Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer: noticing the kakistocracy
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Razib Khan hosts a discussion with Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer on the themes of kakistocracy and modern identity politics.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning we have a double-feature with Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer . Hanania holds a law degree from the University of Chicago and a PhD in political science from UCLA, and was previously a research fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He founded the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) and writes the popular Substack newsletter Richard Hanania’s Newsletter , where he covers politics, foreign policy, and social science from a heterodox, broadly libertarian-leaning perspective; his book The Origins of Woke argued that civil rights law, rather than culture alone, drives modern identity politics. His latest book is Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster . Steve Sailer is an American journalist and blogger, born in 1958 in Los Angeles, who worked in market research before turning to full-time writing in the 1990s, contributing to National Review , The American Conservative , Taki’s Magazine , and the webzine VDARE , as well as his long-running personal blog . He is best known for coining the term “human…
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