25 Facts About Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania was born on August 28,1985 and is an American political science researcher and right-wing political commentator.

Richard Hanania is the founder and president of the think tank Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

Richard Hanania has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Quillette.

Richard Hanania wrote The Origins of Woke and publishes his newsletter on Substack.

Richard Hanania acknowledged and disavowed his writing under the pseudonym when it was reported in 2023.

Richard Hanania was a contributor to Project 2025 regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.

Richard Hanania attended Moraine Valley Community College and the University of Colorado.

Richard Hanania received a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago and a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Richard Hanania said the experience "completely changed the course of my life for the better".

Richard Hanania has written opinion pieces for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Quillette.

Richard Hanania is the founder of the think tank the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

Richard Hanania writes a blog, which was received positively by figures such as the Mercatus economists Tyler Cowen and Bryan Caplan and JD Vance, noted by Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie, and publicized by Tucker Carlson, who invited Richard Hanania on his show twice.

Richard Hanania operates a podcast where he has interviewed various people, including the billionaire Marc Andreessen.

Richard Hanania is often labeled as a libertarian, but he supports limiting civil liberties through increased police power aimed at Black Americans and has praised mass arrests in El Salvador.

In October 2023, Richard Hanania was noted for praising a book by Costin Vlad Alamariu, known for his fascist persona Bronze Age Pervert.

In 2024, it was reported that Richard Hanania was one of several hundred contributors to the writing of Project 2025.

Richard Hanania has since criticized President Trump and the MAGA movement.

Shortly after the president's "liberation day" speech, Richard Hanania published a essay explaining why he believed he was mistaken in voting for Trump.

Richard Hanania told The New York Times that "the resistance libs were mostly right about" Trump.

In 2023, the HuffPost analyzed digital records believed to establish that Hanania was the true identity of a poster, "Richard Hoste", who had written articles for multiple far-right publications between 2008 and the early 2010s, including AltRight.

Under the pseudonym, Richard Hanania argued for eugenics, including the forcible sterilization of everyone with an IQ below 90.

Richard Hanania denounced "race-mixing" and said that white nationalism "is the only hope".

Richard Hanania opposed immigration to the United States, saying that "the IQ and genetic differences between them and native Europeans are real, and assimilation is impossible".

Richard Hanania cited a speech by neo-Nazi William Luther Pierce, who had used Haiti as an example to argue that black people are incapable of governing themselves.

Journalists and writers have cast doubt on whether Richard Hanania has disavowed racism.