What people recommend, in their own words, with the receipt.
by Richard Hanania
3 people
Hanania is the world's best living essayist. Style and substance.
Bryan Caplan's own recommendation blurb for the newsletter Richard Hanania's Newsletter, on their Substack's recommendations page.
betonit.ai ↗·2024-10-18
Richard Hanania is one of the most original and provocative thinkers writing on politics, culture, and social science. You should definitely add him to your list.
Razib Khan's own recommendation blurb for the newsletter Richard Hanania's Newsletter, on their Substack's recommendations page.
razibkhan.com ↗·2024-03-12
Richard is one of the most interesting and infuriating writers of our generation, and one of the most intellectually honest people I’ve ever met.
Rob Henderson's own recommendation blurb for the newsletter Richard Hanania's Newsletter, on their Substack's recommendations page.
robkhenderson.com ↗·2022-04-10
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The small bar beside a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The bar shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Full and green is recent. It drains, and turns amber and then grey, as the post gets older.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The bar is empty after about:
A striped bar means the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no bar.