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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 aut…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
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 of a century…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Helen Lewis on The Genius Myth
Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic who writes about politics and culture. Her latest book, The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangero…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Lenore Skenazy on Rejecting Helicopter Parenting
Yascha Mounk and Lenore Skenazy discuss why kids should take risks. After letting her 9-year-old ride the New York City subway alone—and creating a …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Shashank Joshi on How Warfare is Changing
Shashank Joshi is Defence Editor at The Economist, where he writes on a wide range of national security, defence and intelligence issues. In this wee…
10 months ago
Mark Lynas on Nuclear War
Yascha Mounk and Mark Lynas on how to avoid armageddon. Mark Lynas is an author, campaigner and speaker. He is science advisor with the Climate Vulne…
10 months ago
David Leonhardt on Why the Left isn’t Reaching the Working Class
David Leonhardt is an editorial director for New York Times Opinion. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and David Leonhardt discuss why the le…
10 months, 1 week ago
Quico Toro on How to Save the Climate
Yascha Mounk and Quico Toro explore what’s holding environmentalists back. Quico Toro is Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, a …
10 months, 1 week ago
Steve Stewart-Williams on Nature vs Nurture
Steve Stewart-Williams is a professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, and author of The Ape That Understood the Universe (201…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Paul Krugman on Why International Trade is Good
Yascha Mounk and Paul Krugman also explore whether the Euro was a mistake. Paul Krugman is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate C…
10 months, 2 weeks ago