Thomas Chatterton Williams on the Age of False Certainty
Yascha Mounk and Thomas Chatterton Williams explore what the summer of 2020 showed about America. Thomas Chatterton Williams is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Losing My Cool, Self-P...
2 Aug 20251h 1min
Jesse Singal on Crises in Politics and Social Science
Jesse Singal is cohost of the podcast Blocked and Reported, author of the newsletter Singal-Minded, and a contributing writer at The Dispatch. His first book is The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t...
30 Juli 20251h 4min
The Good Fight Club: Epstein, Columbia, Ukraine, Fed Independence
This week, Yascha Mounk is joined by Mona Charen, Francis Fukuyama, and Ivan Krastev to discuss how the latest revelations about Epstein will affect Donald Trump, the Trump administration’s war on uni...
26 Juli 20251h 6min
Isaac Saul on Dialogue and Disagreement
Isaac Saul is a politics reporter and the founder of Tangle, an independent, nonpartisan news outlet. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Isaac Saul discuss the importance of exploring both...
23 Juli 20251h 16min
Dan Williams on Misinformation
Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams discuss fake news. Daniel Williams is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He writes the Conspicuous Cognition newsletter, which brings toge...
19 Juli 202546min
Steven Teles on Abundance
Steven Teles is a professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the co-author of a number of books, including The Captured Economy, Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elit...
16 Juli 20251h 1min
Alex Thompson on the Decline of Joe Biden
Yascha Mounk and Alex Thompson discuss who knew what—and when. Alex Thompson is a national political correspondent for Axios and the co-author, with Jake Tapper, of Original Sin: President Biden’s De...
12 Juli 20251h 6min
Martin Wolf on the Coming Fall of the U.S. Economy
Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Martin Wolf discuss Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,”...
9 Juli 202543min
