Yascha Mounk on The Identity Trap
Yascha Mounk is the founder of Persuasion. His new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, was published this week. In this week’s conversation, Coleman Hughes and Yascha Mou...
30 Sep 20231h 48min
David Axelrod on 2024
David Axelrod is the former chief strategist and senior advisor to President Barack Obama. He currently serves as a Distinguished Fellow at the University of Chicago. He is author of the memoir, Belie...
23 Sep 202358min
Rory Stewart on How Not to Be a Politician
Rory Stewart is an author, a diplomat and a politician. A former Secretary of State for International Development in the United Kingdom, Stewart is now the president of the global poverty-alleviation ...
16 Sep 20231h
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on the Tyranny of the Minority
Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government at Harvard University, and Daniel Ziblatt is the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government a...
9 Sep 20231h 9min
Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech
Greg Lukianoff is president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and the co-author, with Jonathan Haidt, of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Idea...
19 Aug 20231h 3min
Sohrab Ahmari on Post-Liberalism
Sohrab Ahmari is a writer, commentator, and the founding editor of Compact. He is the author of Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–and What to Do About It. In this week’s conve...
12 Aug 20231h 20min
Is Democracy More Resilient Than We Think?
John Carey is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and is a co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a research group which monitors threats to American democracy. In this week’s conversation, Yascha ...
5 Aug 20231h 2min
Susan Neiman on Why Left ≠ Woke
Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, and the author of Left is Not Woke. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Sus...
29 Juli 20231h 3min
