Archive - Richard Hanania's Newsletter

On Defeating the Stupid/Interested Quadrant

My politics are anti-populist, which kind of sounds like I’m against the average citizen.

Jun 8 • Richard Hanania

Destroying Jobs Is the Entire Basis of Progress

Concerns about specific technologies should focus on their consumption

Jun 1 • Richard Hanania

May 2026

Lions in Ancient Greece, Michael Jackson's Guilt, and More

Links for May 2026

May 29 • Richard Hanania

Why We've Been Thinking about the Fertility Crisis Wrong

Did humans evolve to seek solitude?

May 26 • Richard Hanania

Can AI Replace Me Already?

Results of an AI Turing test survey: Women are ready for our new reality, old people aren't

May 17 • Richard Hanania

Why Is Latin America So Violent?

Rights for criminals and limited state capacity are a bad combination

May 11 • Richard Hanania

How to Get Me to Like You

The importance of persistence in social relationships

May 6 • Richard Hanania

The Iliad as Propaganda Justifying Aristocratic Rule

A theory of Homeric values and cultural stability

May 4 • Richard Hanania

April 2026

Rationalists Turn on Fatima, Update on Venezuela, and More

Links for April 2026

Apr 30 • Richard Hanania

Kash as the Poster Boy for Kakistocracy

This is what civilizational decline looks like

Apr 27 • Richard Hanania

Jesus: Ancient Revolutionary, but Not the Father of the Enlightenment

Review of Tom Holland's Dominion

Apr 23 • Richard Hanania

A Typology of My Haters

The hidden political axis that explains it all

Apr 20 • Richard Hanania

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