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Rutger Bregman on How to Live a Moral Life
Rutger Bregman is an historian and author. He is the co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition, a new initiative to mobilize talented professionals…
1 year ago
Kevin Mitchell on Free Will
Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He studies the interplay between genes, brains, and min…
1 year, 1 month ago
Claire Lehmann on The Psychology Behind Wokeness
Claire Lehmann is an Australian publisher and journalist who founded the online magazine Quillette in 2015. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Quillett…
1 year, 1 month ago
Sarah Longwell on What Voters Really Think
Yascha Mounk and Sarah Longwell also discuss who—if anyone—can save the Democrats. Sarah Longwell is the publisher of The Bulwark, which she helped f…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ivan Krastev on American Decline
Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vien…
1 year, 1 month ago
Larry Summers on Harvard’s Showdown With Trump
Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers also discuss the administration’s tariffs. Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and Pres…
1 year, 1 month ago
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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 months ago