Richard Hanania Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Richard Hanania

“Professors Hanes Walton Jr. and Robert Smith conducted a poll…where 44 African-American political scientists and historians ranked presidents for their personal and institutional racism against their policies to counter racial subordination.” https://t.co/NVhCA3GgbA https://t.co/iqapHOd4Wi

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On Tyler's recommendation, reading Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism by Charles Clover. 🧵 of most interesting parts. How important is Dugin? He seems to predict a lot, down to the Donetsk flag and Russia taking the Black Sea shore in the current war. https://t.co/0FECSh1wR9

Richard Hanania

@KirkegaardEmil So in the book Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, Peter Wood looks through major newspapers and finds practically no mentions of benefits of diversity in higher education before the Bakke decision. Same with legal docs. It was invented by one judge in its PC context.

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Scott Alexander book review contest voting is up. Somebody submitted a review of my book, Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy. Vote for it if you like the review. https://t.co/xkWeF3ggi5

Richard Hanania

Universal pattern of affirmative action: promise is preferences are limited and temporary. In reality, they are permanent and expansive, ie preferential admissions turn into preferential grading and fake "studies" programs. From Sowell, Affirmative Action around the World https://t.co/uCO7sFTPuL

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Stalin's incredible annihilation ratio. The New York Times said it was as if twenty years after the American revolution, someone executed "Jefferson, Madison, John Adams, Hamilton, Jay and most of their associates” charging that "they conspired to hand over the US to George III" https://t.co/U2cQXlxLm9

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Steve: " there’s no way that Joe chemist..is going to compete with Joe activist who’s in the department of labor studies...because the other guy can spend a heck of a lot more time and energy beating you up in campus politics or actually attacking you and trying to get you fired" https://t.co/mJP6eYCjHP

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Already in 1970, the US eliminated algebra and arithmetic from tests for federal employees on the grounds of "racism." The idea that math is racist is at least half a century old and part of American law. From Nathan Glazer, Affirmative Discrimination. https://t.co/qDOX5vCBD1

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I’ve never read a Harry Potter book. If I did would I have a deeper understanding of the neurotic women who apparently run the country now? Are the books bad? Or is it just that it was once a Current Thing, so people into Current Things became huge fans?

Richard Hanania

Sports Illustrated: “Lia Thomas was the dominant force in women’s college swimming this season. The records she set may be broken one day, but her poise in the face of a debate over transgender athletes was a lasting statement for equality.” https://t.co/HMEsIzXw8f https://t.co/Ett5FBVRnM