Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania (born August 28, 1985) is an American political science researcher and right-wing political commentator. He is the founder and president of the think tank Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI).

He has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist and Quillette. He wrote The Origins of Woke and publishes his newsletter on Substack.

Between 2008 and the early 2010s, Hanania wrote for alt-right and white supremacist publications under the pseudonym Richard Hoste. He acknowledged and disavowed his writing under the pseudonym when it was reported in 2023. A number of journalists have said that Hanania continued to make racist statements under his own name.

Hanania was a contributor to Project 2025 regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. Since then, he has become critical of the second Trump administration and the MAGA movement.

Hanania's advocacy against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has been influential among Republican and conservative policy-makers in the United States, and Vox called him "the man whose tweets helped kill DEI."