Richard Hanania

American political scientist — president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) — author of The Origins of Woke — who writes on DEI, foreign policy, and political psychology with a willingness to engage heterodox positions — whose anonymous past writing under a pseudonym expressed views he has since partially distanced himself from.

Creates the most rigorous social science account of how DEI became institutionalized — The Origins of Woke's argument (that DEI spread through a combination of civil rights law, EEOC enforcement, and corporate risk aversion rather than through genuine ideological conversion) is the most convincing structural explanation for the phenomenon.