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Coleman Hughes on the Legacy of Slavery
Editor’s Note: This podcast was produced as part of Persuasion’s partnership with the Civil Discourse @ MIT program, at which Coleman Hughes recently…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Emily Oster on What’s Gone Wrong with Modern Parenting
Yascha Mounk and Emily Oster also talk about what public health authorities fell short during the pandemic. In addition to being a Professor of Eco…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
John McWhorter on Pronouns
John H. McWhorter teaches linguistics, American studies, and music history at Columbia University. He is the host of the podcast Lexicon Valley and w…
1 year ago
Jason Furman on “Liberation Day”
Yascha Mounk and Jason Furman also discuss the flaws in Build Back Better. Jason Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy j…
1 year ago
Yascha Answers Your Questions #2
In this week’s conversation, Persuasion editor-in-chief Yascha Mounk was joined by listeners of The Good Fight for a “mailbag” episode, speaking abou…
1 year ago
Audrey Tang on “Misinformation”
Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador and served as Taiwan's first digital minister and the world’s first nonbinary cabinet minister. In this week…
1 year ago
Aaron Sibarium on Identity Politics under Joe Biden and Donald Trump
Aaron Sibarium is a staff writer at the Washington Free Beacon, where he covers higher education and institutional capture. In this week’s conversat…
1 year ago
Hamish McKenzie on How Substack is Transforming Public Discourse
Hamish McKenzie is co-founder of Substack, a platform for online publications including Persuasion and writing like Yascha’s weekly column. He is a w…
1 year ago
Jacob mchangama on free speech
Jacob Mchangama is the Founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech, a research professor at Vanderbilt University, and a Senior Fello…
1 year ago
Francis Fukuyama on Donald Trump at Home and Abroad
Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist, author, and the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies …
1 year ago