenger
  115. Black Masculinity in Its Natural Environment
  116. The Fertility Problem Is Getting Worse with Time
  117. Michael Tracey Returns to Slay the Latest Epstein Idiocy
  118. Dark Woke as Redemption for Whites
  119. The Discourse is Getting Both Smarter and Dumber
  120. Moving to San Diego, Interviews, Book Reviews, and More
  121. Does Therapy Culture Explain the Ideological Mental Health Gap?
  122. I Care a Lot What People Think
  123. I Am a Pro-Natalist
  124. The White Women as Race Traitor
  125. Debate with Jeff Maurer about Venezuela
  126. Clavicular and the New Influencer Quietism
  127. George Floyd, Renee Good, and Brainworms Versus Reality
  128. The Unbearable Stupidity of Nick Shirley
  129. Vince Gilligan Interviews as the Word of God
  130. Trump Finds the Golden Mean in Venezuela
  131. The Righteous Mestizo
  132. The Rise of Masturbation, the Decline of Sex
  133. Maduro in Jail. Is America Back?
  134. Regime Change in Venezuela Is a Good Calculated Risk
  135. How Nietzsche Influenced My Life

2025 186

  1. The Feats of Mongol Queens, the American Revolution, and More
  2. Merry Epstein Christmas
  3. "Heritage Americans" Is a Claim to Unearned Status
  4. New Book, Founding Member Perks, and Hegelian Dialectics with Myself
  5. What Really Caused the Great Depression
  6. Why Trump Finally Went too Far
  7. JD Vance Is the White Kendi
  8. Why Venezuela Is Not Iraq
  9. The Backwards Populist Narrative on Covid
  10. Human Capital, Not "Industrial Policy," Explains East Asian Success
  11. The Kim Wexler Theory
  12. How Federal Law Made Us All Disabled
  13. On Being Possessed by the Antihero
  14. Should All Parents Consider Embryo Selection?
  15. Hitler's Sex Life and the Great Man Theory of History
  16. What Does It Mean to Have Gratitude to a Country?
  17. I Dream of Heroic Africans Fighting for Ukraine
  18. The Neoliberal Era Was Not Pro-Market Enough
  19. The Real Target of Pedophile Hysteria Is Age Gap Relationships
  20. Trump's Flaws Make Him Good at the Middle East
  21. Should Republicans Be More Explicitly Racist?
  22. Should You Become a Pod Person?
  23. Patrick Deneen's Work Is Unempirical Drivel
  24. Epstein BOMBSHELL!!!
  25. Why Trump Declared War on Immigrants
  26. Start Demagoguing Against the Old
  27. Human Attraction Is Not about Words
  28. Groypers Are Just More Honest MAGAs
  29. The End of Nostalgia?
  30. Believe in Markets, Not Men (or Women)
  31. Groyperization Accelerating
  32. Charles Murray Comes to Jesus, the Fall of the Based, and More
  33. Fatima and the Sample Size Compensation (SSC) Fallacy
  34. Liberalism, ISIS, and Toaster Nationalism
  35. On the Success of Neoliberalism
  36. Why the Media Is Pro-Trump (yes, you read that right)
  37. Woke, Pre-Woke, or Post-Woke?
  38. The China Shock and Why the Midwest Needs to Decline
  39. The "Feminization" Discourse as Partisan Hackery
  40. Was I "Sexually Assaulted"?
  41. Highlights to the Comments on "Bring Back the Internet Gatekeepers"
  42. How AI Made Me 33% More Productive
  43. Humor, the Causes of War, and Everything in Between with Steven Pinker
  44. Why It Probably Gets Worse After Trump
  45. The Arc of the Culture War Bends toward...Bari?
  46. Bring Back the Internet Gatekeepers
  47. Open Borders, the Lessons of UAE, DEI at GMU, and More with Bryan Caplan
  48. No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare
  49. Performing Gender, Left and Right
  50. The Horror of North Korea, IQ and Aging, Falcons, and More
  51. Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation
  52. Indians Are Hated Because They Are Dark and Can't Play Football
  53. Ten Further Thoughts on Right-Wing Cancel Culture
  54. Leo Strauss Watching Hitler in Modern Germany
  55. Pascal's Wager as Spiritual Extortion
  56. Christian Nationalism Rising
  57. Please Find Less Stupid Ways to Defend Trump
  58. Power is Power
  59. How Big Pharma Saved My Skin
  60. Beyond the Culture War: Getting Serious about Reducing Crime
  61. Charlie Kirk and the Leader-Mob Dynamic of Trumpism
  62. Default Scripts and Dating as a Checklist
  63. What Is "the Left"?
  64. Dumbest Form of Racism, Dumbest Form of Socialism
  65. "The Left" Did Not Kill Charlie Kirk
  66. American Nationalism as an Israeli Import
  67. Independent Thinkers Are Allowed to Appreciate Good Things
  68. Abundance Should Not Erase the Traditional Republican
  69. Why Republican Normies Will Bend the Knee to Groypers
  70. Abundance DC and Links
  71. Can a Bannon-Groyper Alliance Derail Vance?
  72. The Real Epstein Conspiracy?
  73. The End of Prostitution
  74. The Challenge of Portraying Sex Work Positively
  75. The Prescience of The Origins of Woke
  76. Coffee, Cherry Pie, and the Nostalgia Trap
  77. High-Skill Immigration as the Ultimate Progress Issue
  78. Why Everyone Hates the Democrats
  79. What Really Happened in the 2016 Election
  80. The Latest on Jeffrey Epstein and Sydney Sweeney
  81. No to Borders, Yes to Allowing Whites-Only Enclaves
  82. The Importance of Face-to-Face Interactions, the Liberal Confederacy, and More
  83. The Colbert Cancellation and Why Comedy Must Now Be Political
  84. Why Does Korea Have an Under-Endowed Men's Movement?
  85. The Mentally Unstable Epstein Accusers
  86. Caveman Brains and International Markets
  87. Trump’s Love Letter to Epstein
  88. The Beautiful Ironies of Epstein Conspiracy Theories
  89. The Epstein Files: A Democrat Plot?
  90. Curb Your Enthusiasm Liberalism
  91. Can Sex with Rightists Solve Polarization?
  92. The Inverted Reality of Epstein Conspiracy Theorists
  93. Scott Wiener on the YIMBY Victory in California
  94. Links for June 2025
  95. Is Israel Waging Forever War?
  96. EMERGENCY: US Bombs Iran
  97. Waiting for War, and a Debate on Regime Change
  98. The Case for Regime Change in Iran, and How Not to Screw It Up
  99. Conservatives Still Don't Read, but Now Listen to Rogan
  100. Government Science and the Prestige Economy
  101. What's Behind Trump's War on Science?
  102. LA Riots, and Why Immigrants Are Going MAGA
  103. The Incel Election
  104. Anti-Abundance Types Are Wrong About Housing Market Concentration
  105. Links, May 2025
  106. Two Cheers for the Democratic Establishment?
  107. The Facedoxx: Radfem Hitler Is Prettier Than You
  108. Right-Wing Intellectuals under Trump, Andrew Jackson and MAGA, "Ethnic Niches" and More
  109. Girl Belongs to the World
  110. Mailbag #4, Plus Update on Tuesday Event
  111. Trump of Arabia, FP Report on Qatar, and More
  112. Me in The Economist: Don't Try to MAGAfy Harvard
  113. Yarvin's Strange Argument on Populism and Gain-of-Function Research
  114. A Unified Theory of the Far Right
  115. The Five Big Lies about Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador
  116. Play-by-Play Pick-Up Artistry
  117. No, You Don't Get to Elect the Microchips in Soda Guy
  118. The Future of the American Right
  119. I'm Coming to DC May 18, Plus Book Reviews and More
  120. What I Got Wrong about Trump
  121. My Life in a Mexican Troubled Teen Camp
  122. Breakthrough in Ukraine Negotiations?
  123. Lower and Higher Order Race Realism
  124. How to Get a Visit from the Secret Service
  125. MAGAs to the Physics Department, Anti-MAGAs to El Salvador
  126. The Based Ritual
  127. Sexual Harassment and the Making of Modern Conservative Media
  128. The Mad King Announces a 90-Day Pause
  129. Trump Does Have a Plan. It's North Korea.
  130. Learning to Embrace Progress and Overcome Guilt
  131. A Sojourn in Nayib Bukele's El Salvador
  132. Kakistocracy as a Natural Result of Populism
  133. Wisconsin Slaps Down Elon
  134. The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism, African Borders, and a New Book
  135. Sending War Plans over Groupchat
  136. Autogynephilia with Buddhist Characteristics
  137. The Death Penalty as Sacrifice to the God of Progress
  138. A Holistic Policy of Anti-Antisemitism
  139. Boomer Liberalism Must Be Overcome
  140. Why Donald Trump and Joe Rogan Are Not "Elites"
  141. More Musk, Vox Interview, and an Even Shorter Response to Ganz
  142. Is Trump Serious about Annexing Canada?
  143. The Two Faces of 리사
  144. Liberals Only Censor. Musk Seeks to Lobotomize.
  145. AMA, 3/5/25
  146. The Rightoid of the Left
  147. Why Billionaires Go Insane
  148. Zelensky Has Behaved Honorably. He Should Now Resign.
  149. The End of Zelensky?
  150. Rome, Book Reviews on WWII and the History of the Presidency. Plus, Newsletter Dating Service?
  151. Can Bezos Bring Elite Human Capital to Free Markets?
  152. WE’RE GETTING THOSE MINERALS!!!
  153. About Those Nazi Salutes
  154. "Chadcels" and Incest Dynamics | The White Lotus, S3: E1-E2
  155. The Trump-Elon Bromance Is Built to Last
  156. Does God Want You to Listen to This Conversation?
  157. Is the AfD Crypto-Fascist? No More Than Republicans Are
  158. Why Conservatives Love Andrew Tate
  159. DOGE as a Control Mechanism of the Trump-Musk Co-Presidency
  160. American Governance Is Not Corrupt Enough
  161. Letting Palestinians Move Is Not "Ethnic Cleansing"
  162. The Miraculous Findings of Paleogenetics
  163. A Mate Selection Theory of Feminization
  164. Why You Shouldn't Worry about AI Taking Jobs
  165. Race Posting Is Not a Personality
  166. Nationalists Already Have the World They Want but Need to Pretend Otherwise
  167. Trump, Elon, and Embracing the Future | Richard Hanania & Noah Smith
  168. Trump's Executive Branch Revolution
  169. Elite Human Capital in Open and Closed Cultures
  170. Ayn Rand as Self-Help: The Good, the Bad, and the Tragicomedy
  171. More on the Vibes Shift, Alexander the Great, Elderly Mobsters, and More
  172. Into the Dream World of David Lynch
  173. DeepSeek: Hype and Reality
  174. Two Ways to Understand the "Vibe Shift"
  175. Winning the War on DEI
  176. Thoughts on Trump Ending Affirmative Action in Contracting
  177. The Ultimate Guide to Trump's Day 1 Executive Orders
  178. Inauguration Day Stream
  179. Ayn Rand for Pragmatists
  180. Defeat Racism by Heightening the Contradictions
  181. Should American Men Work at Panda Express?
  182. Reading/TV, Podcasts, and Elite Human Capital
  183. Thoughts on Being a California Fire Refugee
  184. Should America Buy Greenland?
  185. At the 90th Percentile of Ayn Rand Appreciation
  186. Exchange with Amy Wax on Immigration

2024 183

  1. Enjoying Trans Women, the End of Race Science, and More
  2. 2024 Was the Year I Didn't Change Much
  3. Nietzschean Chuds and the Indian Christmas War
  4. The Origins of Elite Human Capital Institutions and Communities
  5. Bioaccelerationism Is a No-Brainer
  6. Donald Trump and the Decivilizing of the Right
  7. The Cowardly Lion, the Jacked Falconer, and the (Possible) Triumph of Islamo-Capitalism
  8. Syria and Uncle Sam as the Hegelian Hammer
  9. Hanania, Tracey, Assad
  10. Boy, Girl, Boy
  11. Economic Reasoning and Self-Help
  12. "Do Your Own Research" (from credible sources)
  13. Hunter Gets Away, Assad Falters, and the Trump In-Laws Come to Washington
  14. AI Progress, Racism and the Election, Trump Picks, and More
  15. Announcing: Book on Elite Human Capital
  16. A New Rising Center?
  17. Hanania/Tracey: Gaetz Withdraws!!
  18. Non-Leftist Media and the Michael Shellenberger Problem
  19. Talking Trump Appointments
  20. I Am Paying Reparations to the Shrimp
  21. Indifference to Woke Isn't Enough
  22. Hillary Versus Bernie in Gotham
  23. Politics is Full of Bad People Who Do Good Things
  24. Time to Retire "Demographics is Destiny"
  25. This is MAGA Country!!!!
  26. Election Day Lives Stream
  27. 17 Thoughts on the Election
  28. Is Trump America-Pilling the Left?
  29. Somewhere in America...
  30. Closing Arguments: Live Stream with Michael Tracey
  31. On Enjoying Election Year Halloween
  32. Hanania/Henderson, AMA
  33. The Catturd to Silicon Valley Billionaire Pipeline Must Be Broken
  34. Are the Polls too Close to Be Trusted?
  35. Why Are Americans So Rich?
  36. Rightists as Low Decouplers: Examples from the Comments
  37. Do We Need Sports Betting to Get to Mars? Maybe
  38. Catholic Integralists Versus the American Spirit
  39. My Highly Decoupled Election
  40. The Peasant Theory of Communist Brutality
  41. How Catturd Made Me a Better Person
  42. Tony Soprano Meets DC Comics
  43. Why Americans Should Die for Ukraine
  44. Democrats Are Still Getting Rolled by Their Interest Groups
  45. Black Republicans and Big Man Syndrome
  46. Safe Bets, Lotto Tickets, and Vibes
  47. Conservatives Are Lying on Immigrant Crime
  48. The World According to Amy Wax
  49. More Sweeney Boob Discourse, Deflationary Liberalism, and More
  50. ChatGPT Comes for the Wordcel Trad
  51. MAGA Defends Eric Adams
  52. AMA with Rob Henderson, 9/24/24
  53. Staring into the Abyss of MAGA
  54. The Comfortable Queen and the Conflicted Country Boy
  55. Voters Hate Intellectuals
  56. Discourse, Reality, and Bizarro World Populism
  57. The Arc of Trumpism Bends Towards Jonestown
  58. The Conservative Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
  59. Tattoos as Cargo Cult Danger and Rebellion
  60. Taylor Swift as the Median Voter
  61. The Village and the River: Synthesis or Coming War?
  62. Brazil as a Warning
  63. Elite Human Capital Is Not Just IQ
  64. The Man Who Solved the Mystery of Shakespeare
  65. Unions Are Not the Way to Help Workers
  66. The Incredible World of Biogeography
  67. Left-Wing Ideologies Are Not Conspiracy Theories
  68. Trump Makes Pro-Life a Regional Movement
  69. The Rise of the Dale Gribble Voter
  70. James Burnham Got Almost Everything Wrong
  71. Mailbag #3
  72. Why Is Foucault Our Most Successful Intellectual?
  73. Hating Modern Conservatism While Voting Republican
  74. Taking the Greerhead Pledge
  75. Organized Labor Requires Government Coercion
  76. The Sexual Marketplace as the Last Vestige of Our Darwinian Past
  77. Female Sexuality is Socially Constructed
  78. 5 Mini-Book Reviews on Israel-Palestine
  79. The Policy Panacea
  80. Democrats Have an Intelligentsia, Republicans Have a Personality Cult
  81. Destiny Interview, Nietzschean Yglesias, and More
  82. Elite Human Capital Is Always Liberal
  83. Who's to Blame for White Poverty?
  84. Trump Supporter Derangement Syndrome (TSDS)
  85. Tech Right or Right-Wing Statism: Which Way for JD Vance?
  86. The Successor to Trump
  87. 10 Thoughts on Poland, and Warm Blooded Nationalism
  88. Why Are There So Few Assassinations?
  89. The Opportunity Costs of Having Children
  90. Free Speech Should Be a Masculine Virtue
  91. Links for the Month
  92. Biden Won't Quit Because Being Old Sucks
  93. READER REQUEST: Rightists as Cheap Dates
  94. The Broad Lessons of YIMBY
  95. From Caliphate to Consulting
  96. Will Leopold Awaken the Chinese Giant?
  97. Fatherhood as Practicing Virtue
  98. The Supreme Court Inches Towards Liberty
  99. Biden Sacrifices His Son for Democracy
  100. Forced Diaper Wearing Is Not "Human Dignity"
  101. More Births, Please
  102. Why You Should “Punch Right”
  103. Why MAGA Enables Corruption
  104. Is Trump More Sinned Against or Sinner?
  105. Why Asia Stopped Having Kids
  106. Whales May Soon Be Talking to Us
  107. The Dissident Right Should Engage with the Substance of Ideas
  108. When to Use Fancy Words
  109. Learning to Appreciate All Women
  110. Article in Tablet: "How to Be a Better Ally"
  111. Did I Sin Against Brian Lamb?
  112. Haters, Left and Right
  113. "I'm Not Going to Sleep with You!" Means She Probably Will
  114. Nazism and the Failure of Arab Modernity
  115. Taking the Medium-Term Past Seriously
  116. Article in Tablet: “Is the Backlash to Universities Becoming Real?"
  117. God, Moral Realism, Utilitarianism, and Other Light Topics
  118. Livestream on Thursday, May 9, 9PM ET
  119. It Doesn't Matter if "Abortion is Killing a Person"
  120. The Weird Traditionalism of Korean Feminists
  121. Self-Driving Cars, Rufo v. Tracey, Shogun, and More
  122. Forty Years of Economic Freedom Winning
  123. Too Gay to Rebel
  124. Highlights from the Comments to "China Doesn't Have the Balls to Invade Taiwan"
  125. The Rape Free Civil War
  126. China Doesn't Have the Balls to Invade Taiwan
  127. Sydney Sweeney Funds Ukraine
  128. Raising Kids as a Hereditarian
  129. If Scott Alexander Told Me to Jump off a Bridge...
  130. The OnlyFans Aristocrats
  131. AI Doomerism as Science Fiction
  132. Sydney Sweeney Smashes the Patriarchy
  133. The Man in the Arena
  134. The Promises and Pitfalls of RETVRN
  135. IQ Autism, Family Effects, How to Regulate Water, Levitt on Staying Relevant, and More
  136. A Mememaker's Journey
  137. Coping with Low Human Capital
  138. Why the Left Loves Porn and Hates Sex
  139. Yes, Sydney Sweeney's Boobs Are Anti-Woke
  140. Thirteen Thoughts on Saddam Hussein
  141. Towards a Gay Ex-Mormon Furry Centrism
  142. America Has Black Nationalism, Not Balkanization
  143. Social Conservatism as 4D Chess
  144. MAGA, Brain Drain, Not Practicing Law, My First Book, and More
  145. Understanding the Blockchain
  146. Two Types of White Liberals: Blacks Versus Natives
  147. Successes of the American Empire I: A Free South Korea
  148. The Tragedy of Womanhood
  149. Origins of Woke Discount, Origins of Ukraine War, Natcon as a Vibes Movement, and More
  150. My Political Development
  151. Mailbag #2
  152. Thank Alabama for the Coming Superbabies
  153. The Von Erich Curse
  154. The Charisma Vampire
  155. Shut Up About Race and IQ
  156. Putin as the Patron Saint of Right Wing Misanthropy
  157. The Whitewashing of Walter White
  158. All Hail the Moscow Supermarket!
  159. German Militarism and the Virtues of Hypocrisy
  160. Epistemology in a World of Fake Data
  161. Judging the Media with Bryan Caplan
  162. Which Party Protects Animals?
  163. The Autism Horseshoe
  164. How Evangelicals Turned on Abortion
  165. Student Discounts, Plus Kagame, Jewish Genetics, and More
  166. Talent, Motivation, and Serendipity: How to Make It as a Writer
  167. Taylor Swift Democrats
  168. Critical Age Theory
  169. Stop Mutilating Your Sons
  170. Why Palestine Can't Deliver Peace
  171. Permanent Democratic Majority?
  172. Politics Isn't Why You're Single
  173. Did Mercantilism Cause the Napoleonic Wars?
  174. Review of Napoleon (2023)
  175. Bullying Grandma Syndrome
  176. Why the Technocapital Machine is Stronger than DEI
  177. Race and Racism among the Proles
  178. How Much Truth Can We Take?
  179. The Fat Man's Guide to Being Skinny
  180. How Populism Enables Gerontocracy
  181. Breaking Bad: A Love Story?
  182. Embracing It/It Identity
  183. Are Men Smarter than Women?

2023 154

  1. Napoleon, Bismarck, Free Speech on Substack, Russell Kirk, and More
  2. Amy Wax Versus the “Midwit Gynocrats"
  3. Gerontocracy Versus Western Civilization
  4. Armenia: Despair, Hope, and Rebirth
  5. Searching for Closure
  6. Writers Are (Relatively) Poor, but Can Still Be Very Lucky
  7. Fiddling with Nature: Surrogacy and the Future of Humanity (Audio and Video)
  8. The Great Jewish Realignment of 2023
  9. Anti-Surrogacy as a Totalitarian Dysgenics Movement
  10. How War is Like NIMBY
  11. DeSantis Finally Shows Up, and the Future of Universities
  12. How Trump Proved Experts Wrong on Israel
  13. Miracles, but Randomly
  14. Effective Altruism Thinks You're Hitler
  15. Huge Savings on the Richard Hanania Newsletter!
  16. Did Zionism Come Too Late?
  17. Dominic Cummings, Yarvin on Singer, Black People Magic, Vultures, and More
  18. Israel Must Crush Palestinian Hopes
  19. I'm Thankful I'm Not a Fly
  20. The Inferiority of Men
  21. Reacting to Societal Shocks
  22. How I Learned to Love the American Empire
  23. The Kings and Queens Theory of Fertility
  24. The Rise of Nikki Haley
  25. Ukraine, My Writing Process, Video Games, and More
  26. BONUS: Friend-Enemy Distinction?
  27. The Morality of Conquest
  28. Stop Overrating the Discourse
  29. Black Guy Hitting on Girls (BGHG)
  30. The Last Aristocrat and the Riff-Raff Revolution
  31. Negotiate with Hamas?
  32. Mailbag #1
  33. Oppenheimer Book, the Chauvin Case, Donating Kidneys, and More
  34. Building a Mythos for the Non-Christian Right
  35. The Trump-Bush (Tushist? Brumpist?) Synthesis
  36. Against Ideaism
  37. Announcing Insight Prediction Partnership
  38. Western Nationalists as Palestinians
  39. "Do Better, Jews"
  40. Wars of Necessity, and Wars of Choice
  41. Cancel Culture Comes for the Left
  42. The Ethical Case for a Siege of Gaza
  43. Shakespeare is Fake
  44. Roundup of Reviews and Media Appearances
  45. Death and Comedy in Urban America
  46. The Reactionary Case for Democracy
  47. The Conscientious Objector to Therapy Culture
  48. Best of Twitter, September 2023
  49. Finally! Our January 6 Fight
  50. How to Not Get Cancelled
  51. The Fall of Kendi and the Return of #MeToo
  52. The Case for Reading One Particular Book
  53. FIRE/Free Press Debate, the Sexual Revolution, Fame Versus Influence, and More
  54. Populism Makes Worse People
  55. Obama's Alleged Homosexuality, the Promise and Perils of New Media, and the Return of Covid
  56. On the Death of a Common American Culture
  57. Changes in Music, 1998-2022
  58. Clown Car: 8/31/23
  59. Best of Twitter, August 2023
  60. Clown Car: 8/24/23
  61. Clown Car: 8/24/23 (Video)
  62. Vaccines and the Tightrope of Progress
  63. Did One Film Change American Culture?
  64. Clown Car: 8/17/23
  65. Clown Car: 8/10/23
  66. A New Opportunity, and a Response to Yarvin
  67. Why I Used to Suck, and (Hopefully) No Longer Do
  68. Privacy Versus Progress in Medicine
  69. Best of Twitter, July 2023
  70. Barbenheimer with Rob Henderson
  71. Why You Should Preorder My Book
  72. Propaganda, Spectacle, and the Joy of Politics
  73. Clown Car: 7/20/23
  74. How Much Do Intellectuals Matter?
  75. Clown Car: 7/13/23
  76. Richard Hanania: Liberalism Might Just Be Closer to Human Nature
  77. Strategies and Heuristics for Confronting Liberal Institutions
  78. The Ultimate Boomer Bait
  79. Clown Car: 7/6/23
  80. Class Affirmative Action Is Worse
  81. Best of Twitter, June 2023
  82. Why SFFA v Harvard Matters
  83. Clown Car: 6/28/23
  84. Why I Oppose Eugenics
  85. The Humble Capitalist
  86. The Active Voice: Richard Hanania is seeking ‘enlightened centrism’
  87. Clown Car: 6/22/23
  88. Eating Animals and the Virtues of Honesty
  89. What Does It Mean to "Like" Someone?
  90. Clown Car: 6/15/23
  91. Thread on "Diversity Really is Our Strength"
  92. How Woke Caused Cultural Decadence
  93. Upcoming Thread on "Diversity Really is Our Strength"
  94. Diversity Really is Our Strength
  95. Clown Car: 6/8/23
  96. DeSantis Should Challenge Trump to a Fight
  97. Understanding the Tech Right
  98. Your Favorite Writers Aren't "Brave"
  99. Clown Car: 6/1/23
  100. Best of Twitter, 5/31/23
  101. The LGBT Dialectic
  102. The Cuttlefish Strategy
  103. Clown Car: 5/25/23
  104. Ron Unz Confronts the Far Right
  105. Speech to the Yale Federalist Society
  106. The Triumph of the Girlboss?
  107. Interracial Crime and “Perspective”
  108. The Case Against (Most) Books
  109. My Plan to Slow Down Aging
  110. The Biomechanics of Trumpism
  111. Anti-Woke as Autism
  112. The Old School Reformer's Case for Privatizing Education
  113. Towards an Enlightened Centrism
  114. The Talking Head to Fascism Pipeline?
  115. AMA on "Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV"
  116. Fat Shaming and Free Will
  117. Substack Notes as High-Quality Twitter
  118. Why Women Rebel against Pro-Life
  119. Robert Trivers, Stalin, and the Dark Side of Idealism
  120. Twitter Subscriptions and New Substack Price
  121. How to Be an Intellectual
  122. SCOTUS Must Go for the Heart of the Race State
  123. Deepfakes Will Make the Establishment Stronger
  124. The Nietzschean Nostalgia of Logan Roy
  125. Conservatives Win All the Time
  126. Interpreting Data, Sympathizing with AI, Nietzschean Maoism, etc
  127. The March of Civilization
  128. The East Asian Package
  129. Why Labor Unions Are Immoral
  130. So Long to Deadwood
  131. Pinker on Alignment and Intelligence as a "Magical Potion"
  132. Want to Be Friends?
  133. The Midwit Meme and the Denial of Tradeoffs
  134. Robin Hanson Says You're Going to Live
  135. The Invisible Graveyard of Crime
  136. The Anti-Hero Goes Soft
  137. How I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression
  138. Monogamous Pimps?
  139. Giant Animals, IQ Threshold Effects, Putin Gives Up on Nukes, and More
  140. Comments on "Can a Paperclip Maximizer Overthrow the CCP?"
  141. Selling a Positive Culture War Message
  142. Why EA Will Be Anti-Woke or Die
  143. French Anti-Wokeness as a Second Best Solution
  144. Can a Paperclip Maximizer Overthrow the CCP?
  145. Hitler, Demi Moore, and Other "Pedophiles"
  146. PredictIt Lives, Unz Vs. Anti-Vaxx, Pagan Morality, etc.
  147. Thread on "Why the Media is Honest and Good"
  148. How to Legalize Prediction Markets
  149. Subscriber Thread on the Media and UATX Event
  150. Why the Media is Honest and Good
  151. Understanding Western Exceptionalism
  152. The Most Evil Contemporary Philosophy, Paranoid Readers, and Trading with Ants
  153. Man Needs Sex and Violence, Not Top-Down "Meaning"
  154. Canadian Euthanasia as Moral Progress

2022 114

  1. Comedy and Politics, Zero-Sum Thinking, Flying Cars, and More
  2. Sam Bankman-Fried, Racial Politics, and Dirty Cops
  3. Reflections on 2022
  4. Links and Best of Twitter, 12/16/22
  5. Monogamy as Dysfunction
  6. Links and Best of Twitter, 12/9
  7. The DeSantis Revolution
  8. Bisexual Classical Liberalism
  9. Conservatism as an Oppositional Culture
  10. Links and Best of Twitter, 12/2/22
  11. Steelmanning Support for Ukraine
  12. How Monogamy and Incest Taboos Made the West
  13. Woke as Politics and as a Personality Type
  14. Links and Best of Twitter, 11/18/22
  15. Video and Transcript: How Does the War in Ukraine End?
  16. How Does the War in Ukraine End?
  17. The Overman Cuts People off in Traffic
  18. True Crime as Prole Entertainment
  19. Video: True Crime as Prole Entertainment
  20. Election Takes and Links, 11/11/22
  21. Abortion as the Affirmative Action of the Right
  22. Links and Best of Twiter, 11/4/22
  23. Republicans as the Lesser of Two Evils
  24. New Subscriber Chat
  25. 2022 Midterm Predictions
  26. Occam's Razor and Serial Killers
  27. Video: Occam's Razor and Serial Killers
  28. Links, 10/28/22
  29. Kidney Markets and Gender-Affirming Care
  30. Should We Talk about Serial Killers?
  31. Video: Should We Talk about Serial Killers?
  32. Iran and the Hopelessness of Social Conservatism
  33. Video: The Impact of Winter, and Iranian Drones and Missiles
  34. The Impact of Winter, and Iranian Drones and Missiles
  35. A Psychological Theory of the Culture War
  36. Links, 10/21/22
  37. Video/Transcript: Could China Conquer Taiwan?
  38. Could China Conquer Taiwan?
  39. Links, 10/14/22
  40. Please Don't Call Me "Heterodox"
  41. Links, 10/7/22
  42. Why Gender Ideology Can’t Survive Elon
  43. HIMARS as Miracle Weapons
  44. The Year of Fukuyama
  45. Links, 9/30/22
  46. Why I'm Suing the Federal Government over PredictIt
  47. The Problem with Polling Might Be Unfixable
  48. Links, 9/23/22
  49. The Threat of Nuclear Escalation is Increasing
  50. Affirmative Action as a Magic Bullet
  51. Links, 9/16/22
  52. Saying Goodbye to Twitter
  53. A Conversation with Tyler
  54. How Reagan Almost Crushed Wokeness
  55. Does Immigration Threaten Western Civilization?
  56. How I Overcame Anxiety
  57. Survey Results III: Birth Order Effects
  58. Redemption...or Not? Marc Andreessen and Chris Nicholson on Better Call Saul
  59. Prison Politics and Casting Real People as TV Characters
  60. Survey Results II: Likes and Dislikes
  61. Better Call Saul: S6E12, Waterworks
  62. Better Call Saul: S6E11, Breaking Bad
  63. Survey Results I: Basic Demographics and Politics
  64. Better Call Saul: S6E10, Nippy
  65. Nietzschean or Christian? Marc Andreessen on Breaking Bad and Saul
  66. Better Call Saul: S6E9, Fun and Games
  67. Lessons on How to Fix Academia
  68. Male and Female Competition
  69. Better Call Saul: S6E8, Point and Shoot
  70. Richard Hanania Newsletter Survey
  71. Passing the Bechdel Test
  72. Finally, Real Money
  73. Sports, Dating, Happiness, Data
  74. Thoughts on Epistemology and Rising Appearance
  75. How to Use Civil Rights Law to End Mask Mandates
  76. Sexuality, Nationalism, and What to Teach Kids
  77. A Feminist Allegory?
  78. The Northman
  79. Plan and Execution
  80. Better Call Saul: S6E7, Plan and Execution
  81. Why Do I Hate Pronouns More Than Genocide?
  82. Podcast Housekeeping
  83. Talking Saul
  84. The Breaking Bad Universe
  85. Actually, Twitter is Real Life
  86. Plutocracy: The Alternative to Caesarism?
  87. The Politics of Generation, Race, and Class in France
  88. UT Austin Event, Book Reviews, and Michael Tracey Podcast
  89. Ask Me Anything 1, 4/14/22
  90. The Law that Banned Everything
  91. Why You Should Be on Substack
  92. Appearance on the Russell Brand Podcast
  93. You Should Have Kids
  94. New Appointment and Ask Me Anything
  95. Is Wokeness a Paper Tiger?
  96. How to Think about the "Current Thing"
  97. Assimilation, Football, Affirmative Action, and IQ Outliers
  98. Why Forecasting War is Hard
  99. Yes, We Understand You Hate Putin. That Won't End the War.
  100. Lessons from Forecasting the Ukraine War
  101. Lunar Society Appearance and the Case Against Antitrust
  102. Why a Multipolar World Will Be More Humane
  103. Appearance on Tucker, 2/14/22
  104. The Future of Humanity Is IVF Babies and Chinese Domination
  105. Why Conservative Elites Make for Better TV: A Discussion on Succession
  106. Why Conservative Elites Make for Better TV: A Discussion of Succession
  107. Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas
  108. Podcast Appearances, Responding to Critics, and Why a Russian Invasion Is Likely
  109. Thinking about Influence in DC
  110. Russia as the "Great Satan" in the Liberal Imagination
  111. The Wright Show, and Interview with Freddie deBoer
  112. Hanania, Caplan, Razib in TX, January 19
  113. Fertility as the Final Boss in Chinese Development, and Richard Hanania Prediction Markets
  114. Breaking Points Appearance

2021 69

  1. New Book: Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy
  2. Review of Patton (1970)
  3. Review of Patton (1970)
  4. The "Thucydides Trap" Does Not Explain Geopolitics
  5. Reflections on 2021
  6. US Foreign Policy as a "Big, Dumb Machine"
  7. America as a "Phantom Empire"
  8. The Problems with Anti-Wokeness
  9. The Weirdness of Government Variation in COVID-19 Responses
  10. The Problem with White Male Liberalism
  11. All in Our Genes
  12. Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV
  13. American Versus Korean Poverty
  14. Review of Parasite (2019)
  15. Wokeness as Saddam Statues: The Case of the Tesla Elevator Operator
  16. The Sopranos Goes Woke
  17. Review of White Lotus (2021)
  18. Rationality Requires Incentives: An Interview with Steven Pinker
  19. NYT Article: Save Expertise from the Experts
  20. Futarchy: Robin Hanson on How Prediction Markets Can Take over the World
  21. Review of The Chair, and Criticisms of the Afghan Withdrawal as Pro-War Propaganda
  22. Review of The Chair
  23. Tetlock and the Taliban
  24. Review of Nobody (2021)
  25. Collection of Afghanistan Content
  26. Flying X-Wings into the Death Star: Andreessen on Investing and Tech
  27. Transcript of Eureka Podcast
  28. Eureka Podcast on Feminization
  29. Me on The Hill TV on COVID Restrictions
  30. Are COVID Restrictions the New TSA?
  31. Are COVID Restrictions the New TSA?
  32. New Podcast with Rob Henderson on TV and Pop Culture
  33. What Made The Sopranos Unique?
  34. Media Appearances on Cuba, Afghanistan, China
  35. Governments Have a Right to Ban Critical Race Theory, But It Doesn't Matter if They Do
  36. Governments Have a Right to Ban Critical Race Theory, But It Doesn't Matter if They Do
  37. UPDATE: Private Feed Should Work
  38. Audio Substack: New Subscription Service
  39. Podcast with Razib Khan, 6/19/21
  40. Appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight
  41. The Hill TV on Woke Institutions
  42. The Myths of World War II
  43. Newsweek Article on Tulsa Massacre
  44. Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law
  45. The Hill Appearance on US/China Relations
  46. Why Most China Analysis is Just Cope
  47. Trump 2024 Talk
  48. UFOs Aren't Real
  49. Predictions, Spring 2021
  50. Freedom House, Woke Imperialists
  51. Join Me on Clubhouse Tonight
  52. More Media on Woke Institutions
  53. Media Appearances on Woke Institutions
  54. 2016: The Turning Point
  55. Why is Everything Liberal?
  56. On the Afghanistan Withdrawal
  57. Biden Leaving Afghanistan
  58. The Dishonest Trans Women in Sports Debate
  59. Suez Canal Blockage and B.1.1.7
  60. Why the US Should Leave Iraq and Syria
  61. Racial Politics, and Why Conservatives Always Lose
  62. Op-ed on Tucker v. Military
  63. Updates on CSPI, op-eds
  64. CSPI Report on Academic Freedom
  65. Media Appearances on Afghanistan Withdrawal
  66. Bastiat Society Talk on China
  67. Discussion with Zach Goldberg
  68. Happy Inauguration Day
  69. Capitol Hill Craziness

2020 15

  1. 2020: The Year in Books
  2. What I Learned in 2020
  3. Articles and Media, Wk of 12/13
  4. Causes of Support for Immigration
  5. Introducing CSPI
  6. On the U.S.-China Relationship
  7. The Problem with "Great Power Competition"
  8. Brown Pundits Podcast, 11/12/20
  9. Michael Tracey Livestream, 11/12/20
  10. Brown Pundits Podcast, 10/31/20
  11. No Second American Civil War
  12. What I've Been Reading
  13. Election Polling: A Scientific Success Story
  14. Introduction
  15. Foreign policy, American politics, and social science