The Good Fight
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The Good Fight
"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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H.W. Brands on the Making of George Washington
Yascha Mounk and H.W. Brands discuss the first U.S. president’s life and legacy.
H. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in Hist...
James Traub on Why American Classrooms Are Failing Democracy
Yascha Mounk and James Traub examine how progressive teaching methods are producing citizens who can't think critically.
James Traub is a...
Marc Lipsitch on Playing Pandemic Roulette in the Lab
Yascha Mounk and Marc Lipsitch also discuss how worried we should be about Hantavirus and Ebola.
Marc Lipsitch is the Berberian Professor...
The Good Fight Club: The Vibe Shift That Wasn’t, White Identity Politics, and “When They Go Low, We Go Low”
Amanda Ripley, Jesse Singal, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Yascha Mounk explore Trump’s failed cultural revolution.
In this week’s epis...
Al Roth on Why People Should Be Free to Sell Their Kidneys
Yascha Mounk and Al Roth discuss what we miss when we separate economics from human emotion.
Alvin E. Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw P...
Timothy Garton Ash on Europe’s Political Fragmentation
Yascha Mounk and Timothy Garton Ash discuss how Britain’s shift toward populism reflects broader European trends.
Timothy Garton Ash is t...
Laurenz Guenther on the Representation Gap in Politics
Yascha Mounk and Laurenz Guenther discuss why ordinary voters and political elites disagree on immigration, crime, and social issues.
Lau...
Lant Pritchett on Why Foreign Aid Misses the Point
Yascha Mounk and Lant Pritchett discuss why development requires building state capability, not just charitable interventions.
Lant Pritc...
David Bromwich on Why Americans Have Lost Faith in Universities
Yascha Mounk and David Bromwich discuss grade inflation, political conformity, and the crisis of trust in higher education.
David Bromwic...
Luis Garicano on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Yascha Mounk and Luis Garicano discuss how AI will reshape labor markets, productivity, and economic growth.
Luis Garicano is Professor o...
Jacob Mchangama on the Global Free Speech Recession
Yascha Mounk and Jacob Mchangama discuss how democracies and dictatorships alike have turned against online speech freedom.
Jacob Mchanga...
Michael Shermer on Truth and Conspiracy
Yascha Mounk and Michael Shermer delve into the art of debunking dangerous ideas without silencing free speech.
Michael Shermer is the Fo...
Ivan Krastev on Why Even Dictators Can’t Escape Democracy
Yascha Mounk and Ivan Krastev also discuss the war in Iran—and what it means for Trump’s future.
Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Cent...
Andrés Velasco on Oil Shocks and Financial Crises
Yascha Mounk and Andrés Velasco discuss why the current energy crisis won’t repeat the 1970s—and what dangers lurk in today’s financial markets.
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Kathleen Stock on the Case Against Assisted Death
Yascha Mounk and Kathleen Stock discuss whether liberal arguments for medically assisted suicide fail to hold up under scrutiny.
Kathleen...
Ruy Teixeira on What the Liberal Patriot Closure Says About the Center Left
Yascha Mounk and Ruy Teixeira examine how the Democratic Party’s cultural evolution drove away working-class voters—and ask whether it may be too late...
Sebastian Mallaby on AI Safety and the Race for Superintelligence
Yascha Mounk and Sebastian Mallaby discuss why tech leaders both fear and accelerate dangerous AI development, and whether open-source models pose una...
David Autor on the Scars That Money Can’t Heal
Yascha Mounk and David Autor discuss how policy failures made trade disruption worse—and why we're still making the same mistakes.
David...
David Goodhart on Why the Educated Elite Lost Touch with Democracy
Yascha Mounk and David Goodhart explore how the domination of mobile, university-educated “anywheres” sparked the populist revolt.
David...
Shashank Joshi on Why the War in the Middle East Won’t End Anytime Soon
Yascha Mounk and Shashank Joshi examine whether the United States and Israel are achieving their strategic objectives in the Middle East.
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Ibram X. Kendi on Great Replacement Theory
Yascha Mounk and Ibram X. Kendi also discuss anti-racism, equity, and education.
Ibram X. Kendi is Professor of History and the founding...
Adrian Wooldridge on the Lost Genius of the Political Center
Yascha Mounk and Adrian Wooldridge explore how liberalism reinvented itself through past crises—and what that means for its survival today.
A Very Brief Interview with Klaus Schwab
Yascha Mounk and Klaus Schwab discuss truth, trust, and accountability—until he abruptly ended the interview.
In January, I received an e...
Dean Ball on Who Should Control AI
Yascha Mounk and Dean Ball examine how the fight over autonomous weapons and mass surveillance reveals the impossible choices facing American AI polic...
Francis Fukuyama on Trump’s War With Iran
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. His latest book is Liberalism and Its Discontents. He is also the auth...
Danielle Allen on Why Technocratic Liberalism Failed
Yascha Mounk and Danielle Allen discuss democratic backsliding.
Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard...
Janice Stein on When Being Rational Is Irrational
Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at th...
The Good Fight Club: Why Japan’s “Weirdo” Victory Matters, the Rise of Chinese Soft Power, and the End of Asian Stability
Yascha Mounk, Bethany Allen, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Chang Che examine how Asia is preparing for a more dangerous world.
In this week’s e...
Jacob Savage on the Costs of the Great Awokening
Jacob Savage is a writer and ticket scalper.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jacob Savage discuss whether the “Great Awoken...
Daniel Diermeier on Why Universities Are Their Own Worst Enemies
Yascha Mounk and Daniel Diermeier examine how elite institutions created the backlash that now threatens their future.
Daniel Diermeier i...
C. Thi Nguyen on Why Measuring Everything Ruins Everything
C. Thi Nguyen is a philosophy professor at the University of Utah. His latest book is The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game.
...
Jung Chang on A Personal History of China
Yascha Mounk and Jung Chang explore what individual narratives can tell us about China’s past and present.
Jung Chang is the author of Wi...
Ruud Koopmans on Immigration and Integration in Europe
Ruud Koopmans is Research Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of Sociology and Migration Research at Humboldt University Be...
Martin Wolf on Why Trump’s Economic Revolution Never Happened
Yascha Mounk and Martin Wolf also discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the economy—and humanity.
Martin Wolf is Associate Edi...
Atul Gawande on Medicine and Mortality
Yascha Mounk and Atul Gawande discuss how a simple system can improve patient outcomes.
Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and...
Gašper Beguš on Why Language Doesn’t Make Humans Special
Yascha Mounk and Gašper Beguš also talk about what whale communication and the recent progress on AI tell us about the human brain.
Gašpe...
Damon Linker on Why Trump 2.0 Is More Destructive Than Anyone Expected
Damon Linker writes the Substack newsletter “Notes from the Middleground.” He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Unive...
Ian Bassin on How to Save American Democracy from Trump
Yascha Mounk and Ian Bassin also report on what they got right—and wrong—over the past decade.
Ian Bassin is co-founder and Executive Dir...
Rebecca Goldstein on Why Humans Need to Matter
Yascha Mounk and Rebecca Goldstein debate whether our desperate need for significance is a flaw we should overcome—or an essential part of human digni...
Scott Anderson on Why Iran’s Real Revolution Might Be Coming
Yascha Mounk and Scott Anderson discuss how economic collapse has created the conditions for regime change—and what this could mean for the country.