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"The Good Fight," the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can beat authoritarian populism.Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone.Email: goodfightpod@...
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The Good Fight Club: Gaza Ceasefire, U.S. Government Shutdown, and America’s Slouch Towards Autocracy
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Garry Kasparov, Russ Muirhead, and Quico Toro discuss the ceasefire in Gaza, the impact o...
Oren Harman on the Magic of Metamorphosis
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Oren Harman is a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem I...
David French on The Mess We’re In
Yascha Mounk and David French have a therapy session about politics.
David French is a columnist for The New York Times. His most recent...
The Good Fight Club: Who’s a Hypocrite About Free Speech?
In this episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Renée DiResta, Jacob Mchangama, and Jonathan Rauch discuss threats to free speech under Joe Bide...
Quentin Skinner on Liberty
Yascha Mounk and Quentin Skinner discuss whether the liberal conception of freedom is overly narrow.
Quentin Skinner is the Emeritus Prof...
Justin Marozzi on Slavery in the Islamic World
Justin Marozzi is a historian and journalist who has spent most of his professional life living and working in the Muslim world. His latest book is Ca...
David Bau on How Artificial Intelligence Works
David Bau is Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and Director of the National Deep Inference Fabric, researching the emergent internal mech...
Katie Herzog on Drinking Your Way Sober
Yascha Mounk and Katie Herzog discuss how to treat alcoholism.
Katie Herzog is the co-host of the podcast Blocked and Reported and the au...
The Good Fight Club: Hounding Political Opponents, Misinformation, and Autism
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Sabina Ćudić, and Dan Williams discuss Donald Trump’s firing of a federal prosecutor and...
Randi Weingarten on the State of America’s Public Schools
Yascha Mounk and Randi Weingarten also discuss whether teachers unions are to blame for prolonged school closures during the pandemic.
Ra...
The Good Fight Club: Populism in the UK, Threats to Free Speech, and the Future of the Middle East
A live recording of The Good Fight Club in London!
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk is joined by Fraser Nelson...
Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Builds and Weakens Societies
Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finali...
Damon Linker on The Spiral of Violence in America
Yascha Mounk and Damon Linker discuss the fallout from the assassination of Charlie Kirk—and what happens next.
Damon Linker is a senior...
David Brooks on… Yascha Mounk
David Brooks interviews Yascha Mounk to mark the paperback edition of The Identity Trap.
Yascha Mounk is the founder and editor-in-chief...
The Good Fight Club: Russian Drones in Poland, Low Literacy in Schools, and Can Anyone Rein in Trump?
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Ivan Krastev, Amanda Ripley, and Mike Pesca discuss what the Russian drones shot down in...
Tom Ginsburg on Whether America Should Adopt a New Constitution
Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director of the Malyi...
Daron Acemoglu on How States Succeed—And Why Many Don’t
Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include (...
The Good Fight Club: The “Trump Is Dead” Conspiracy, the Big Summit Between Xi, Putin and Modi, and Firings at the CDC
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Mona Charen, and Russell Muirhead explore why the “Trump is dead” consp...
Cass Sunstein on Defending Liberalism
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. His latest book is On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom.
Tyler Cowen on AI (Rerun)
Yascha Mounk and Tyler Cowen also discuss AI and the state of the world economy.
Tyler Cowen is an American economist, colu...
Musa Al-Gharbi on Why We Have Never Been Woke (Rerun)
Yascha Mounk and Musa Al-Gharbi discuss why so many members of elite groups like to pretend they’re oppressed.
Musa al-Ghar...
Why Do We Always Think We're Right? (Rerun)
What transforms reasonable people into an angry mob? Why are we so eager to dismiss those who disagree with us as inherently evil? These are questions...
Arlie Hochschild on Trump Voters, Old and New (Rerun)
Arlie Hochschild is an author and professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Stolen Pride: Loss, Sham...
The Good Fight Club: Trump's Firings, Reinventing Liberalism, and the Rise of AI
In this week’s conversation, recorded live in D.C. at the “Liberalism for the 21st Century” conference, Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Steven Pinker,...
David Enoch on Certainty and Compromise
We’re delighted to feature this conversation as part of our new series on Liberal Virtues and Values.
That liberalism is under threat is...
Christine Rosen on the Harms of the Digital Age
Yascha Mounk and Christine Rosen discuss the societal consequences of always being online.
Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the Amer...
Miles Taylor on Resisting Donald Trump
Miles Taylor is a national security expert. Based in Washington, D.C., he is editor of the recently launched newsletter Treason on Substack. Taylor pr...
Thomas Chatterton Williams on the Age of False Certainty
Yascha Mounk and Thomas Chatterton Williams explore what the summer of 2020 showed about America.
Thomas Chatterton Williams is a staff w...
Jesse Singal on Crises in Politics and Social Science
Jesse Singal is cohost of the podcast Blocked and Reported, author of the newsletter Singal-Minded, and a contributing writer at The Dispatch. His fir...
The Good Fight Club: Epstein, Columbia, Ukraine, Fed Independence
This week, Yascha Mounk is joined by Mona Charen, Francis Fukuyama, and Ivan Krastev to discuss how the latest revelations about Epstein will affect D...
Isaac Saul on Dialogue and Disagreement
Isaac Saul is a politics reporter and the founder of Tangle, an independent, nonpartisan news outlet.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha...
Dan Williams on Misinformation
Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams discuss fake news.
Daniel Williams is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He...
Steven Teles on Abundance
Steven Teles is a professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the co-author of a number of books, including The Captured Economy...
Alex Thompson on the Decline of Joe Biden
Yascha Mounk and Alex Thompson discuss who knew what—and when.
Alex Thompson is a national political correspondent for Axios and the co-a...
Martin Wolf on the Coming Fall of the U.S. Economy
Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk...
Dean Spears & Michael Geruso on Why We Need More People
Dean Spears and Michael Geruso are economists, demographers, and associate professors at the University of Texas at Austin. Their book After the Spike...
Luke Tryl on Why Britain Is Miserable
Luke Tryl is the Executive Director of More in Common UK, where he leads the organization’s work on public opinion.
In this week’s conver...
Irshad Manji on Understanding Each Other in Turbulent Times
Yascha Mounk and Irshad Manji also discuss how to have dialogue with ideological opponents.
Irshad Manji is the founder of Moral Courage...
Francis Fukuyama on War in the Middle East
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. His latest book is Liberalism and Its Discontents. He is also the auth...
Peter Hessler on China
Yascha Mounk and Peter Hessler describe how China has changed over the last 30 years–and where it might go next.
For more than a quarter...