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Quico Toro on Charlatans
Yascha Mounk and Quico Toro explore why we fall for them—and how to protect ourselves.
Quico Toro is a contributing editor at Persuasion, the Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute,…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Bret Stephens on Why the Democrats Are Despairing
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Bret Stephens is an opinion columnist for The New York Times and the founder and editor-in- chief of SAPIR, a new quar…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago
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 of the U.S. government shutdown, and the extent to…
Published on 1 month ago
Oren Harman on the Magic of Metamorphosis
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Oren Harman is a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and teaches at the Graduate Program in Science Techno…
Published on 1 month ago
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 book is Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to…
Published on 1 month ago
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 Biden vs Donald Trump, how to protect free speech, an…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Quentin Skinner on Liberty
Yascha Mounk and Quentin Skinner discuss whether the liberal conception of freedom is overly narrow.
Quentin Skinner is the Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
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 Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and t…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
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 mechanisms of deep generative networks in both Natura…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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 author of Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Brea…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago