Daron Acemoglu on How States Succeed—And Why Many Don’t
Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include (with James A. Robinson) Why Nations Fail, and (wit...
6 Sep 20251h 9min
The Good Fight Club: The “Trump Is Dead” Conspiracy, the Big Summit Between Xi, Putin and Modi, and Firings at the CDC
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Mona Charen, and Russell Muirhead explore why the “Trump is dead” conspiracy took hold, the recent summit between Xi Jinp...
4 Sep 20251h 2min
Cass Sunstein on Defending Liberalism
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. His latest book is On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Cass Sunstein...
2 Sep 202556min
Tyler Cowen on AI (Rerun)
Yascha Mounk and Tyler Cowen also discuss AI and the state of the world economy. Tyler Cowen is an American economist, columnist, and blogger. Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris chair in economics at G...
30 Aug 20251h 15min
Musa Al-Gharbi on Why We Have Never Been Woke (Rerun)
Yascha Mounk and Musa Al-Gharbi discuss why so many members of elite groups like to pretend they’re oppressed. Musa al-Gharbi is an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism...
27 Aug 20251h 1min
Why Do We Always Think We're Right? (Rerun)
What transforms reasonable people into an angry mob? Why are we so eager to dismiss those who disagree with us as inherently evil? These are questions which Jonathan Haidt has spent his career trying ...
23 Aug 202550min
Arlie Hochschild on Trump Voters, Old and New (Rerun)
Arlie Hochschild is an author and professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right and Strangers in Thei...
20 Aug 202557min
The Good Fight Club: Trump's Firings, Reinventing Liberalism, and the Rise of AI
In this week’s conversation, recorded live in D.C. at the “Liberalism for the 21st Century” conference, Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Steven Pinker, and Sabina Ćudić discuss Trump’s firings and what...
16 Aug 202555min
