Anna Khachiyan

About Anna Khachiyan

Anna Leonidovna Khachiyan is a Russian-American cultural critic, writer, internet personality, and co-host of the Red Scare Podcast, based out of New York City.

On March 29, 2018, Khachiyan started the cultural commentary podcast "Red Scare", with co-host, actress Dasha Nekrasova. The show has been associated with both the dirtbag left and the new right as well as the subculture surrounding Dimes Square, a micro-neighborhood between Chinatown and the Lower East Side neighborhoods of New York City. 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 and Michel Houellebecq.

In 2020, Khachiyan portrayed Ghislaine Maxwell's dopplegänger" in "The Scary of Sixty-First", an independent horror film directed by Nekrasova.

In a 2021 interview with the New York Times, Sydney Sweeney stated that her "mean girl" portrayal in White Lotus was inspired by Khachiyan and co-host Nekrasova.

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?" She argued alongside Louise Perry, facing Sarah Haider and Grimes.

Khachiyan is of Armenian Jewish and Russian decent. She is in a relationship with percussionist and visual artist Eli Keszler, with whom she has one child with.