Richard Hanania
Political scientist and newsletter writer; founded the think tank CSPI.
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- Richard Hanania is an American political scientist and writer who founded the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology in 2020 and is its president.
- He wrote The Origins of Woke and Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy, and writes a newsletter on politics and foreign policy.
- In 2023 HuffPost reported that he had written under the pseudonym Richard Hoste for far-right publications between 2008 and the early 2010s; he has said he now finds those views repulsive.
- He has become critical of the second Trump administration.
Key facts
- Born
- 28 August 19851
- Founded
- Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (2020); president1
- Books
- Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy; The Origins of Woke (2023)2
- Education
- BA, University of Colorado Boulder (2009); JD, University of Chicago (2013); PhD in political science, UCLA (2018)1
- Before
- Research fellow at Columbia's Saltzman Institute; fellow at the University of Texas at Austin's Salem Center (2022)1
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