Are America's Institutions Broken?
Sam Koppelman is a Democratic strategist who served as director of surrogate speechwriting on the Biden campaign. He is the author, with former Attorney General Eric Holder, of Our Unfinished March: T...
4 Juni 20221h 7min
Robert P. George on Free Speech, Philosophical Liberalism, and Conservatism After Trump
Robert P. George is an American legal scholar and political philosopher. The McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, George is considered one of the foremost conservative intelle...
28 Maj 20221h 10min
Adolph Reed, Jr. on Race and Class in America
Adolph Reed, Jr. is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written widely about race and class and is the author, most recently, of The South: Jim Crow and I...
21 Maj 202257min
Thomas Piketty on Why the World Keeps Getting More Equal
Thomas Piketty is one of the foremost economists in the world, renowned for his work on wealth concentration and inequality. The author of the bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century, his late...
14 Maj 20221h 15min
David Wallace-Wells on Climate Change
David Wallace-Wells is one of the foremost journalists covering climate change. A writer at The New York Times and a columnist at The New York Times Magazine, Wallace-Wells is the author of the best-s...
7 Maj 20221h 7min
Jonathan Haidt on Why Public Discourse Has Become So Stupid
One of the world’s most influential social psychologists, a professor of ethical leadership at NYU's Stern School of Business, and a member of Persuasion's Board of Advisors, Jonathan Haidt is the aut...
30 Apr 20221h 4min
Yascha Mounk on Making Diverse Democracies Work
Yascha Mounk is a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and the founder of Persuasion. His new book, The Great Experi...
23 Apr 20221h 1min
The Classics are for Everyone
Roosevelt Montás is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University, where he was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum from 2008 to 2018. He is the author of Rescuing ...
16 Apr 202250min
