Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Experts

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Released

February 24, 2022

Duration

1h 2m

Channel

Dwarkesh Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Richard Hanania is the President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology and the author of Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy. Podcast website + Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/richard-hanania Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3ea468G Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3KAb3fg Follow me on Twitter to be notified of future content: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Follow Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RichardHanania Buy the book: https://amzn.to/3wL2AQN Read Richard's Substack: https://richardhanania.substack.com/ Timestamps: 0:00:00 Intro 0:04:35 Did war prevent sclerosis? 0:06:05 China vs America's grand strategy 0:10:00 Does the president have more power over foreign policy? 0:11:30 How to deter bad actors? 0:15:39 Do some countries have a coherent foreign policy? 0:16:55 Why does self-interest matter in foreign but not domestic policy? 0:21:05 Should we limit money in politics? 0:23:47 Should we credit expertise for nuclear detante and global prosperity? 0:28:45 Have international alliances made us safer? 0:31:57 Why does academic bueracracy work in some fields? 0:36:26 Did academia suck even before diversity? 0:39:34 How do we get expertise in social sciences? 0:42:19 Why are things more liberal? 0:43:55 Why is big tech so liberal? 0:47:53 Authoritarian populism vs libertarianism 0:51:40 Can authoritarian governments increase fertility? 0:54:54 Will increasing fertility be dysgenic? 0:56:43 Will not having kids become cool? 0:59:22 Advice for libertarians?

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Richard Hanania

  guest

• Dwarkesh Patel

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring Richard Hanania and Dwarkesh Patel, Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Experts explores richard Hanania Dissects Foreign Policy Myths, Wokeness, and Falling Fertility Richard Hanania discusses his book arguing that U.S. foreign policy is better explained by public choice theory and interest-group politics than by any coherent grand strategy. He contrasts the supposed rational, unified “national interest” with messy, domestically driven incentives that produce sanctions, wars, and alliances that often lack consistency or effectiveness.

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