Richard Hanania and the Reasonable White Guy Voice

What is left to say about Richard Hanania? The short version is that Hanania, an “enlightened centrist” pundit, was recently exposed <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">by Christopher Mathias of the Huffington Post</a> as a former white supremacist who had been a guiding voice in the formation of the alt-right under the pseudonym Richard Hoste. The longer version is that Hanania isn’t a “former” anything, nor did the HuffPo piece “expose” much; it’s hard to argue that Hanania kept his racism a secret when he continues to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/opinion/richard-hanania-eugenics-billionaires.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">publish extremely racist things under his own name.</a> The scandal of Hanania is how far he got, and how many people enabled him. He was published by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He was boosted by <a href="https://read.substack.com/p/the-active-voice-richard-hanania#details" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie</a>. In the wake of his exposure, the usual round-up of genteelly anti-woke Substack bros — Freddie de Boer, Matthew Yglesias — have had to defend their association with him. <a href="https://judedoyle.medium.com/richard-hanania-and-the-reasonable-white-guy-voice-93751ce74b34">Learn More</a>