Elaine Kamarck and William Galston on How the Democrats Can Win
Elaine C. Kamarck is a senior fellow in Governance Studies and the director of the Center for Effective Public Management at Brookings. William A. Galston is a senior fellow and the Ezra K. Zilkha Cha...
10 Touko 202552min
Rutger Bregman on How to Live a Moral Life
Rutger Bregman is an historian and author. He is the co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition, a new initiative to mobilize talented professionals to work on the world’s most pressing problems. His...
7 Touko 20251h 4min
Kevin Mitchell on Free Will
Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He studies the interplay between genes, brains, and minds. He is the author of Innate: How the Wiring of O...
3 Touko 20251h 20min
Claire Lehmann on The Psychology Behind Wokeness
Claire Lehmann is an Australian publisher and journalist who founded the online magazine Quillette in 2015. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Quillette and contributes regularly to The Australian newsp...
1 Touko 202559min
Sarah Longwell on What Voters Really Think
Yascha Mounk and Sarah Longwell also discuss who—if anyone—can save the Democrats. Sarah Longwell is the publisher of The Bulwark, which she helped found in 2019. She regularly conducts focus groups ...
26 Huhti 20251h 9min
Ivan Krastev on American Decline
Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna. His books include Is it Tomorrow, Yet? After Eu...
23 Huhti 20251h 21min
Larry Summers on Harvard’s Showdown With Trump
Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers also discuss the administration’s tariffs. Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University. He served as t...
19 Huhti 202550min
Coleman Hughes on the Legacy of Slavery
Editor’s Note: This podcast was produced as part of Persuasion’s partnership with the Civil Discourse @ MIT program, at which Coleman Hughes recently spoke on a panel exploring the topic “Should Ameri...
16 Huhti 20251h 5min
