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Francis Fukuyama on Trump 47 | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist, author, and the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Among Fukuyama’s notable works are The End of History and the Last Man and The Origins of Political Order. His latest book is Liberalism and Its Discontents. He is also the author of the “Frankly Fukuyama” column, carried forward from American Purpose, at Persuasion.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama discuss how Trump’s 2024 victory repudiates the racial grievance theory of 2016; what a second Trump administration will mean for the rule of law at home and abroad; and the lessons the Democratic Party must learn from its defeat.
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Why Is This Race So Damn Close? | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Ruy Teixeira is the co-founder and politics editor of The Liberal Patriot, and the author, with John Judis, of The Emerging Democratic Majority and, most recently, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes. Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Levin is the author of A Time to Buil...
Charles Taylor on Identity and Modernity | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher and Professor Emeritus at McGill University. Taylor is the recipient of both the Kyoto and Templeton prizes, and is the author of major works including A Secular Age and Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. His most recent book is Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Cha...
Ruxandra Teslo on What Elites Really Believe | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Ruxandra Teslo is a PhD student in Genomics at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. She writes about science and culture at Ruxandra’s Substack. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss Rob Henderson’s concept of luxury beliefs, its key insights, and the misleading ways in which it’s often used; the academic study of “misinformation” and why we should be skeptical ...
Amanda Ripley on How to Survive Disaster | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Amanda Ripley is an American author and journalist. Her books include The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes and High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Amanda Ripley discuss the pitfalls common to many survival scenarios and the psychological tools most helpful in avoiding them; whether the strength of one’s community tie...
Musa Al-Gharbi on Why We Have Never Been Woke | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Yascha Mounk and Musa Al-Gharbi discuss why so many members of elite groups like to pretend they’re oppressed. Musa al-Gharbi is an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His most recent book is We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Musa Al-Gharbi discuss the tenden...
Alexandre Lefebvre on Liberalism as a Way of Life | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Alexandre Lefebvre is a professor of politics and philosophy at the University of Sydney. His books include Human Rights as a Way of Life and, most recently, Liberalism as a Way of Life. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Alexandre Lefebvre discuss the difference between political liberalism and liberalism as a comprehensive doctrine-or “way of life”; how we can uphold the core tenet...
Raj Vinnakota on How to Stop Campus from Boiling Over | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Raj Vinnakota is President of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, co-founder of the SEED Foundation, and co-chair of the Civics and Civic Engagement Taskforce for the United States Congress Semiquincentennial Commission. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Raj Vinnakota discuss the best strategies for building a campus environment conducive to genuine conversations and the free exc...
James C. Scott on The Perils of State Power | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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In one of his final extended interviews, which was recorded three years before his recent death, the late anthropologist James C. Scott and Yascha Mounk discuss the need to be vigilant about the ways in which states do violence to individuals and societies. James C. Scott was the Sterling professor of political science and anthropology at Yale University. Scott is the author of major works incl...
Timur Kuran on Why We Lie About Our Beliefs | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification and Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Timur Kuran discuss how the phenomenon of people falsifyin...
Douglas Vakoch on The Promise and Perils of Contacting Extraterrestrials | The Good Fight
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Douglas Vakoch is an American astrobiologist, extraterrestrial intelligence researcher, and the president of METI International, an organization devoted to transmitting messages to outer space. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Douglas Vakoch discuss the case for and against trying to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence; why we are yet to discover evidence of extraterrest...
How Elite Institutions View Social Change | Freddie deBoer for The Good Fight
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"The institutions that make up elite society have particular ways of confronting social problems, some which may be genuinely useful, but most of which are bent towards maintaining a particular status quo." Freddie deBoer talks about how elites can alter the implicit goals of social justice movements without any malice or misintent about the broader aims of those movements. Please do listen and...
Freddie deBoer on “Peak Woke” | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Freddie deBoer is a writer, academic, and critic. He writes the Freddie deBoer Substack, and is the author of books including the Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice and, most recently, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Freddie deBoer discuss whether "woke" ideas have, rather than receding, become in...
Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc. | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Senior Fellow of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Her books include Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe. Her latest book is Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Anne Applebaum discuss how dictators use the...
Matthew Yglesias on Kamala Harris | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Matthew Yglesias is a writer and journalist, co-founder of Vox, and founder of the Substack newsletter Slow Boring. His latest book is One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Matthew Yglesias discuss how Kamala Harris can broaden her appeal before November; what explains the lack of substantial coverage of Biden’s cognitive impairments ...
Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Rachel Kleinfeld on the Attempted Assassination of Trump and the Rise of Political Violence
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Rachel Kleinfeld on the Attempted Assassination of Trump and the Rise of Political Violence
Elizabeth Anderson on Equality | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Elizabeth Anderson on Equality | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Understanding Relational Equality | Elizabeth Anderson for The Good Fight
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Understanding Relational Equality | Elizabeth Anderson for The Good Fight
Francis Fukuyama on Global Chaos (and Why You Don't Need to Despair About It) | The Good Fight
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Francis Fukuyama on Global Chaos (and Why You Don't Need to Despair About It) | The Good Fight
Why 50-50 Elections Are Bad | Yuval Levin for The Good Fight
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Why 50-50 Elections Are Bad | Yuval Levin for The Good Fight
Yuval Levin on the Coming Realignment | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Yuval Levin on the Coming Realignment | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Simon Fanshawe on Merit and Diversity | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Simon Fanshawe on Merit and Diversity | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Olivier Roy on France | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Olivier Roy on France | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Brad Wilcox on Why You Should Get Married | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Brad Wilcox on Why You Should Get Married | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
William Galston on 2024 and Trump's Conviction | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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William Galston on 2024 and Trump's Conviction | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Daryl Davis on Befriending the Klan | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Daryl Davis on Befriending the Klan | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Nellie Bowles on How the Revolution Went Mainstream | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Nellie Bowles on How the Revolution Went Mainstream | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Helen Joyce on Youth Gender Medicine | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Helen Joyce on Youth Gender Medicine | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Eboo Patel on Pluralism | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
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Eboo Patel on Pluralism | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk