
Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations
Colin Woodard is an American journalist. He is the author of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Colin Woo...
22 Jul 20231h 19min

After Affirmative Action
Peter Arcidiacono is an economist at Duke University and an expert on affirmative action. Arcidiacono served as an expert witness for Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) in SFFA v. Harvard. In ...
15 Jul 20231h 3min

Michael Walzer on Liberalism and its Critics
Michael Walzer is an eminent political philosopher and the author of numerous books, including Just and Unjust Wars and Spheres of Justice. He is professor emeritus at the Institute of Advanced Study,...
8 Jul 202356min

Tim Mak on the Ukrainian Counteroffensive
Tim Mak is a writer, reporter, and founder of the online publication The Counteroffensive. He was formerly the Washington Investigative Correspondent for National Public Radio. In this week’s convers...
1 Jul 20231h 1min

Michael Lind Makes the Case for Economic Populism
Michael Lind is a writer and professor of the practice at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-founder of the think tank New America and th...
24 Jun 20231h 3min

Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder on Fighting Illiberalism, Right and Left
Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder are writers and professors of history at Carleton College. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder discuss the predominance of certain progre...
17 Jun 20231h 19min

Tomiwa Owolade on What We Get Wrong About Race
Tomiwa Owolade is a writer and author of the forthcoming book This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Tomiwa Owolade discuss how some popu...
10 Jun 202350min

Why Erdoğan Won
Nora Fisher Onar is an associate professor of international studies at the University of San Francisco and author of the forthcoming book Contesting Pluralism(s): Islam, Liberalism and Nationalism in ...
3 Jun 202349min



















