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Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths
Abigail Marsh is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Georgetown University. In this week’s …
6 months ago
Sven Beckert on How Capitalism Made the Modern World
Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. His most recent book is Capitalism: A Global History. In this week’s conversat…
6 months, 1 week ago
Dan Wang on China and the United States
Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and author of Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. In this week’s conversa…
6 months, 1 week ago
Nate Soares on Why AI Could Kill Us All
Nate Soares is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author, with Eliezer Yudkowsky, of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies:…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Good Fight Club: A Warm Welcome for MBS, the Future of MAGA, and Democrat Infighting
Edward Luce, Russell Muirhead, Lauren Harper Pope, and Yascha Mounk on this week’s news. In this week’s conversation, Ed Luce, Russ Muirhead, Lauren …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
James Loxton on Democracies and Dictators
James Loxton is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introductio…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
William MacAskill on Effective Altruism
Yascha Mounk and William MacAskill also discuss artificial intelligence. William MacAskill is a moral philosopher and cofounder of the effective altr…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Shadi Hamid on Why We Need American Power
Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Hamid’s n…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times
Yascha Mounk and George Packer discuss autocracy in literature and real life. George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlant…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
The Good Fight Club: Mayor Mamdani, the Crackup at Heritage, and the Death of Dick Cheney
In this conversation, Sam Kahn, Mike Pesca, Christine Rosen, and Yascha Mounk discuss what the election results mean for the direction of the Democra…
7 months ago