The Good Fight

By Yascha Mounk

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Subscribers: 606
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 269

h
 Mar 4, 2023
Great guests, thoughtful discussions on topics of worldwide interest. I always find lots of learning and find leads to further investigations.

Aaron
 Aug 9, 2018
Engaging interviews with interesting guests from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives

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"The Good Fight," the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can beat authoritarian populism.Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone.Email: goodfightpod@gmail.comTwitter: @Yascha_MounkWebsite: http://www.persuasion.community

Episode Date
Mike Pesca on How the Media Got Polarized
Apr 27, 2024
Kwame Anthony Appiah on the Right—and Wrong—Way for Universities to Handle Identity
Apr 20, 2024
Vinay Prasad on What Went Wrong With COVID
Apr 13, 2024
Alexandra Hudson on Why Civility Matters
Apr 06, 2024
Jonathan Haidt on The Anxious Generation
Mar 30, 2024
Jonathan Lynn on How Government Works (and "Yes, Minister")
Mar 23, 2024
Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness
Mar 16, 2024
Ed Luce on America in 2024
Mar 09, 2024
Alex Byrne on the Trouble with Gender
Mar 02, 2024
Larry Summers on What Went Wrong on Campus
Feb 24, 2024
Francisco Toro on Guatemala’s Political Revolution
Feb 17, 2024
Ricardo Hausmann on How Economies Grow
Feb 10, 2024
Martha Nussbaum on Living (and Eating) Morally
Feb 03, 2024
Ruy Teixeira on How the Democrats Lost the Working Class
Jan 27, 2024
Albert Wu on Taiwan’s Past, Present and Future
Jan 20, 2024
Rob Henderson on Foster Care, Social Class and the New American Elite
Jan 13, 2024
Tyler Austin Harper on How to Fix American Universities
Jan 06, 2024
Branko Milanovic on Globalization
Dec 24, 2023
Mary Harrington on Feminism
Dec 16, 2023
Philip Pettit on What It Means to Be Free
Dec 09, 2023
Tara Isabella Burton on the Myth of Self-Creation
Dec 02, 2023
Tim Urban on Everything
Nov 25, 2023
Bethany Allen on How China Abuses its Economic Might
Nov 18, 2023
Robert Sapolsky on Free Will
Nov 11, 2023
Anshel Pfeffer on Israel and the War in the Middle East
Nov 04, 2023
David Brooks on Knowing Others (and Ourselves)
Oct 28, 2023
Jonathan Rauch on Why Many People Are Unhappy in Middle Age (and How Life Gets Better After Fifty)
Oct 21, 2023
Terror and Tragedy in the Middle East
Oct 14, 2023
Angus Deaton on America’s Deaths of Despair
Oct 07, 2023
Yascha Mounk on The Identity Trap
Sep 30, 2023
David Axelrod on 2024
Sep 23, 2023
Rory Stewart on How Not to Be a Politician
Sep 16, 2023
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on the Tyranny of the Minority
Sep 09, 2023
Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech
Aug 19, 2023
Sohrab Ahmari on Post-Liberalism
Aug 12, 2023
Is Democracy More Resilient Than We Think?
Aug 05, 2023
Susan Neiman on Why Left ≠ Woke
Jul 29, 2023
Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations
Jul 22, 2023
After Affirmative Action
Jul 15, 2023
Michael Walzer on Liberalism and its Critics
Jul 08, 2023
Tim Mak on the Ukrainian Counteroffensive
Jul 01, 2023
Michael Lind Makes the Case for Economic Populism
Jun 24, 2023
Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder on Fighting Illiberalism, Right and Left
Jun 17, 2023
Tomiwa Owolade on What We Get Wrong About Race
Jun 10, 2023
Why Erdoğan Won
Jun 03, 2023
Jason Furman on the Future of the World Economy
May 27, 2023
Will Humanity Survive AI?
May 20, 2023
Israel’s Democratic Crisis
May 13, 2023
William Deresiewicz on the “Excellent Sheep” of the American Elite
May 06, 2023
Ed Luce on an America—and a World—Divided
Apr 29, 2023
Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Past and Present
Apr 22, 2023
Ben Ansell on Why Politics Fail
Apr 15, 2023
Murtaza Hussain on How Immigrant and Minority Voters are Misunderstood
Apr 08, 2023
Matthew Goodwin on Why the Last Decade of Politics Has Been So Bizarr
Apr 01, 2023
Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Mar 25, 2023
Jonathan Greenblatt on Anti-Semitism
Mar 18, 2023
Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics
Mar 11, 2023
Matthias Matthijs on the Future of Europe
Mar 04, 2023
Vincent Lloyd on What Happens When “Antiracism” Goes Wrong
Feb 25, 2023
Rachel Kleinfeld on Why America Isn’t About to Have a Civil War
Feb 18, 2023
Ro Khanna on the Progressive Case for Patriotism and Capitalism
Feb 11, 2023
Richard Haass on Where America Went Wrong
Feb 04, 2023
Matt Bennett on The Democrats’ Image Problem
Jan 28, 2023
Charles Kenny on the Material Progress of the Developing World
Jan 21, 2023
Bart Somers on Sustaining Diverse Cities in Tough Circumstances
Jan 14, 2023
Tabata Amaral on Brazil’s Future
Jan 07, 2023
Shadi Hamid on the Tensions Between Liberalism and Democracy
Dec 24, 2022
The Revolt Against Iran's Theocratic Regime
Dec 17, 2022
Ben Rhodes on Where American Foreign Policy Went Wrong
Dec 10, 2022
James Kirchick on America’s Enormous Progress on Gay Rights
Dec 03, 2022
Danielle Allen on the Enduring Relevance of the Constitution
Nov 26, 2022
Renée DiResta on How (Not) to Fix Social Media
Nov 19, 2022
Ed Luce on America’s Future After the Midterms
Nov 12, 2022
Russ Muirhead on the Enduring Appeal of Conspiracy Theory
Nov 05, 2022
Sam Harris on Whether Religion Really Does Make Everything Worse
Oct 29, 2022
Lis Smith on What Democrats Do Wrong
Oct 22, 2022
Shashank Joshi on How the War in Ukraine Will End
Oct 15, 2022
Why More and More Children are Cutting Off Their Parents
Oct 08, 2022
Heather McGhee on Why Racial Progress is Not Zero-Sum
Oct 01, 2022
Richard Reeves on Why Men are Struggling
Sep 24, 2022
Robert Kagan on America’s Future, Foreign Policy Realism, and the War in Ukraine
Sep 17, 2022
Chloé Valdary on How to be a (True) Antiracist
Sep 10, 2022
Should Donald Trump Be Prosecuted?
Sep 03, 2022
Coleman Hughes on How America Racializes its Citizens
Aug 13, 2022
Sarah Longwell on 2024
Aug 06, 2022
What an Overly Pessimistic View of America Gets Wrong
Jul 30, 2022
Corey Brettschneider on Free Speech
Jul 23, 2022
Spin Dictators
Jul 16, 2022
David French on Abortion
Jul 09, 2022
Graeme Wood on January 6th, Saudi Arabia, and Interviewing Extremists
Jul 02, 2022
Do the Politics of Class and Race Stand in Tension?
Jun 25, 2022
Ian Bremmer on the Geopolitical Recession
Jun 18, 2022
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan
Jun 11, 2022
Are America's Institutions Broken?
Jun 04, 2022
Robert P. George on Free Speech, Philosophical Liberalism, and Conservatism After Trump
May 28, 2022
Adolph Reed, Jr. on Race and Class in America
May 21, 2022
Thomas Piketty on Why the World Keeps Getting More Equal
May 14, 2022
David Wallace-Wells on Climate Change
May 07, 2022
Jonathan Haidt on Why Public Discourse Has Become So Stupid
Apr 30, 2022
Yascha Mounk on Making Diverse Democracies Work
Apr 23, 2022
The Classics are for Everyone
Apr 16, 2022
Randall Kennedy on Racism, Critical Race Theory, and the Need for (Chastened) Optimism
Apr 09, 2022
T. M. Scanlon on What We Owe to Each Other
Apr 02, 2022
Anne Applebaum on How to Fight Back Against Dictators like Putin
Mar 26, 2022
How the War Might End
Mar 19, 2022
Russia, Today
Mar 12, 2022
Lea Ypi on Freedom
Mar 05, 2022
George Packer on the War in Ukraine
Mar 01, 2022
Moisés Naím on The Revenge of Power
Feb 19, 2022
Jonathan Sumption on the Limits of State Power
Feb 12, 2022
How (Not) to Save Refugees
Feb 05, 2022
Javier Cercas on How to Deal With Your Nation’s Past
Jan 29, 2022
Ramachandra Guha on the Crisis in the World’s Largest Democracy
Jan 22, 2022
The Conservative Case for Philosophical Liberalism
Jan 15, 2022
Fiona Hill on the Working Class, Populism, and Russia
Jan 08, 2022
Michael Ignatieff on How To Stay True to Liberal Values in Politics
Dec 18, 2021
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the Importance of Due Process
Dec 11, 2021
John McWhorter on Why Woke Ideas Harm Minority Communities
Dec 04, 2021
Garry Kasparov on Resisting Authoritarianism
Nov 27, 2021
Michael Powell on Race, Class, and Free Speech
Nov 20, 2021
Andrew Yang on Why Democrats Are in Crisis
Nov 13, 2021
Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China
Nov 06, 2021
Peter Singer on How to Reduce Suffering
Oct 30, 2021
Ross Douthat on the Trouble with Experts
Oct 23, 2021
Francis Fukuyama’s Defense of Liberalism
Oct 16, 2021
Caitlin Flanagan on Free Speech and America’s Future
Oct 09, 2021
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Rethinking Identity
Oct 02, 2021
Elizabeth Bruenig on Religion, Liberalism, and Wokeness
Sep 25, 2021
Why Americans Fight Over History
Sep 18, 2021
You Just Won't Understand!
Sep 11, 2021
Are We Too Divided to Be Patriotic?
Sep 04, 2021
Why We Need a Sane Republican Party
Aug 28, 2021
How (Not) to Think About Race
Aug 21, 2021
How to Boost Innovation
Aug 14, 2021
An Iranian in America
Aug 07, 2021
Saving Meritocracy
Jul 31, 2021
Why Is Crime Rising?
Jul 24, 2021
Inside the Insurrection
Jul 17, 2021
Disaster is Political
Jul 10, 2021
The Pursuit of Happiness
Jul 03, 2021
What Binds Us Together
Jun 26, 2021
Don't Give Up on Truth
Jun 19, 2021
An Optimist’s Vision of America
Jun 12, 2021
James Carville on How Democrats Self-Sabotage
Jun 05, 2021
What Went Wrong In India
May 29, 2021
How To Avoid High Conflict
May 22, 2021
Would You Wave the Magic Wand?
May 15, 2021
The Case For a Liberal Islam
May 08, 2021
The Perils of State Power
May 01, 2021
Why Governments Fail
Apr 24, 2021
The Dangers of Bad Science and Simple Solutions
Apr 17, 2021
When Foreign Aid Fails
Apr 10, 2021
Lessons From A Pandemic
Apr 03, 2021
What the West Misses About China
Mar 27, 2021
How to Save the Internet
Mar 20, 2021
What You Miss About the World If You Only Study Students at Harvard
Mar 13, 2021
Intent Matters
Mar 06, 2021
The Weaponization of Nostalgia
Feb 27, 2021
How To Understand Your Enemy
Feb 20, 2021
Why Do We Always Think We're Right?
Feb 13, 2021
Who Is Fighting Whom?
Feb 06, 2021
Is Social Media to Blame For It All?
Jan 30, 2021
Can We Build a More Rational World?
Jan 23, 2021
How to Strengthen American Democracy
Jan 16, 2021
Is It Wrong to Believe in Racial Progress?
Jan 09, 2021
Why Education Fails to Advance Equality
Jan 02, 2021
Xi's China
Dec 19, 2020
Is there Hope for Humanity? (Yes.)
Dec 12, 2020
How Can Joe Biden Strengthen Democracy Around the World?
Dec 05, 2020
The Best Way to Lose an Election
Nov 28, 2020
Is French Secularism the Reason for Those Terrorist Attacks? (No.)
Nov 21, 2020
What is the "Successor Ideology"?
Nov 14, 2020
The Meaning of the Election
Nov 07, 2020
How to Fight for Democracy
Oct 31, 2020
How (Not) to Change Minds
Oct 23, 2020
Are Democracies Failing?
Oct 16, 2020
Why Is America Still Friends with Saudi Arabia?
Oct 09, 2020
Should There Be A Billion Americans?
Oct 02, 2020
How to Persuade Your "Enemy"
Sep 18, 2020
What Would a Truly Integrated Society Look Like?
Sep 04, 2020
Is It Time to Abandon Meritocracy?
Aug 14, 2020
Why Do Diversity Programs Fail
Aug 04, 2020
Is it Racist for a White Man to Bounce a Brown Baby on His Lap?
Jul 10, 2020
An Exciting Announcement!
Jul 02, 2020
Thomas Rid
Jun 19, 2020
Omar Wasow
Jun 05, 2020
Francis Fukuyama on COVID-19
May 27, 2020
Ron Daniels
May 13, 2020
Sarah Longwell
May 01, 2020
David Miliband on the Coronavirus
Apr 15, 2020
Daniel Ziblatt
Apr 08, 2020
Constanze Stelzenmüller
Mar 20, 2020
Ruy Teixeira
Mar 04, 2020
E. J. Dionne
Feb 19, 2020
Ezra Klein
Jan 31, 2020
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Jan 22, 2020
Peter Hall
Jan 01, 2020
Sam Koppelman
Dec 13, 2019
Rachel Brown
Nov 27, 2019
Martin Gurri
Nov 13, 2019
Dan Kelemen
Oct 30, 2019
Peter Pomerantsev
Oct 02, 2019
James Robinson
Sep 16, 2019
Helen Lewis
Aug 28, 2019
David Frum
Aug 14, 2019
Dan Baer
Jul 31, 2019
Timur Kuran
Jul 18, 2019
George Packer Vol. 2
Jul 03, 2019
Elif Shafak
Jun 16, 2019
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
May 08, 2019
Nicholas Christakis
Apr 24, 2019
Heidi Tworek
Apr 10, 2019
Tony Blair
Mar 27, 2019
Karen Stenner
Mar 13, 2019
Chayenne Polimédio
Feb 27, 2019
Cory Doctorow
Feb 13, 2019
James Bloodworth
Jan 30, 2019
Coleman Hughes
Jan 16, 2019
Sagarika Ghose
Jan 02, 2019
John Judis
Dec 19, 2018
Helen Pluckrose
Dec 05, 2018
Max Boot
Nov 21, 2018
Tim Snyder
Nov 07, 2018
Tim Dixon
Oct 24, 2018
Thomas Chatterton-Williams
Oct 10, 2018
Justin E. H. Smith
Sep 26, 2018
Sheri Berman Redux
Sep 12, 2018
Peter Wolodarski
Aug 29, 2018
James Crabtree
Aug 15, 2018
Kori Schake
Aug 01, 2018
Jake Sullivan
Jul 18, 2018
Jeff Jarvis
Jul 04, 2018
Michael McFaul
Jun 20, 2018
Glen Weyl
Jun 06, 2018
Vladimir Kara-Murza
May 23, 2018
Cecilia Muñoz
May 09, 2018
Ezra Klein
Apr 25, 2018
Anand Giridharadas, Part 2
Apr 11, 2018
Anand Giridharadas, Part 1
Mar 28, 2018
David French
Mar 14, 2018
Benjamin Wittes
Feb 28, 2018
Jennifer Rubin
Feb 14, 2018
David Miliband
Jan 31, 2018
Sabeel Rahman
Jan 17, 2018
Martin Sandbu
Jan 03, 2018
Francis Fukuyama Rerun
Dec 20, 2017
Branko Milanovic
Dec 06, 2017
Ian Bassin
Nov 22, 2017
Perry Bacon Jr.
Nov 08, 2017
Rachel Kleinfeld
Oct 25, 2017
E.J. Dionne
Oct 11, 2017
Nicholas Casey
Sep 27, 2017
Matthew d’Ancona
Sep 13, 2017
Jamie Kirchick
Aug 30, 2017
Ivan Krastev
Aug 16, 2017
Anne Applebaum
Aug 03, 2017
George Packer
Jul 05, 2017
Mark Blyth (Corrected)
Jun 21, 2017
Brian Klaas
Jun 07, 2017
Catherine Rampell
May 24, 2017
Francis Fukuyama
May 10, 2017
Evan McMullin
Apr 26, 2017
A World Without a Leader
Apr 12, 2017
Divided We Fall
Mar 29, 2017
The Most Dangerous Idea in American Politics
Mar 15, 2017
Liberal Nationalism
Mar 01, 2017
A Time To Start Drinking
Feb 15, 2017
The Democratic Recession
Feb 02, 2017
Bowling for Democracy
Jan 24, 2017