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The Hanania ShowHow to Get a Visit from the Secret ServiceThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comI just did a livestream with Nicholas Decker (X, Substack), a PhD student at George Mason University. I met Nick last year at Manifest, and encouraged him to write more, as I thought he had a lot of interesting ideas. I believe I might’ve also told him to not be afraid of being provocative. He apparently took that advice to heart! For the last few days, he’s become a major villain among MAGAs for his article “When Must W...2025-04-2014 min
Hardly Working with Brent OrrellBrad Wilcox on Marriage and Family StabilityThis week on Hardly Working, Brent Orrell talks with AEI Senior Fellow Brad Wilcox. Wilcox’s recent book Get Married: Why Americans Should Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization explores the importance of marriage in society. Brent and Wilcox discuss how marriage promotes healthy families and why declines in marriage rates are so alarming. They also touch on how marriage and family structure impact the workforce and explore the particular challenges facing young men, such as family instability and low workforce participation.Mentioned in this episodeRichard ReevesRaj Chetty...2024-06-2752 min
CSPI PodcastAdministrative Procedure and the Common Good | Nicholas Bagley & Richard HananiaNicholas Bagley is a professor of law at the University of Michigan, former Chief Legal Counsel to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and a former attorney in the US Department of Justice. He joins the podcast to talk about his article, “The Procedure Fetish,” in which he calls for liberals to embrace reforms to make federal government agencies less sclerotic and more capable of addressing social problems. Richard presents Bagley with questions surrounding issues such as why we should trust government agencies with more power, the role of cost-benefit analysis, the performance of the FDA during Covid-19, and civil service reform, incl...2023-02-271h 04