Richard Hanania
President, @CSPICenterOrg. Former @UTAustin, @ColumbiaSIPA. If you like the tweets, subscribe at https://t.co/32YL6Mtg2D for the more thought out versions
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In America, young people are economically...doing fine. Higher incomes than previous generations, income growing faster than any other group, low unemployment. How much have our b...
In late 2021, Hamas held a conference on what they would do after conquering Israel. They discussed water, sewage, currency, and making a directory of property to confiscate. They...
Conservatism has a low human capital problem. Most smart people are leftists, particularly in the influential professions that are High Status, Low Pay (HSLP). Does that mean cons...
There was cultural tension when Napoleon conquered Egypt. The Egyptians were angry that French women behaved so freely and were a bad influence on local women. Also, the Egyptian...
Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us is on how westerners exported our ideas about mental illness across the world. Western psychiatry treats mental illness like physical illness, univers...
Whatever happened to American governance? The US used to pride itself on merit-based selection in federal hiring. Government wasn't always seen as the incompetent monstrosity it is...
New York City just released a report titled "Crime and Enforcement Activity in New York City" for 2022. It tracks the identities of victims, suspects, and arrestees. Here are some...
From 1936-1939, the federal government interviewed 2,300 ex-slaves in 17 states. 2/3 were over 80. By 1936, it had been 71 years since emancipation, so most had been young when th...
This New Yorker profile of Elon Musk is supposed to present him as some kind of supervillain. Read closely, and you'll see one example after another of how the regulatory state hin...
People know about affirmative action in universities, medicine, etc, but what about in government? What does it mean when constituencies are more worried about their politicians l...
Why care about merit? What harm is there in affirmative action programs that reward the less qualified? Here's the story of the Martin Luther King Jr/Drew Medical Center (King/Dre...
"The country once known for having the worldβs highest murder rate now has the worldβs highest incarceration rate." Homicide down 92% 90% approval 44% decline migration to US E...