Yascha Mounk

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Claire Lehmann on The Psychology Behind Wokeness

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Coleman Hughes on the Legacy of Slavery

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Emily Oster on What’s Gone Wrong with Modern Parenting

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Take Trump Literally

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Do you publish your own Substack? Please help spread the word about my writing by recommending this publication to your readers! I’d be very grateful. - YaschaDonald Trump is probably the human being now trodding the surface of the Earth about whom the most has been written. Nearly all of that commentary is depressingly evanescent; much of it consists simply in using fancy language to convey the writer’s disapproval.
John McWhorter on Pronouns

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Anyone Who Knows What's About to Happen Is Lying

2 months ago | yaschamounk.substack.com | Yascha Mounk

Have you been enjoying my writing over the past months? Please support my work, and help ensure that I can keep articles like this one accessible to everyone, by becoming a paying subscriber today!Here’s a simple question: What will Donald Trump’s approval ratings be in the fall of 2028? A lot of journalists and social media personalities claim to know the answer. Some believe that he will have accomplished such amazing things that he will be extraordinarily popular.
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Europe's Coming Fall

2 months ago | yaschamounk.substack.com | Yascha Mounk

We stand at the beginning of a new political era. From Europe to America, radical politicians are overturning the old order. But what will the consequences of their rise to power be? And why is all of this happening now? In the next iteration of my new experiment in communal learning, we will try to answer this question together. So please join me for Is Democracy in Danger? The Causes and Consequences of Populism.
Proportional Representation Is Not the Answer to America’s Problems

Jan 16, 2025 | yaschamounk.substack.com | Yascha Mounk

America’s two party system sucks. One of the things that is astonishing to any immigrant to America—even one who grew up in a reasonably affluent society like Germany—is the sheer amount of choice the country offers in just about every realm of life. There is an endless profusion of cable television channels. American grocery stores are incomprehensibly giant, offering a commensurably vast number of different products. Even sports is a notably variegated affair.