You notice that East Asians are fundamentally different from other peoples. I never see liberals talk about the East Asian package, except when they’re arguing with their fellow leftists and trying to debunk some misconceptions they hold, in effect making a conservative argument.

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from richardhanania.substack.com

French Anti-Wokeness as a Second Best Solution. A recent article on the subject in The Atlantic. The author finds France in a panic. He attends a panel in which the audience hisses at a black woman who says that knowledge can be derived from identity. He writes that he is “shaken” by the experience.

by Chipit to /s/WorldNews from richardhanania.substack.com

How Monogamy and Incest Taboos Made the West: Joseph Henrich’s "The WEIRDest People in the World". The book highlights how obsessed early Christian leaders were with preventing incest, and just how rare this concern has been historically.

by Chipit to /s/books from richardhanania.substack.com

The Upper Class Defines Itself as Morally and Aesthetically Superior. They are motivated to distinguish themselves from us they want to be as different from us as possible. Being opposed to illegal aliens indicates to them that we are extremely low status.

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from richardhanania.substack.com

Women's tears win. We can understand the decline of free speech as a kind of female pincer attack: women demand more suppression of offensive ideas at the bottom of institutions, and form a disproportionate share of the managers who hear their complaints at the top.

by Chipit to /s/censorship from richardhanania.substack.com

Thinking about Influence in DC. The secret behind-the-scenes stuff about how laws everyone hates get made. "Secret Congress means you don’t want to talk about it too much, because that increases the odds you’ll actually get things done."

by Chipit to /s/politics from richardhanania.substack.com

Russia as the "Great Satan" in the Liberal Imagination. In the 2012 election, when Romney called Russia “our greatest geopolitical foe,” Obama famously responded that the 1980s called and it wanted its foreign policy back.

by Chipit to /s/WorldNews from richardhanania.substack.com

Richard Hanania appears on Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar to discuss his new book, "Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy."

by Chipit to /s/books from richardhanania.substack.com

New Book: Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy. A framework to intelligent non-experts for thinking about American foreign policy.

by Chipit to /s/books from richardhanania.substack.com

The latest genetic research reveals a common p factor, where people who have one mental disorder are more likely to be prone to others. Understanding mental illness as a fundamental division between the right and left is consistent with self-reported data.

by Chipit to /s/science from richardhanania.substack.com

Much thinking about American military commitments abroad is based on faulty reasoning. The US incurs costs and takes serious risks for little gain, in part because American elites want to defend foreign countries, sometimes more than the nations themselves want the help. The highlights:

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from richardhanania.substack.com

US Foreign Policy as a "Big, Dumb Machine". They had no idea what they were doing when it came to building a democracy in Afghanistan, but did an excellent job manipulating the public, avoiding any consequences for its failures, and protecting their bureaucratic and financial interests.

by Chipit to /s/politics from richardhanania.substack.com

Tetlock and the Taliban. How a humiliating military loss proves that so much of our so-called "expertise" is fake. It’s as if Wernher von Braun had been given all the resources in the world to run a space program and had been beaten to the moon by an African witch doctor.

by Chipit to /s/politics from richardhanania.substack.com

Given the triumph of wokeness, what made working class Mexicans in California believe that they could use anti-black slurs? A feminized and neurotic elite is using the power of government to push its rules and norms onto a lower class with a different cognitive profile.

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from richardhanania.substack.com

Freedom House totally debunked

by Girondin to /s/debatealtright from richardhanania.substack.com