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Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania (born August 28, 1985) is an American political scientist and right-wing online personality. He is the founder and president of the think tank Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI). He has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Economist. He wrote The Origins of Woke and publishes his newsletter on Substack.
Between 2008 and the early 2010s, Hanania wrote for alt-right and white supremacist publications under the pseudonym Richard Hoste. He acknowledged and disavowed his writing under the pseudonym when it was reported in 2023. Journalists have stated that Hanania continued to make racist statements under his own name.
Hanania was a contributor to Project 2025 regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. His advocacy against DEI has been influential among Republican and conservative policy-makers in the United States, and Vox called him "the man whose tweets helped kill DEI". He has since become critical of the second Trump administration and the MAGA movement.
Hanania grew up in Oak Lawn, Illinois. He is of Palestinian Christian and Jordanian descent. He attended Moraine Valley Community College and studied linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School, and a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
When he was 15 years old, he was sent to the residential treatment program Casa by the Sea, which operated as a center for troubled kids. He said the experience "completely changed the course of my life for the better".
Hanania was a research fellow at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies of Columbia University and a fellow at Defense Priorities as of 2020. In 2022 he became a fellow at the University of Texas at Austin's Salem Center for Public Policy, which had been launched in 2020 with funding from right-wing donors.
Hanania has written opinion pieces for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist and Quillette. In 2020 he founded the think tank the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI). As of summer 2023, he was the organization's president. Hanania writes a blog, which was received positively by figures such as the Mercatus economists Tyler Cowen and Bryan Caplan[independent source needed] and JD Vance, noted by Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie, and publicized by Tucker Carlson, who invited Hanania on his show twice. Hanania also operates a podcast where he has interviewed various people, including the billionaire Marc Andreessen. In 2021, JD Vance described Hanania as a "friend" and a "really interesting thinker".
Hanania has been linked to the New Right. He 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 a 2023 essay, Hanania wrote that the only way to reduce crime is "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." The essay caught the attention of Elon Musk, who called it "interesting".
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Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania (born August 28, 1985) is an American political scientist and right-wing online personality. He is the founder and president of the think tank Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI). He has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Economist. He wrote The Origins of Woke and publishes his newsletter on Substack.
Between 2008 and the early 2010s, Hanania wrote for alt-right and white supremacist publications under the pseudonym Richard Hoste. He acknowledged and disavowed his writing under the pseudonym when it was reported in 2023. Journalists have stated that Hanania continued to make racist statements under his own name.
Hanania was a contributor to Project 2025 regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. His advocacy against DEI has been influential among Republican and conservative policy-makers in the United States, and Vox called him "the man whose tweets helped kill DEI". He has since become critical of the second Trump administration and the MAGA movement.
Hanania grew up in Oak Lawn, Illinois. He is of Palestinian Christian and Jordanian descent. He attended Moraine Valley Community College and studied linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School, and a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
When he was 15 years old, he was sent to the residential treatment program Casa by the Sea, which operated as a center for troubled kids. He said the experience "completely changed the course of my life for the better".
Hanania was a research fellow at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies of Columbia University and a fellow at Defense Priorities as of 2020. In 2022 he became a fellow at the University of Texas at Austin's Salem Center for Public Policy, which had been launched in 2020 with funding from right-wing donors.
Hanania has written opinion pieces for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist and Quillette. In 2020 he founded the think tank the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI). As of summer 2023, he was the organization's president. Hanania writes a blog, which was received positively by figures such as the Mercatus economists Tyler Cowen and Bryan Caplan[independent source needed] and JD Vance, noted by Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie, and publicized by Tucker Carlson, who invited Hanania on his show twice. Hanania also operates a podcast where he has interviewed various people, including the billionaire Marc Andreessen. In 2021, JD Vance described Hanania as a "friend" and a "really interesting thinker".
Hanania has been linked to the New Right. He 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 a 2023 essay, Hanania wrote that the only way to reduce crime is "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." The essay caught the attention of Elon Musk, who called it "interesting".