The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk and Emily Oster also talk about what public health authorities fell short during the pandemic. In addition to being a Professor of Economics at Brown University, Emily Oster  is the foun...

12 Huhti 202555min

John H. McWhorter teaches linguistics, American studies, and music history at Columbia University. He is the host of the podcast Lexicon Valley and writes a weekly column for The New York Times. McWho...

9 Huhti 202557min

Yascha Mounk and Jason Furman also discuss the flaws in Build Back Better. Jason Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Depar...

5 Huhti 20251h 12min

In this week’s conversation, Persuasion editor-in-chief Yascha Mounk was joined by listeners of The Good Fight for a “mailbag” episode, speaking about everything from domestic and global politics to A...

2 Huhti 20255min

Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador and served as Taiwan's first digital minister and the world’s first nonbinary cabinet minister. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Audrey Tang discu...

29 Maalis 20251h

Aaron Sibarium is a staff writer at the Washington Free Beacon, where he covers higher education and institutional capture.  In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Aaron Sibarium discuss racial...

27 Maalis 20251h 15min

Hamish McKenzie is co-founder of Substack, a platform for online publications including Persuasion and writing like Yascha’s weekly column. He is a writer and former journalist based in San Francisco....

22 Maalis 20251h 4min

Jacob Mchangama is the Founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech, a research professor at Vanderbilt University, and a Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expre...

19 Maalis 20251h 11min