Richard Hanania on Conrad's Nostromo, Latin American Crime, and Populism
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Enhanced with helpful links. Visit conversationswithler.com Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I am sitting here live in Arlington with With Richard Hanania, whose name I often cannot pronounce entirely correctly, Richard has a new book out.
called cacistocracy. Why populism ends in disaster? I'm happy to have blurbed that book. A lot of the book is about the stupidity of our current politics. But I decided I was rather sick of the stupidity of our current politics. So I said to Richard, why don't we talk about some other stupidities instead?
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