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Richard Hanania: Liberalism Might Just Be Closer to Human Nature

Jul 10, 2023

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Introduction

2min

Vivek Is Doing Well in the Polls

2min

The Future of Conservative Intellectual Thoughts

2min

The Rise and Fall of the Conservative Intellectuals

3min

The Politics of Affirmative Action

2min

The Rise of Class Based Affirmative Action

2min

The Dems' Role in the White Working Class

3min

The Problem With Professional Activists

2min

The Rise of Civil Rights Lawsuits

2min

10.

The Utilitarian Value of Trump

2min

11.

Trump Is a Shelling Point for the Right

2min

12.

Trump's Influence on the Republican Party

2min

13.

The Unifying Role of Trump in Unifying Liberalism

2min

14.

Sanders Voters Are Not Like Jill Stein Voters

2min

15.

The Democratic Coalition Can't Hold

3min

16.

The Unification of the Democratic Party

2min

17.

The Right Wing PsyOps and RFK Junior

2min

18.

The Disdain for Kennedy

2min

19.

The Unquestionable Credentials of Claire and Thomas in the Liberal Wing

2min

20.

The Rise of the Left Wing

2min

21.

The Importance of Birtherism in the 1990s

4min

22.

The Rise of the Average PhD in the United States

2min

23.

The Negative Effects of Affirmative Action on the Economy

2min

24.

The Supreme Court's Interpretation of the Bostock Decision

2min

25.

The Supreme Court's Decision on Affirmative Action

2min

26.

The Importance of Incentives in Civil Rights Law

2min

27.

The Trade-Off Theory of Harvard

3min

28.

The Pros and Cons of Universities

2min

29.

The Impact of Affirmative Action on the University Landscape

2min

30.

The Cost of Affirmative Action

2min

31.

The Cost of Universal School Choice

2min

32.

The University of Waterloo's Natural Experiment

3min

33.

The Importance of Political Change

3min

34.

The Right Wing's Anti-Euthanasia Argument

2min

35.

The Dissident Right and the Anti-Immigration Right

2min

36.

Libertarianism and the University System

2min

37.

The Steelman Case for Industrial Policy

2min

38.

The Rise of the Conservative Legal Society

3min

39.

The Left's Success in Politics

2min

40.

The Unifying Power of the Left

2min

41.

The Left's Vibes Are Important

2min

42.

The Role of Special Interest Groups in Political Constituencies

2min

43.

The Benefits of Liberalism

2min

44.

The Left's Denial of Human Nature

3min

45.

The Importance of Freedom

2min

46.

The Benefits of Openness to Outsiders

2min

47.

The Importance of Elasticity in Political Economy

2min

48.

The Paradox of Car Dealership Owners

2min

49.

The Importance of Working for the Right

3min

50.

The Importance of Political Economy in the Republican Party

3min

51.

How to Win a Political Battle Against Your Enemies

2min

52.

Open Philanthropy: A Strategy for Acceptance

2min

53.

The Rise and Fall of an Anatoly Carlin

2min

54.

The Efficient Market Hypothesis

2min

55.

The Rise and Fall of the Russian Elite

2min

56.

The Right Wing's Constituency for Capitalism

2min

57.

The Morality of the Culture War

2min

58.

The Rise of the Elites

2min

59.

The Replication Crisis and the Rise of Social Media

2min

60.

The Implications of Neoliberalism

2min

61.

The Effect of Reclinism on Conservative Donors

3min

62.

The Importance of Civil Rights Law in Reintegrating the Left

2min

63.

The Left's Influence on the Left

2min

64.

The Right's Hierarchy

3min

65.

The Pros and Cons of the Anti-Natalist Policy

3min

66.

The Importance of Social Security

3min

67.

The Opposite of Doomer

2min

68.

The Importance of Chaos in Culture

3min

Richard Hanania is the author of “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy” and the upcoming book “The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics”. He is also the author of an excellent newsletter.

Find Richard:

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania

https://www.amazon.com/Public-Choice-Theory-Illusion-Strategy-ebook/dp/B09L9Y2W7S

https://www.amazon.ca/Origins-Woke-Corporate-Identity-Politics-ebook/dp/B0BHWMJWW3

Mentioned in the episode:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/us/affirmative-action-university-of-california-davis.html

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618154/regime-change-by-patrick-j-deneen/

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691146256/the-rise-of-the-conservative-legal-movement

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