Dean Spears & Michael Geruso on Why We Need More People
Dean Spears and Michael Geruso are economists, demographers, and associate professors at the University of Texas at Austin. Their book After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People is...
5 Jul 202558min
Luke Tryl on Why Britain Is Miserable
Luke Tryl is the Executive Director of More in Common UK, where he leads the organization’s work on public opinion. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Luke Tryl discuss where Keir Starmer ...
1 Jul 202554min
Irshad Manji on Understanding Each Other in Turbulent Times
Yascha Mounk and Irshad Manji also discuss how to have dialogue with ideological opponents. Irshad Manji is the founder of Moral Courage College, which equips people worldwide to turn heated issues i...
28 Jun 202533min
Francis Fukuyama on War in the Middle East
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. His latest book is Liberalism and Its Discontents. He is also the author of the “Frankly Fukuyama” column, carried forwa...
25 Jun 20251h
Peter Hessler on China
Yascha Mounk and Peter Hessler describe how China has changed over the last 30 years–and where it might go next. For more than a quarter of a century, Peter Hessler has been a staff writer for the Ne...
21 Jun 20251h 11min
Helen Lewis on The Genius Myth
Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic who writes about politics and culture. Her latest book, The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea, is out now. In this week’s conversation, ...
17 Jun 20251h 2min
Lenore Skenazy on Rejecting Helicopter Parenting
Yascha Mounk and Lenore Skenazy discuss why kids should take risks. After letting her 9-year-old ride the New York City subway alone—and creating a media firestorm—Lenore Skenazy wrote the book, “Fr...
14 Jun 202556min
Shashank Joshi on How Warfare is Changing
Shashank Joshi is Defence Editor at The Economist, where he writes on a wide range of national security, defence and intelligence issues. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Shashank Joshi ...
11 Jun 20251h 3min
