Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania , also known as Richard Hoste, is an American white supremacist,Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym. Archived. eugenicist and misogynist who currently promotes a far-right technocratic elitist ideology termed Elite Human Capital with Anatoly Karlin.
Hanania as "Richard Hoste" used to post virulently racist and sexist comments on The Unz Review in 2009 and 2010.Richard Hoste at The Unz Review. He was formerly a columnist for Richard Spencer's AlternativeRight.com magazine and has authored articles for neo-Nazi and white nationalist websites including Counter-Currents, Occidental Observer and VDARE.CTRL-ALT-DELETE: The Origins and Ideology of the Alternative Right. politicalresearch.org. Archived 19 May 2023. In 2016, Encyclopedia of American Loons created an entry for Richard Hoste.#1751: Richard Hoste (November 24, 2016) Encyclopedia of American Loons. At that time, it was not widely known that Hoste was in fact Richard Hanania.
In recent years has written articles for right-wing and "Intellectual Dark Web" publications such as Quillette, The American Conservative, and The Wall Street Journal.https://quillette.com/author/richard-hanania/https://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/richard-hanania/https://www.siwps.org/richard-hanania-in-the-wall-street-journal/https://nationalconservatism.org/nt_author/hanania/ He currently blogs on Substackhttps://substack.com/@richardhanania and runs the think tank The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), which has been described as "right of center".https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-study-of-partisanship-and-ideology-cspi/
In August 2023, Hanania in a blog post and apologized for writing racist and misogynist comments online, now claiming he finds them "repulsive". His apology does not come across as very sincere, since in the same blog post he continued to defend some of his racist views such as HBD pseudoscience.https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-i-used-to-suck-and-hopefullyhttps://archive.is/VXxGJ Hanania has made racist tweets as recently as May-June 2023, including the tweet: "We need more policing, incarceration and surveillance of black people."Richard Hanania (May 14, 2023). "I don't have much hope that we'll solve crime in any meaningful way. It would require a revolution in our culture or form of government. We need more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people. Blacks won't appreciate it, whites don't have the stomach for it." Twitter, via archive.today.https://archive.is/kEVpVhttps://www.discourseblog.com/p/its-actually-really-easy-not-to-givehttps://theracket.news/p/anatomy-of-a-troll
Hanania has attracted criticism for controversial tweets he has made defending sexual assault and paedophilia.https://archive.ph/ZafeXhttps://archive.ph/unNtX Hanania's mind may be unstable as he claims to enjoy "huffing gas" after filling up his car in the morning. Spent like 40 seconds huffing gas this morning after filling up the car. Why is this so pleasurable? And why aren’t we making products that captures this feeling? by Richard Hanania (4:13 PM · May 29, 2024) Twitter (archived from 30 May 2024 14:45:30 UTC). As of 2025, Hanania is promoting an almost carnivore diet consisting of chicken, deli meat, shrimp and protein bars.https://archive.is/dmGv9
==Background==
Hanania was born in 1985.https://popularbio.com/richard-hanania/ He is of Palestinian Christian and Jordanian background and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He holds a degree in political science from the University of Colorado and a PhD in political science at UCLA. He was a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. He is currently the president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.https://www.cspicenter.com/about He lives in the Los Angeles area and has a daughter. 
===Edward Hanania, dog killer===
Richard Hanania's younger brother Edward,https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/edward-hanania_id_G-8868228619523144203 pleaded guilty in 2017 to animal cruelty charges. He threw two dogs off of a 5th floor parking garage, killing one and seriously injuring the other.https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/oak-lawn-man-who-threw-dogs-parking-tower-paroled-prisonhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4135729/twisted-sicko-throws-two-lost-poodles-off-a-five-storey-building-killing-one-and-shattering-the-others-leg-after-falsely-claiming-to-be-their-owner/
Similar to Richard, Edward held far-right and racist views. He died in 2022.https://archive.is/7bZ6s
==White supremacist activism and writing==
Hanania was using the name Richard Hoste and wrote many racist, anti-Semitic, sexist and white supremacist articles and comments including the repatriation of non-white immigrants from US, opposition to "race mixing" and forced sterilization of “low IQ” people. Some people already suspected Richard Hanania was Richard Hoste in September 2022 based on a similar writing style, interests, and similarity of the two names.https://manifold.markets/manifolduser/will-it-be-widely-accepted-that-ric The was later confirmed after Hanania's email addresses at the University of Colorado and Chicago were indisputably connected to Richard Hoste's account (and sockpuppets) on Disqus, additionally "HuffPost found biographical information shared by Hoste that aligned with Hanania’s own life."
Richard Hanania first began using the alias Richard Hoste at the end of 2008 and created a blog in May 2009.https://web.archive.org/web/20090528023257/http://hbdbooks.com/https://web.archive.org/web/20090627041111/http://hbdbooks.com/?page_id=2 Hanania under Hoste wrote articles for Richard Spencer's AlternativeRight.com and the white nationalist website VDARE.Richard Hoste. vdare.com. Archived 5 August 2023. He also wrote for the white nationalist webzine Occidental Observer,https://web.archive.org/web/20110911110001/http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/archives/Hoste-Archives.html, neo-Nazi site Counter-Currentshttps://archive.is/34vyx and paleoconservative Taki's Magazinehttps://www.takimag.com/contributor/richardhoste/165/ as well as The Unz Review and the explicitly white nationalist website "White America".
https://web.archive.org/web/20090629070422/http://whiteamerica.us/index.php/articles/articles/whiteness_studies_filling_the_void/ Hoste's last known article was published in October 2011, although Counter-Currents translated into German an earlier article he wrote in December 2011.https://counter-currents.com/author/rhoste/ 
Richard Hanania's Disqus account ("@RichardHoste") has dozens of racist comments he posted on white nationalist sites, for example:
In an article published on the website White America, Hanania opposes what he calls "racial egalitarianism" and supports a "pro-white movement":
He is staunchly anti-Semitic and believes in an international Jewish conspiracy involving "Jewish elite".https://archive.is/eiLoP
Hanania was a regular commentator on Steve Sailer's blog in which Hanania was criticized by other commentators for his racism against African Americans.commentcommentSearch "site:isteve.blogspot.com Richard Hoste" on Google.
Hanania's white supremacist articles such as "What’s Behind the Multicultural Freak Show" have been republished on Stormfront.https://archive.is/FmS88
====Alt-right====
In 2010, Hanania identified with the alt-right and wrote an article titled "Why an Alternative Right is Necessary."https://web.archive.org/web/20150202063813/https://radixjournal.com/altright-archive/altright-archive/main/the-magazine/why-an-alternative-right-is-necessary
Among Hanania's stated political goals was opposing non-white immigration (particularly from Mexico) and repealing anti-discrimination laws:
In the same article, Hanania reveals he holds hardline white nationalist views, including opposition to interracial relationships:
====White nationalism====
Hanania has been an outspoken supporter of white nationalism:
Hanania is a fan of the white nationalist David Duke and has encouraged his readers to support Duke as a "pro-white advocate".https://web.archive.org/web/20111216114058/http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Hoste-Ahmadinejad.html
====Support for far-right political parties====
In an article published in Occidental Observer, Hanania criticised the English Defence League for not being racist enough and instead praised the fascist British National Party, Nazi-sympathizer Jörg Haider's party Alliance for the Future of Austria and the Russian ultranationalist party:
====Westboro Baptist Church====
In the white supremacist The Occidental Quarterly journal Richard Hanania published a disturbing article defending Fred Phelps and the extreme homophobia of the Westboro Baptist Church:
Hanania's provocative article and open defence of hate-filled Phelps caused a minor schism in the alt-right with some white nationalists accusing him of being a "wignat" or agent provocateur.https://archive.is/Du40h
====HBD Books====
Hanania owned the blog HBD Books from 2009-2010 which was promoted on alternativeright.com.https://web.archive.org/web/20110124213549/http://www.alternativeright.com/authors/richard-hoste/
Hanania's blog posted HBD literature and had a section named "Whiteness Studies".https://web.archive.org/web/20100316093615/http://hbdbooks.com/category/whiteness-studies/
In a blog post titled "Why are Black People so Loud" Hanania wrote: "They [black people] have lower IQs and less inhibitions because they evolved in a less demanding environment."https://web.archive.org/web/20100315213123/http://hbdbooks.com/2010/01/why-are-black-people-so-loud/comment-page-2/#comment-64379
===Reinventing himself as a conservative===
By 2012, Hanania stopped using the name Richard Hoste and began writing articles for mainstream publications under his real name.https://www.theatlantic.com/author/richard-hanania/ He kept his white supremacist activism and affliation a secret. He came out in support for Donald Trump in 2015, asserting Trump should never apologize for his controversial and inflammatory comments.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/10/21/donald-trump-never-apologizes-for-his-controversial-remarks-heres-why-he-shouldnt/ Hanania by the late 2010s, up to 2021, had reinvented himself as an outspoken conservative and wrote multiple articles for American Conservative.https://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/richard-hanania/
===Fake contrarian===
In 2022, Hanania began rebranding himself as politically unorthodox and having delusions he is idiosyncratic:
This is despite the fact most his views (documented below) are far-right and racist and he is obviously still a white supremacist.
===Bronze Age Pervert===
Hanania follows anti-Semite Bronze Age Pervert on Twitter.Richard Hanania on Twitter. Archived.Bronze Age Pervert. Archived. In October 2023, Hanania wrote a positive review for Bronze Age Pervert's self-published book Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy.Building a Mythos for the Non-Christian Right Hanania fails to note that Bronze Age Pervert is an anti-Semite with a long internet history of posting racist and sexist comments.
==Views==
===Interracial crime===
Hanania has acquired a following by racists for his controversial views on interracial crime.Richard Hanania, Interracial Crime and Perspective. Archived from richardhanania.com, May 2023. He has been criticised for making "incendiary comments."Asher Price, Amid legislative pressure, conservative centers gain traction at UT. Axios Austin, 17 May 2023.Political "Writer" with Ties to Respectable Universities and Bylines at NBC, NYT, WaPo Calls for Essentially a Police State Against Black Americans. Discussion forums at resetera.com, 15 May 2023.Bring Our Neighbors Home on Twitter, 15 May 2023.
 
Hanania is a mutual follower on Twitter of the white nationalist Anatoly Karlin who is on record as describing black people as "pathologically criminalized" and BLM a "negrolatry religion".Richard Hanania's Twitter followers, undated screenshot archive. When this was pointed out in a comments section of his Substack in an article where he praises Karlin, he deleted all these comments.Comments to Towards an Enlightened Centrism. Archived from richardhanania.com, 22 April 2023.
A search of "black people" (or similar terms) on Hanania's Twitter account reveals the extent of his obsession with interracial crime but virtually only if the victim is white.Richard Hanania on Twitter, 18 May 2023.Richard Hanania on Twitter, 6 May 2023.Richard Hanania on Twitter, 13 May 2023.Richard Hanania on Twitter, 10 May 2023.
Hanania has praised Elon Musk for engaging in discussion on his interracial crime threads.Richard Hanania on Twitter, 6 May 2023.
He promotes conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated claims, liberals are misleading on interracial crime statistics:
===On veganism===
In 2023, Hanania made a tweet promoting veganism which confused some of his anti-vegan followers:
However, he is in fact a massive meat and dairy eater:
In June 2023, Hanania authored an article claiming that vegans have won the ethical argument but he is not a vegan because he "like[s] the way animals taste" and wants to be "in a good physical condition" as a meat diet is the only diet that gives him an acceptable calorie-to-protein ratio.Richard Hanania, Eating Animals and the Virtues of Honesty. Archived from richardhanania.com, 19 July 2023.
Hanania's article has been criticized by vegans for containing contradictions and inaccuracies:
In December 2023, Hanania endorsed Anatoly Karlin's meat-based diet (which only excludes pork), writing that:
Since January 2025, Hanania has been promoting an almost carnivore diet consisting of chicken, deli meat, shrimp and protein bars.
===Opposition to lockdowns===
Hanania opposed lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic but supported vaccines.https://archive.is/f7fDG
His think tank CSPI in March 2021, published "The Case Against Lockdowns".https://cspicenter.org/blog/waronscience/the-case-against-lockdowns/
===Criticism of BLM===
Hanania opposes and has criticised Black Lives Matter.https://archive.is/uqSGHhttps://archive.is/Jc3Cz He has described BLM as a "religion".https://archive.is/BBHtm
Hanania has made thinly veiled racist remarks about George Floyd to fellow conservative Matt Walsh as recently as January 26, 2023.https://archive.is/oB7uw
===Transphobia===
Hanania is staunchly opposed to trans rights and has equated being transgender with a "front" for paedophilia (even though Hanania himself has defended it) after retweeting Andy Ngo:
He has described trans rights as a "religion"https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-gender-ideology-cant-survive and LGBT as "hysterical lunacy".https://archive.is/Hn1G0
On Twitter, Hanania pals around with his white nationalist friend Karlin to troll transexuals.https://archive.is/CUEzS
===Views on women===
Hanania opposes women being older than men in marriages (but not vice-versa). 
He has oddly criticised the fact Biden's granddaughter is three years older than her husband.https://archive.is/OWQKR
He identifies as an anti-feminist and has written a blog post linking female sports to feminism.https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-dishonest-trans-women-in-sports
===Immigration===
In the 2000s and early-2010s, Hanania supported a white ethno-state and held views which align with white nationalism. In one comment he wrote:
{{cquote|The ultimate goal should be to get all the post-1965 non-White migrants from Latin America to leave.|||Richard Hanania, writing on the neo-Nazi website Counter-Currents in 2010
He now however, claims to hold more moderate and ambivalent views on immigration: 
===Eugenics===
Richard Hanania supports eugenics.https://archive.is/kGiie
In 2011, Richard Hanania distastefully defended coercive eugenics such as sterilizing individuals with IQs under 90 in "Answering Objections to Eugenics":
 
He has been criticised by some Christians for tweeting he supports aborting foetuses with down syndrome.https://www.breakpoint.org/eugenics-is-alive-and-well/
In 2022, Hanania spoke with eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly on the topic of "Building Better People".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuFjc8gfY64
===Pro-natalism===
Hanania supports pro-natalism to increase fertility rates.https://archive.is/VMwG5 He has praised Viktor Orbán for his pro-natalist policies:
Hanania wrote a blog post titled "You Should Have Kids".https://www.richardhanania.com/p/you-should-have-kids
In Feburary 2024, Hanania wrote an article which mentioned he believed "more people turned out to be a good thing" and criticised the writings of Paul Ehrlich on human overpopulation:
===Incest===
Hanania has disturbing views on incest:
He appears to completely ignore statistics which reveal intrafamilial (incestual) sex in the vast majority of cases is between parents and underage victims, in other words child sexual abuse.https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/04/04/incest-the-taboo-subject/
Consensual incestual sex between adults is extremely rare.Wolf, Arthur P.; William H. Durham (2004). Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo: The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century. Stanford University Press. pp. 170-172.
===Holocaust denial===
Hanania has expressed views veering eerily close to straight-up Holocaust denial on the Neo-Nazi webshite and towel rag Counter-Currents:
It's hard to see how the Holocaust, a historical event, is a "religion" when a religion is a bundle package of ethical norms, spiritual beliefs and rituals, and explanations for why the world is the way it is. How does the Holocaust compare?
===Paedophilia apologism===
On 5 September 2023, Hanania defended teenage boys (as young as 13) have sex with older women:
On 7 October 2023, Hanania defended a 27 year old woman who sexually assaulted a 13 year old boy by stroking his genitals, exposing herself and offered him sex.
The bizarre and disturbing Twitter (X) conversation in response to a Daily Mail article titled:
Hanania wrote:
When questioned by someone "I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or what but this is a crime and it's called sexual assault", Hanania responded:
He has been widely criticised for this comment and has been described as "a man sick beyond belief".https://archive.is/unNtX
Hanania went on to defend the same child sex offence when asked "what if that victim was your son or daughter?".https://archive.ph/bMvll 
In November 2022, Hanania made another unpleasant tweet defending a 22 year old school teacher who had sex with a 16 year old student.https://archive.ph/RAgNy Although he deleted some of his follow up responses to this tweet, you can find tweets left up criticising him.https://archive.ph/JJmm9 Hanania holds other controversial views on paedophilia and is friends with Emil Kirkegaard who is an infamous activist for legalising child pornography.
On November 4 2023, Hanania wrote the following hypothetical on Twitter (X): 
Hanania's friend Anatoly Karlin wrote this tweet was "clearly earning a lot of elonbux."https://archive.ph/cKjbE
Hanania has remained a mutual follower of Karlin on Twitter despite Karlin posting he is sexually attracted to 14 year old girls.
====Age of consent====
Hanania supports lowering the age of consent. In a blog post written in January 2023 he discusses his bizarre and disturbing views why he supports sexual relationships between female adults and underage boys. He defends Demi Moore who passionately kissed a 15-year old school boy.https://www.richardhanania.com/p/hitler-demi-moore-and-other-pedophiles
===Child labor===
Hanania controversially supports child labor:
===Bestiality===
On November 9, 2023, Hanania described a pro-bestiality article written by a zoophiliac in the Journal of Controversial Ideas as "a brave position" and "Not my cup of tea but the marketplace of ideas needs this."https://archive.is/wwzYP After receiving a lot of criticism for this tweet, Hanania complained of a "pile on".https://archive.is/vKSzo In response to Hanania, Anatoly Karlin has supported humans having sex with non-human animals with hypothetical future AI technology, also writing "there's no legitimate liberal argument against [bestiality]" and claims "the animal consent problem" will one day be "solved".https://archive.is/ChOeOhttps://archive.is/sioZR
===Russell Brand===
In October 2023, Hanania was interviewed by Russell Brand.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F46or7q-o0Qhttps://www.richardhanania.com/p/appearance-on-the-russell-brand-podcast Hanania has defended Brand over allegations of 
===2023 Israel-Hamas War===
Originally a conspiratorial anti-Semite and anti-Zionist who was sympathetic to Holocaust denial while writing as "Richard Hoste" — Hanania has reinvented himself as a philo-Semite who supports the State of Israel in the https://www.richardhanania.com/p/israel-must-crush-palestinian-hopeshttps://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-ethical-case-for-a-siege-of-gaza and now describes himself as a friend of Jews.https://archive.is/bZBZYhttps://archive.is/1L1dw Some, however, doubt his conversion from anti-Semite to philo-Semite is genuine and point out Hanania has retained ties to neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers.
Hanania has also attracted criticism for his controversial comments on social media about the Israel-Hamas war. For instance, in tweets he has written that he literally supports "destroying" Gaza and relocating its remaining population, or depopulating Gaza through warfare.https://archive.is/HsmEjhttps://archive.is/HXX02https://archive.is/PYQX3https://archive.is/45jTI
==CPSI's tax reports==
The journalist has investigated the tax reports of Hanania's The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. He discovered in 2021, the CSPI received a $200,000 donation by Andrew Conru who is the creator of the website AdultFriendFinder which has been described as a "borderline porn hookup site".https://mashable.com/review/adult-friend-finder-review-dating-site The CPSI also received a $600,000 donation from an unidentified benefactor.https://theracket.news/p/who-is-richard-hananias-mysterioushttps://theracket.news/p/hanania-backers-include-sex-site
==Alleged recantation of racist and white nationalist views==
On August 6 2023, in response to mainstream media exposing him as a white supremacist who wrote articles under the name "Richard Hoste" on white nationalist and neo-Nazi sites (2008-2011), Hanania wrote a blog post admitting to being Hoste but suddenly claimed he was renouncing his racist past and is now "repulsed" by what he wrote on the internet:
The problem with taking Richard Hanania's apology seriously, is his Twitter account is chock full of racism as of this year. It has been pointed out for example, he made racist tweets as recent as May-June 2023.https://archive.is/ZatAfhttps://archive.is/UPAgKhttps://twitter.com/AuntyPithy/status/1688291363492622336https://twitter.com/ChiefTeef8/status/1688293612470112256 In his dubious blog post apology, Hanania also continued to support HBD pseudoscience — so the leopard hasn't changed his spots.
Hanania's claim his most extreme and offensive comments were written "in my early twenties" is misleading since he continued writing racist articles for white nationalist sites up to 2011.https://counter-currents.com/author/rhoste/ This means he would have been 26 when he stopping using the pseudonym Richard Hoste, not "early twenties". It seems Hanania's lying about his age has to do with him trying to excuse his neo-Nazi past as a youthful indiscretion. In his blog post, Hanania does not admit to being a white supremacist or neo-Nazi, instead he uses the euphemism "quasi-fascist". This is despite the fact some involved with the alt-right labeled him as a hardcore anti-Semite or neo-Nazi and his racism was too extreme for even them.https://archive.is/Du40h
The right-wing magazine Quillette has republished Hanania's dishonest blog post under the title "My Journey Out of Extremism."https://quillette.com/2023/08/07/my-journey-out-of-extremism/https://twitter.com/Quillette/status/1688371900882300928
Hanania's recent (as of 2023) racist, ableist and transphobic comments were compiled by the blogger :
===Reaction===
An editorial in San Antonio Express News published on August 9, 2023 asked the Salem Center for Policy at UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business — to cut its ties with Hanania for his white supremacist views. The article points out that Hanania is not a reformed racist but still holds racist beliefs. They quote a tweet he made as recently as May 2023 describing black people as "animals, whether they’re harassing people in subways or walking around in suits."https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/editorial/article/texas-white-supremacist-richard-hanania-18286953.php The Salam Center for Policy has since removed Hanania's "visiting scholar" page from its website.https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2023/08/10/hananias-name-gone-ut-austin-center-after-exposearchived webpage prior to deletion.
The neo-Nazi site Counter-Currents (where Hanania as Hoste used to write) have published an article disputing some of Hanania's alleged recantation. They note "Hanania has not repudiated his race-realist beliefs" and "His fundamental premises have remained the same over the years; only his conclusions have changed" (quoting some of his recent tweets) and question what his real motives actually are.https://archive.is/ny6vg Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents has criticised Hanania's alleged recantation as well.https://archive.is/smGLC Nevertheless, some involved with the far-right have been more charitable to Richard Hanania. Steve Sailer wrote an article defending him and encouraged others to buy his forthcoming book.https://www.unz.com/isteve/richard-hananias-the-origins-of-woke-civil-rights-law-corporate-america-and-the-triumph-of-identity-politics/ The white nationalist troll Anatoly Karlin has also supported Hanania and said he has pre-ordered a copy of his book.https://archive.is/tXLBE
Blogger Jack Crosbiehttps://www.discourseblog.com/p/anyone-defending-richard-hanania and journalist Jonathan Katzhttps://theracket.news/p/hananias-defense both doubt whether Hanania has abandoned his racist and white supremacist views. They instead convincingly argue (with evidence) that Hanania is still a racist despite reinventing himself as a "classical liberal." As Crosbie points out: "The only difference is that he now has mainstream appeal — and a new audience that is clearly receptive to his views."
Jeet Heer published an article "Why Does This Racist Keep Getting Silicon Valley Money?" in The Nation.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/richard-hanania-racism-silicon-valley/ Heer mentions "The bigotry Hanania voiced earlier hasn’t disappeared; indeed, it is still explicit (although more politely expressed) in his writing" and "There is a direct continuity between the racism Hanania articulated in his mid-20s and the views he holds now." Heer ultimately concludes "There’s zero evidence that Hanania has given up his core past beliefs." Despite this, a few have apparently been duped by Hanania's lies he is a reformed racist and former extremist including .https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan/status/1688256082366365696
Hanania joins an increasing number of far-right grifters who pretend to now be anti-racists and/or "counter-extremists" despite still being blatant racists. Notable examples include ex-BNP party official Jack Buckby, white nationalist Matthew Heimbach and neo-Nazi Jeff Schoep.https://politicalresearch.org/2022/04/01/not-so-reformedhttps://politicalresearch.org/2022/05/11/can-you-ever-trust-former-white-nationalist
Reviewing Richard Hanania's recent book The Origins of Woke, Tyler Austin Harper describes it as "Trojan horse for white supremacy.""An Intellectual and a Moral Failure". theatlantic.com. Billionaire Peter Thiel praised the book, writing in a blurb for it: "Hanania shows we need the sticks and stones of government violence to exorcize the diversity demon."Jeet Heer (August 11, 2023). "Why Does This Racist Keep Getting Silicon Valley Money?". The Nation.Zak Cheney-Rice (August 12, 2023). "The revealing case of the anti-woke crusader Richard Hanania." Intelligencer (New York). Which really just says it all.
===Continuing his ties to the far-right and Holocaust deniers===
Aside from writing articles for white nationalist sites as "Richard Hoste" (2008-2011) and his extensive racist internet history — Hanania as of today is a mutual follower of several far-right Twitter accounts including Emil Kirkegaard, Anatoly Karlin, Steve Sailer and Laura Loomer. He has further defended Karlin and Kirkegaard as people he enjoys reading in the article "Who Are the Enlightened Centrists?".https://www.richardhanania.com/p/towards-an-enlightened-centrism
In 2023, Hanania was listed as one of many people who made unspecified contributions to the anti-democratic Project 2025.Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans & Steven Groves (2023) The Heritage Foundation. ISBN 9780891951742. The contributors included other known racists (Corey Stewart, Michael Anton, Stephen Moore).Project 2025 decried as racist. Some contributors have trail of racist writings, activity by Will Carless (July 29, 2024) USA Today.
In May 2023, Hanania posted a (satirical?) article on his website claiming that he had attended a conservative meeting with holocaust denier Ron Unz.https://www.richardhanania.com/p/ron-unz-confronts-the-far-right
Hanania follows anti-Semite Bronze Age Pervert on Twitter and positively reviewed his book in October 2023.
In 2024, Hanania was a speaker on white nationalist Edward Dutton's The Jolly Heretic podcast.Should white people organise according to their race? | Richard Hanania. youtube.com.
==2025 activity==
Hanania currently promotes Elite Human Capital with Anatoly Karlin and claims be working on the first EHC publication, a book to be published in 2025. On his Substack, Hanania has released draft versions of chapter 1 and chapter 2 of his book.https://www.richardhanania.com/p/announcing-book-on-elite-human-capitalhttps://www.richardhanania.com/p/donald-trump-and-the-decivilizinghttps://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-origins-of-elite-human-capital
==See also==
* Alt-center
* Eyeslasho — similar fake contrarian.
* Anatoly Karlin — white nationalist troll who claims to now be an anti-racist.
==External links==
* Richard Hanania Newsletter
* Twitter
==Notes==
==References==
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Category:Racists
Category:Right-wing activists
Category:Transphobes
Category:White supremacists