John McWhorter on Why Woke Ideas Harm Minority Communities
John McWhorter is an author, a member of the Persuasion Board of Advisors, a Columbia University linguist, and a columnist for The New York Times. His latest book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has ...
4 Dec 20211h 6min
Garry Kasparov on Resisting Authoritarianism
Garry Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion, is the founder of the Renew Democracy Institute and chairperson of the Human Rights Foundation. He is a member of the Persuasion's Board of Advisors. ...
27 Nov 202154min
Michael Powell on Race, Class, and Free Speech
Michael Powell is a reporter for The New York Times, covering issues including free speech, education and identity politics. His reporting takes him from the campuses of elite universities and private...
20 Nov 202147min
Andrew Yang on Why Democrats Are in Crisis
Andrew Yang is a popular commentator and former presidential candidate. In his latest book, Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy, he advocates for economic reforms like Universal Basic Income...
13 Nov 20211h 6min
Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China
Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has for many decades been one of the most prominent critics of U.S. foreign policy. In this week’s convers...
6 Nov 202157min
Peter Singer on How to Reduce Suffering
Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, is one of the most influential philosophers of the past fifty years. A leading exponent of utilitarianism, he has often ...
30 Okt 202157min
Ross Douthat on the Trouble with Experts
Ross Douthat, a columnist for The New York Times, has long advocated for a brand of reform conservatism that stands in stark contrast to Trumpism. His latest book, The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illnes...
23 Okt 20211h 6min
Francis Fukuyama’s Defense of Liberalism
Francis Fukuyama, one of the most important living political scientists, is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute. His writing spans from the origins of society in earliest...
16 Okt 20211h 12min
