Intellectual Dark Web media star wrote white supremacist things under a pseudonym, just like he does under his own name

Yet another one, this time a guy with a teaching gig at the real Austin as well as the fake Bari Weiss one:

A prominent conservative writer, lionized by Silicon Valley billionaires and a U.S. senator, used a pen name for years to write for white supremacist publications and was a formative voice during the rise of the racist “alt-right,” according to a new HuffPost investigation.

Richard Hanania, a visiting scholar at the University of Texas, used the pen name “Richard Hoste” in the early 2010s to write articles where he identified himself as a “race realist.” He expressed support for eugenics and the forced sterilization of “low IQ” people, who he argued were most often Black. He opposed “miscegenation” and “race-mixing.” And once, while arguing that Black people cannot govern themselves, he cited the neo-Nazi author of “The Turner Diaries,” the infamous novel that celebrates a future race war.

A decade later, writing under his real name, Hanania has ensconced himself in the national mainstream media, writing op-eds in the country’s biggest papers, bending the ears of some of the world’s wealthiest men and lecturing at prestigious universities, all while keeping his past white supremacist writings under wraps.

HuffPost connected Hanania to his “Richard Hoste” persona by analyzing leaked data from an online comment-hosting service that showed him using three of his email addresses to create usernames on white supremacist sites. A racist blog maintained by Hoste was also registered to an address in Hanania’s hometown. And HuffPost found biographical information shared by Hoste that aligned with Hanania’s own life.

Hanania did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story, made via phone, email and direct messages on social media.

The 37-year-old has been published by The New York Times and The Washington Post. He delivered a lecture to the Yale Federalist Society and was interviewed by the Harvard College Economics Review. He appeared twice on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News’ former prime-time juggernaut. He was a recent guest on a podcast hosted by the CEO of Substack, the $650 million publishing platform where Hanania has nearly 20,000 subscribers.

Another reminder that the standards for right-wing “intellectuals” are essentially non-existent. You can be an open racist and know nothing about anything and still be a so respectable, so delectable media and Silicon Valley darling with mainstream cred.

anyway i’m sure mr. “the turner diaries is insightful actually” will remain a person in good standing with the “mainstream” right pic.twitter.com/8yYjyTlJlD— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 4, 2023

one thing @letsgomathias’ great piece makes clear is that the reason hanania is the darling of the silicon valley reactionary set is because they all share the same warmed-over slaveholder ideology— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 4, 2023