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1 week ago | persuasion.community | Dalibor Rohac

This article is brought to you by American Purpose, the magazine and community founded by Francis Fukuyama in 2020, which is proudly part of the Persuasion family. By capturing the imagination of America’s conservative media and intellectuals, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary seems to have created a playbook that other aspiring authoritarians may emulate in order to ingratiate themselves with the Republican Party and with President Donald Trump. But how well does it work for Hungary’s imitators?

1 week ago | persuasion.community | Yascha Mounk

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1 week ago | persuasion.community | Sam Kahn

Do you want analysis that speaks truth to power without fear or favor? That stands up for the values of a free society wherever they are threatened?

1 week ago | persuasion.community | Eboo Patel

This piece is part of a series, generously made possible by the support of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, on pluralism and dialogue in education. In 2020, Steven Wilson, former education adviser to the governor of Massachusetts, was condemned as racist and fired from his job for writing an essay on the educational philosophy underlying the network of charter schools he founded.

2 weeks ago | persuasion.community | Damon Linker

This past semester, I taught a seminar titled “Trump 2.0.” to undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania. I will be honest: it was a deeply unsettling experience. I’ve never taught a course remotely like this one. I doubt very many people have. I’m trained as a political theorist. I have an MA in history, focused on European intellectual and cultural history.