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Astral Flight Simulation PodcastJosh Neal on Intolerant InterpretationsJosh and I discuss his new book, Intolerant Interpretations, in what I hope to be several episodes on the ideas therein.Listen to Josh and I in our first episode on his essay Richard Hanania is Wrong About Conspiracy Theories, in which he discusses Hofstader and Popper, which is a very good supplement to Intolerant Interpretations. If you like this essay, buy the book! (side note: the Greek whose name I forgot in the takeover of Athens by Philip of Macedon was Isocrates)Buy the book now from Antelope Hill!2025-03-181h 47
CSPI PodcastDo We Need a More Assertive Congress?Philip Wallach (follow on X) is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of the book Why Congress, which he joins Richard Hanania to discuss. In this conversation, Hanania and Wallach review the historical role of Congress in American politics, focusing on key events from the FDR administration to the present. Wallach explains the important role Congress played in making sure that Roosevelt did not take the country too far down the path of economic statism, a history that Hanania points out is in tension with some of the ideas of Curtis Yarvin. 2025-03-131h 01
Razib Khan's Unsupervised LearningRichard Hanania: markets in every predictionHow do we know when to trust the experts? On January 23rd, 2020, Vox published a piece titled The evidence on travel bans for diseases like coronavirus is clear: They don’t work. Journalists are largely limited to reporting what experts tell them, and in this case, it seems Vox's experts misled them. By December 2020 The New York Times could reflect that “interviews with more than two dozen experts show the policy of unobstructed travel was never based on hard science. It was a political decision, recast as health advice, which emerged after a plague outbreak in India in the 1990s.” The cor...2022-09-291h 00