Richard Hanania on Wokeness, Israel-Palestine, and the Mythos of the Modern Right

This week on Upstream, political scientist and writer Richard Hanania returns to the show. Erik and Richard discuss wokeness, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the mythos of the modern right, Richard's upcoming debate with Curtis Yarvin, and more. Upstream is sponsored by Shopify: shopify.com/torenberg for a $1/month trial period.
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LINKS
Richard's Substack: substack.com/@richardhanania
Tickets to Richard's debate with Curtis Yarvin: www.eventbrite.com/e/yarvin-v...
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Intro
(02:11) Wokeness, DEI, and the removal of university presidents
(06:24) How the Israel-Palestine conflict is affecting DEI
(08:02) American sentiment towards Israel-Palestine
(16:49) Sponsor | Shopify
(18:26) Richard's foreign policy perspective on Israel-Palestine
(22:42) Nietzschean Liberalism
(25:19) How much truth can people take?
(30:24) Technology as a spiritual north star
(32:19) Reactionary feminism
(38:14) Male status & birth rates
(41:29) How important is IQ?
(45:09) How to discuss difficult truths
(47:40) Richard's debate with Curtis Yarvin
(54:19) Understanding Effective Altruism
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Editor: Michelle Poreh
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[@zhuzhou]

The answer to the question about why women do better in school - it's because nearly everything in school caps the upper part of the range, but not the bottom. So the greater variance in boy's bad behavior is fully visible (crime, low scores, etc) but not the upper part (inventing new things, being years ahead of the curve, challenging authority/orthodoxy) and is rather actually punished.

[@Businedu]

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[@RobMardis]

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[@MitchellVasovski]

Richard Hoste is back on here lol what a joke.