Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Nearly all talk of “jobs” drives me crazy. Politicians say we can’t accept port automation or self-driving cars because we need to protect jobs. Or we need fewer immigrants for the same reason. Or that one source of energy is better than another because it creates more jobs. In public opinion surveys, the idea of

My book Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster will be released on July 7. Please preorder here

Lately, I’ve had a nagging feeling that we’ve been looking at the fertility crisis in the wrong way. The collapse seems too precipitous, sudden, and universal to simply be the result of the shallow proximate causes that are usually invoked.

For those who haven’t been paying attention, here’s

I recently read an article by Nabeel Qureshi on what makes AI art bad. The whole time, I was responding “Yes, but…”

He would say great art does X, but AI does Y, which is why AI can’t produce great art. But how do we know we are not biased in our judgments? Maybe you just see stuff ...

In my forthcoming book, I look for ways to try to steelman the case for populism. One conclusion I come to is that, while populism is usually a terrible idea in developed states, it can make sense in poor nations where things are actually quite broken,...