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Yascha Mounk

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Host at The Good Fight

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Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Persuasion

Author at Freelance

The Identity Trap | Founder @JoinPersuasion | Professor @JohnsHopkins | Writer @TheAtlantic | Fellow @CFR_org | Moynihan Public Scholar @CCNY | Opinions mine

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Articles

  • Steve Stewart-Williams on Nature vs Nurture

    1 week ago | persuasion.community | Yascha Mounk

    Thanks for reading! The best way to make sure that you don’t miss any of these conversations is to subscribe to The Good Fight on your favorite podcast app.

  • Paul Krugman on Why International Trade is Good

    2 weeks ago | persuasion.community | Yascha Mounk

    Thanks for reading! The best way to make sure that you don’t miss any of these conversations is to subscribe to The Good Fight on your favorite podcast app.

  • Trump’s Assault on Harvard Is an Astonishing Act of National Self-Sabotage

    2 weeks ago | persuasion.community | Yascha Mounk

    The best way to understand Donald Trump’s administration, Ivan Krastev told me a month ago, is as a “revolutionary government in the form of an imperial court.” And the most important thing about revolutionary governments is that they quickly develop an unstoppable dynamic of their own, one in which the logic of events pushes its originators to ever more radical actions which they themselves might not have anticipated taking a few months or weeks ago.

  • Katja Hoyer on East Germany Then and Now

    2 weeks ago | persuasion.community | Yascha Mounk

    Thanks for reading! The best way to make sure that you don’t miss any of these conversations is to subscribe to The Good Fight on your favorite podcast app.

  • Episode 164: Edward Luce on the Life of Zbig, America's Great Power Prophet

    2 weeks ago | persuasion.community | Yascha Mounk

    Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases…In today’s episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous sits down with Edward Luce, U.S. National Editor at the Financial Times and author Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster). Bookstack is a production of American Purpose at Persuasion.

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Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk @Yascha_Mounk
7 Jan 24

Bad actors gain in power and prominence -> polarization increases -> stakes grow -> imperative to own your enemies -> willingness to engage in bad faith arguments to defend your own side -> loss of trust in "independent" institutions and experts -> bad actors gain in power and

Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk @Yascha_Mounk
22 Nov 23

RT @SophiaAram: La clairvoyance de @Yascha_Mounk sur "la gauche identitaire" est salutaire. https://t.co/QAJNMIegQg

Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk @Yascha_Mounk
20 Nov 23

Hello, Paris. https://t.co/QSmbTNh88E