What is the "Successor Ideology"?
Wesley Yang is one of the America’s leading essayists. From “Paper Tigers,” his examination of why Asian-Americans remain underrepresented in leaderships positions, to “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” his...
14 Nov 202057min
The Meaning of the Election
We’d like to think of our societies as places with a lot of social mobility, in which individuals can climb the ladder by working hard. But by tracking families with rare surnames across the centuries...
7 Nov 20201h 4min
How to Fight for Democracy
For the past years, we have paid a lot of attention to the fight for democratic values in countries where they are newly under threat. But what can activists do to stand up for democracy in countries ...
31 Okt 20201h 8min
How (Not) to Change Minds
Zion Lights has long been an environmentalist activist. When Extinction Rebellion was founded two years ago, she became one of its informal leaders, organizing highly disruptive events and representin...
23 Okt 202048min
Are Democracies Failing?
According to Ian Bremmer, the President of the Eurasia Group, the global pandemic is revealing the extent to which democracies have been failing over the past years. To strengthen them, he proposes th...
16 Okt 202047min
Why Is America Still Friends with Saudi Arabia?
Lawrence Wright has been friends with Jamal Khashoggi for nearly two decades. In a new documentary, The Kingdom of Silence, he tells the complicated story of America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia t...
9 Okt 202056min
Should There Be A Billion Americans?
For much of the past four years, Matt Yglesias dismissed worries about growing illiberalism on the left as a campus fad that is sure to fade. This year, he changed his mind, becoming increasingly voca...
2 Okt 20201h 6min
How to Persuade Your "Enemy"
Irshad Manji has a lot of experience in trying to persuade those who really don’t want to be persuaded. Early in her career, Irshad wrote two influential books that advocated for a reformed Islam. In ...
18 Sep 20201h 5min
