> One time we invited Richard Hanania to a prediction market conference. There were five or six news articles about it, and I can’t remember whether any of them mentioned the word “prediction”. As far as our reputation was concerned, it had become the Richard Hanania Conference For Richard Hananias. You invent an amazing new form of forecasting, incubate multibillion dollar startups, accidentally get thousands of people addicted to sports gambling - but you invite one conservative!

This is weird framing.

It's like MacGregor saying "you fall in love with one curly haired blonde beauty" and looking for support for that position.

> Between 2008 and the early 2010s, Hanania wrote for alt-right and white supremacist publications under the pseudonym Richard Hoste.[5][6] He acknowledged writing under the pseudonym when it was reported in 2023

Of course, the author also has a hidden fondness for the same cause, so I guess it makes sense that he's try to sanewash it as just conservatism.