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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 Divi…
7 months, 4 weeks 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 Bid…
7 months, 4 weeks 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…
8 months 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 C…
8 months 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 mec…
8 months, 1 week 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 Drin…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Good Fight Club: Hounding Political Opponents, Misinformation, and Autism
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Sabina Ćudić, and Dan Williams discuss Donald Trump’s firing of a federal prosecutor and…
8 months, 1 week ago
Randi Weingarten on the State of America’s Public Schools
Yascha Mounk and Randi Weingarten also discuss whether teachers unions are to blame for prolonged school closures during the pandemic. Randi Weingart…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Good Fight Club: Populism in the UK, Threats to Free Speech, and the Future of the Middle East
A live recording of The Good Fight Club in London! In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk is joined by Fraser Nelson, Helen Joyc…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Builds and Weakens Societies
Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize final…
8 months, 2 weeks ago