Quentin Skinner on Liberty
Yascha Mounk and Quentin Skinner discuss whether the liberal conception of freedom is overly narrow. Quentin Skinner is the Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the ...
4 Okt 20251h 12min
Justin Marozzi on Slavery in the Islamic World
Justin Marozzi is a historian and journalist who has spent most of his professional life living and working in the Muslim world. His latest book is Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and th...
2 Okt 20251h 3min
David Bau on How Artificial Intelligence Works
David Bau is Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and Director of the National Deep Inference Fabric, researching the emergent internal mechanisms of deep generative networks in both Natural...
30 Sep 202559min
Katie Herzog on Drinking Your Way Sober
Yascha Mounk and Katie Herzog discuss how to treat alcoholism. Katie Herzog is the co-host of the podcast Blocked and Reported and the author of Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Brea...
27 Sep 20251h 6min
The Good Fight Club: Hounding Political Opponents, Misinformation, and Autism
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Sabina Ćudić, and Dan Williams discuss Donald Trump’s firing of a federal prosecutor and what this means for democracy in the United States...
26 Sep 202552min
Randi Weingarten on the State of America’s Public Schools
Yascha Mounk and Randi Weingarten also discuss whether teachers unions are to blame for prolonged school closures during the pandemic. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teache...
23 Sep 20251h 1min
The Good Fight Club: Populism in the UK, Threats to Free Speech, and the Future of the Middle East
A live recording of The Good Fight Club in London! In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk is joined by Fraser Nelson, Helen Joyce, and Shashank Joshi to discuss the global fallou...
20 Sep 202553min
Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Builds and Weakens Societies
Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, one of Time’s “100 Mos...
18 Sep 202545min
