Tag: Richard Hanania

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Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke is Christopher Caldwell’s excellent book, The Age of Entitlement, but in a less sober and more opinionated tone, and with more speculation on what’s to be done about the predicament. While both books get the point across, Hanania’s trying to get several other points across that distract from the central thesis: Our legal system contains a civil rights ratcheting mechanism that requires all corporations and organizations to promote a “Leftist” (anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-male, anti-straight) political agenda. (more…)

Charlie Kirk: gone rogue or trying to hijack the dissident Right?

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There have recently been stories about how this or that mainstream conservative commentator is some kind of closet and/or ex-dissident Rightist, or is consuming dissident Right content on the down low. In March, liberals raked Tucker Carlson over the coals after leaked internal text messages revealed that he had read a Takimag article by notorious “Holocaust denier” David Cole and commented favorably on it. And then last month, a hot mic recording of Daily Wire star Matt Walsh surfaced in which he could be heard making “demographics are destiny” arguments about how non-whites would not be able to maintain America’s Anglo-Saxon culture. (more…)

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Back during the Iraq War, patriotic but misguided Americans like me mocked the French as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys.” This was ironic given France’s tradition of martial excellence as reflected in such English borrowings as “platoon,” “lieutenant,” and “reconnaissance,” to name only a few. (more…)

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On Friday, the Huffington Post exposed Substack writer Richard Hanania, a prominent media personality in mainstream conservative/center-Right circles, as a “white supremacist” who wrote for several dissident Right websites, including Counter-Currents, in the early 2010s under the pseudonym “Richard Hoste.” “Hoste” wrote about race realism and human biodiversity (HBD) and advocated for eugenics and immigration restriction. (more…)

Richard Hanania

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Richard Hanania is a rising star among Right-wing intellectuals. He has a J.D. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA. He first came to national attention in 2015 with an op-ed in The Washington Post about why Donald Trump was right not to apologize for his controversial remarks. (This is ironic, given recent events.) (more…)

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Much of what I’ve done here on Counter-Currents has been about discovering the psychological makeup of the various factions vying for power in the West. (more…)

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The Supreme Court upheld Texas’ “Heartbeat” abortion law last week, setting off hysteria on the Left and exhilaration on the mainstream Right. It’s one of the major achievements of the pro-life movement and it could set up the end of Roe v. Wade. This does not end abortion in America, but it does allow individual states to effectively ban it. (more…)