Richard Hanania
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The Epstein files are about to drop and it's going to be insane.
The Epstein files are about to drop and it's going to be insane.
The Epstein files are about to drop and it's going to be insane.
Then he started talking about it.
Then he started talking about it.
Then he started talking about it.
Yes, I can't lie to you and tell you that those weren't sincere beliefs. Some of the ways I phrased it was sometimes getting a rise out of people, but I can't deny that I did hold those views. This, I should note, was around 2010, 2011, so by the time it came out in the Huffington Post, it was about 12, 13 years later.
Yes, I can't lie to you and tell you that those weren't sincere beliefs. Some of the ways I phrased it was sometimes getting a rise out of people, but I can't deny that I did hold those views. This, I should note, was around 2010, 2011, so by the time it came out in the Huffington Post, it was about 12, 13 years later.
Yes, I can't lie to you and tell you that those weren't sincere beliefs. Some of the ways I phrased it was sometimes getting a rise out of people, but I can't deny that I did hold those views. This, I should note, was around 2010, 2011, so by the time it came out in the Huffington Post, it was about 12, 13 years later.
But yeah, I had some views that I now consider repugnant, and I was actually writing against before โ that August 2023 exposition in the Huffington Post. So yes, I can't deny that I did have views like that at the time.
But yeah, I had some views that I now consider repugnant, and I was actually writing against before โ that August 2023 exposition in the Huffington Post. So yes, I can't deny that I did have views like that at the time.
But yeah, I had some views that I now consider repugnant, and I was actually writing against before โ that August 2023 exposition in the Huffington Post. So yes, I can't deny that I did have views like that at the time.
I think I was just young and angry. I saw these ideas that you couldn't talk about certain things like male-female differences, the idea that America was a racist country, which I didn't believe at the time and I don't believe now, or at least racist enough to explain disparities between groups of people. I didn't like censorship. I didn't like a lot of the things that
I think I was just young and angry. I saw these ideas that you couldn't talk about certain things like male-female differences, the idea that America was a racist country, which I didn't believe at the time and I don't believe now, or at least racist enough to explain disparities between groups of people. I didn't like censorship. I didn't like a lot of the things that
I think I was just young and angry. I saw these ideas that you couldn't talk about certain things like male-female differences, the idea that America was a racist country, which I didn't believe at the time and I don't believe now, or at least racist enough to explain disparities between groups of people. I didn't like censorship. I didn't like a lot of the things that
Conservatives in later years would turn against DEI, which was kind of at an early stage right there. And so I was angry. I was looking for people who were angry like me. And I think it was probably a lot of personal things going on in my life. By about 2012, 2013, I had sort of grown out of it, which I think often happens.
Conservatives in later years would turn against DEI, which was kind of at an early stage right there. And so I was angry. I was looking for people who were angry like me. And I think it was probably a lot of personal things going on in my life. By about 2012, 2013, I had sort of grown out of it, which I think often happens.
Conservatives in later years would turn against DEI, which was kind of at an early stage right there. And so I was angry. I was looking for people who were angry like me. And I think it was probably a lot of personal things going on in my life. By about 2012, 2013, I had sort of grown out of it, which I think often happens.
Well, I would make a distinction between that and the earlier stuff. I mean, there's a long intellectual tradition of people not believing in And that kind of naive sort of form of direct democracy going back to the American founders to today, and even before the American founders going back to the ancient Greeks.
Well, I would make a distinction between that and the earlier stuff. I mean, there's a long intellectual tradition of people not believing in And that kind of naive sort of form of direct democracy going back to the American founders to today, and even before the American founders going back to the ancient Greeks.