Anna Khachiyan Explained

Anna Khachiyan
Native Name:Анна Хачиян
Native Name Lang:ru
Birth Name:Anna Leonidovna Khachiyan
Birth Date:23 August 1985
Birth Place:Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Notable Works:Red Scare (since 2018)
Father:Leonid Khachiyan

Anna Leonidovna Khachiyan (; born August 23, 1985)[1] [2] [3] is an American cultural critic,[4] [5] writer,[6] and co-host of the Red Scare podcast with Dasha Nekrasova, based out of New York City.[7] [8] She is the daughter of Soviet-American mathematician Leonid Khachiyan.

Early life

Khachiyan was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, on August 23, 1985.[2] [3] In 1990, she immigrated to the United States with her parents and was raised in New Jersey.[9] Her father is the Soviet mathematician and Rutgers University professor Leonid Khachiyan and her mother is Olga Pischikova Reynberg.[10] She is of Armenian, Russian and Ashkenazi Jewish descent.[11]

Khachiyan received the Patrick J. Quigley memorial scholarship from Rutgers University in 2006, studying economics and art history and graduating with honors.[12] She went on to pursue a master's degree in art history at New York University,[13] as well as a PhD in Soviet architecture, completing the former and dropping out of the latter.[9]

Before Red Scare, Khachiyan worked odd jobs as a restaurant hostess,[14] illustrator[15] and actress.[16]

Career

On March 29, 2018, Khachiyan started the cultural commentary podcast Red Scare, with co-host and actress Dasha Nekrasova. The show has been associated with both the dirtbag left[17] [18] [19] [20] and the new right[21] as well as the subculture surrounding Dimes Square.[22] [23] [24] [25] It covers current topics in American culture and politics in both a comedic and serious tone.

Khachiyan's commentary and critique of neoliberalism and feminism are heavily influenced by historian Christopher Lasch and social critic Camille Paglia. She has also been influenced by Mark Fisher[6] and Michel Houellebecq.

Khachiyan has been interviewed by Eric Weinstein and by Bret Easton Ellis on their respective podcasts.[26] She has also appeared on i24NEWS to discuss Russian-born convicted fraudster[27] [28] Anna Delvey,[29] and as a speaker as part of Art Toronto's PLATFORM Speak Series.[30]

In September 2023, Khachiyan was a panelist in a public debate co-sponsored by The Free Press and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), titled "Has the Sexual Revolution Failed?" [31] She argued alongside Louise Perry facing Sarah Haider and Grimes.

Personal life

Khachiyan is in a relationship with percussionist and visual artist Eli Keszler.[32] [33] On the February 13, 2021 episode of The Tim Dillon Show, Khachiyan announced she was eight months pregnant.[34] Her son was born on March 28, 2021.[35] Khachiyan suffers from adult-onset Still's disease, which she was diagnosed with after contracting COVID-19 in 2021.[36] She had previously questioned the efficacy of vaccines in the efforts to curb COVID-19, describing herself as becoming “an even more conservative Covid truther.”[37]

Filmography

YearFilm/SeriesRoleNotes
2007Why I Fired My Secretaryshort, screenplay
2014Facing the Same DirectionAlexshort
2020PVT Chat OWS Commentator
2021The Scary of Sixty-FirstGhislaine Maxwell doppelgänger[38]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Red Scare, Don't Care. Charlotte. Broomfield. The Face. April 17, 2019. April 6, 2020.
  2. 17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing the Mystical Feminine from the Ashes of 'The Feminine Mystique' . The Portal . Weinstein, Eric (host) . Eric Weinstein . December 20, 2019.
  3. Anna . Khachiyan . Anna Khachiyan . annakhachiyan . 1297600939432579072 . August 23, 2020 . Wow I share a birthday with the coolest, most doomed people . January 2, 2023 . https://archive.today/20230102012800/https://twitter.com/annakhachiyan/status/1297600939432579072 . January 2, 2023 . live.
  4. Khachiyan . Anna . Anna Khachiyan . Anna Khachiyan Shares Her Gut Reactions on Everything from Toxic Masculinity to 'Vanderpump Rules' . . December 26, 2018 . New York City, New York . October 17, 2022.
  5. Web site: Meet the anti-woke left . . Fraser . Myers . July 4, 2019.
  6. Art Won't Save Us. March 19, 2018. Anna. Khachiyan. Pepi. Mike. Open Space. 8, Heavy Machinery. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
  7. Web site: Red Scare Leans into Nothing. Malone. Noreen. October 25, 2018. The Cut. en-us. April 6, 2020.
  8. News: Arbuthnot . Leaf . Meet the 'ladies' of Red Scare, the most gleefully offensive podcast on the internet . . April 8, 2020 . February 7, 2020.
  9. Anna Khachiyan . The Dr. Drew Podcast . Pinsky, Drew (host) . Drew Pinsky . December 6, 2022.
  10. Web site: In Memoriam: Leonid Khachiyan . https://web.archive.org/web/20160911131608/http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/Khachiyan/ . dead . September 11, 2016 . Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Computer Science.
  11. Anna . Khachiyan . Anna Khachiyan . annakhachiyan . 1202044514359238657 . December 4, 2019 . I had such a shambolic, dysfunctional upbringing my parents didn't even bother to teach me chess — unheard of and frankly shameful for Russian family of Armenian and Ashkenazi origins lol! . January 2, 2023 . https://archive.today/20200817100617/https://twitter.com/annakhachiyan/status/1202044514359238657 . August 17, 2020 . live.
  12. Web site: Welcome to the Department of Art History Undergraduate Awards. Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art History.
  13. Web site: Anna Khachiyan New York University. nyu.academia.edu.
  14. Number Six. November 9, 2018. Anna. Khachiyan. etal. Hertling. Pati. Azimi. Negar. Deadlines and Divine Distractions.
  15. Web site: Untitled (An Oral History of D'Angelo). October 6, 2014. Dan. Buyanovsky. Vice.
  16. Cule . Maja . An interview with Maja Cule . atractivoquenobello . November 4, 2014 . Kevin Allen . https://web.archive.org/web/20160903184357/https://www.aqnb.com/2014/11/04/an-interview-with-maja-cule/ . September 3, 2016 . live.
  17. News: Bowles . Nellie . Nellie Bowles . February 29, 2020 . The Pied Pipers of the Dirtbag Left Want to Lead Everyone to Bernie Sanders . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331 . April 6, 2020.
  18. News: Marriott . James . December 10, 2019 . Red Scare, the politically incorrect podcast that's wooing liberal millennials . The Times . en-GB . 0140-0460 . April 6, 2020.
  19. Web site: Spies . Michelle . September 25, 2019 . I Made the Internet Vote to Determine the Worst Fan Base. Here's What I Learned. . Vulture . en-US.
  20. Web site: Martinez . Ignacio . June 26, 2019 . 'Praxis Girl' and how extremely online drama led to a Marxist meme . The Daily Dot . en-US.
  21. News: Michelle . Goldberg . Michelle Goldberg . April 25, 2022 . Opinion The Awful Advent of Reactionary Chic . en-US . . January 26, 2023 . 0362-4331.
  22. Web site: Dai . Serena . August 10, 2022 . Do You Need to Care About Dimes Square? Probably Not . . September 1, 2022.
  23. Web site: Meltzer . Marisa . July 25, 2022 . Dimes Square Gets the Hotel It Deserves . The New York Times . September 1, 2022.
  24. Freeman . Nate . June 13, 2022 . What Was Dimes Square? . August 28, 2022 . Vanity Fair . en-US.
  25. Web site: Yost . Julia . New York's Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church . The New York Times . August 9, 2022 . September 1, 2022.
  26. 8/16/19 - Anna Khachiyan . The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast . Ellis, Bret Easton (host) . Bret Easton Ellis . August 16, 2019 . December 24, 2020.
  27. News: Ransom . Jan . Palmer . Emily . April 25, 2019 . Fake Heiress Who Swindled N.Y.'s Elite Is Found Guilty . subscription . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331 . November 20, 2020 . November 15, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201115131559/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/nyregion/anna-delvey-sorokin-verdict.html . live.
  28. News: Pullman . Laura . 'Fake Heiress' Anna Delvey on her time in prison and what she'll do next . subscription . The Times . en-GB . June 3, 2021 . March 7, 2021 . March 7, 2021 . https://archive.today/20210307173830/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anna-sorokin-delvey-fake-heiress-interview-prison-q73smd9zj . live.
  29. Web site: Holmes . Helen . June 8, 2018 . Why Do We Love Grifters? Because We're Secretly Jealous of Them. . The New York Observer . en-US . live . https://archive.today/20180624155757/http://observer.com/2018/06/what-grifters-anna-delvey-kari-ferrell-david-hampton-say-about-us/ . June 24, 2018.
  30. Web site: Heather . Rosemary . October 23, 2018 . Why Trump is able to neutralize #Resistance art . . live . https://archive.today/20210819210217/https://nowtoronto.com/culture/art-and-design/anna-khachiyan-trump-resistance-art/ . August 19, 2021.
  31. Web site: FIRE sponsors debate with the Free Press: Has the Sexual Revolution Failed? | the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression . 31 July 2023 .
  32. 6 Feet Apart . Eli . Keszler . Eli Keszler . Anna . Khachiyan . Anna Khachiyan . April 14, 2020 . Elara FM.
  33. Web site: Platforming a Platformer of the Deplatformed . . Simon . van Zuylen-Wood . July 29, 2022 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230222173748/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/07/alex-jones-documentary-alex-lee-moyer.html . February 22, 2023.
  34. #239 - Anna Khachiyan . The Tim Dillon Show . Dillon, Tim (host) . Tim Dillon (comedian). February 14, 2021.
  35. Khachiyan . Anna . Anna Khachiyan . annakhachiyan . CNIhiqMDNHt . April 1, 2021 . My pup <3 . April 5, 2021 . https://www.instagram.com/p/CNIhiqMDNHt/ . https://archive.today/20230102010253/https://www.instagram.com/p/CNIhiqMDNHt/ . January 2, 2023 . live.
  36. Anna . Khachiyan . Anna Khachiyan . annakhachiyan . 1480196007887523843 . January 9, 2022 . Fwiw I was diagnosed with something called Adult Onset Still’s Disease. If you google Still’s + Covid-19 you can find studies reporting cases triggered by the vaccine as well as the virus. Either way how much of an unspeakable loser do you have to be to hornily gloat over this? . June 15, 2024 . https://archive.today/20240615063023/https://x.com/annakhachiyan/status/1480196007887523843 . June 15, 2024 . live.
  37. Web site: Rabkin . Eugene . Podcast Overload . The New York Times . January 7, 2023 . June 15, 2024.
  38. Web site: 'The Scary of Sixty-First' Review: An Unforgettable 'Eyes Wide Shut' Revision for the QAnon Age . . Christian . Blauvelt . March 2, 2021.

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