Richard Hanania Takes on Cancel Culture in the Political Betting Community

Published: Oct. 21, 2023, 10:45 p.m.

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After listening to our recent episode about calls in the forecasting community to cancel him, Richard Hanania offered to appear on the show. Richard and Pratik Chougule discuss:

\\u2014 Cancel culture in the rationalist community
\\u2014 The conservative judiciary and how it could legalize prediction markets
\\u2014 The odds of Vivek Ramaswamy and Donald Trump to secure the GOP nomination
\\u2014 Balancing the incentives of being a forecaster and a pundit

3:25: Interview begins
4:14: Richard's new book The Origins of Woke\\xa0and his association with Vivek Ramaswamy
7:00: Richard responds to those in the forecasting community who want to cancel him
8:12: How cancel culture is changing
10:13: Manifest Conference
11:12: Market-based responses to cancel culture
14:27: GOP nominee odds
15:56: Ramaswamy's views on prediction markets
17:50: PredictIt lawsuit against the CFTC
20:31: Conservative legal movement
32:20: Reasons why election markets became partisan
33:01: Political implications of Trump's legal problems
34:55: Hanania responds to haters and calls for open-mindedness
36:11: Incentives for political gambling versus punditry
40:11: Pratik plugs\\xa0Origins of Woke

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