Newly-Minted Nobel Prize Winner James Robinson on How Societies Thrive
James Robinson, a political scientist and economist, is the Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago. Robinson is the co-author, with Daron Acemoglu, of Why Nations Fa...
14 Okt 202454min
Charles Taylor on Identity and Modernity
Sign up for the Persuasion panel event in London: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trump-vs-harris-what-next-for-america-and-the-world-tickets-1026768591497 Yascha Mounk and Charles Taylor discuss the mo...
12 Okt 20241h 9min
What Elites Really Believe
Yascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss luxury beliefs and the concept of "elite misinformation." Ruxandra Teslo is a PhD student in Genomics at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. She writes abou...
5 Okt 20241h 3min
Amanda Ripley on How to Survive Disaster
Yascha Mounk and Amanda Ripley discuss what natural catastrophes reveal about human nature. Amanda Ripley is an American author and journalist. Her books include The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Di...
28 Sep 202455min
Mailbag #1: Is America Headed for Civil War?
The first installment of a new monthly feature. In this inaugural mailbag, Yascha answers listener questions on the upcoming US election; how concerned we should be about a second Trump term; whether...
25 Sep 202410min
Musa Al-Gharbi on Why We Have Never Been Woke
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 a...
21 Sep 20241h
Liberalism as a Way of Life
Yascha Mounk and Alexandre Lefebvre discuss taking liberalism seriously as the main moral paradigm of our world. Alexandre Lefebvre is a professor of politics and philosophy at the University of Sydn...
14 Sep 202455min
How to Stop Campus From Boiling Over
Yascha Mounk and Raj Vinnakota discuss how to build a healthy campus community (and keep it). Raj Vinnakota is President of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, co-founder of the SEED Foundation, a...
7 Sep 202446min
