👤 Yascha Mounk

2026-09-21 · Persuasion · Politics

The Last Nail in the Coffin for Friedrich Merz

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2026-10-05 · The Dispatch · Politics

The Three-Party Problem

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2026-10-03 · Persuasion · Politics

Galen Druke on the Midterms

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2026-09-29 · Persuasion · Politics

Frank Furedi on the Case for Populism

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2026-09-26 · Persuasion · World

Simon Sebag Montefiore on the Origins of the Modern Middle East

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2026-09-19 · Persuasion · Technology

Jerry Kaplan on Why AI Won’t Kill Us All

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2026-08-24 · Persuasion

🔮 In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama discuss why building things with your hands is an antidote to dependence on big tech, whether AI will erode the practical skills future generations need to survive, and what hobbyist robotics has in common with Ukraine’s battlefield ingenuity. assertive

2026-08-24 · Persuasion

🔮 In an event exclusively for readers of American Purpose and Persuasion, Yascha Mounk will be interviewing Francis Fukuyama about his life and thought at 5pm on Sunday, September 6 at The Abbey Centre, London. assertive

2026-08-31 · Persuasion

🔮 We’re on vacation this week, so are rerunning a fun “beach read” episode exploring if your nearest and dearest could be psychopaths. Miss us already? assertive

2026-09-05 · Persuasion

🔮 In your book you suggest that it depends on a set of circumstances, such as how set the institutional environment is in which they operate and what the likely replacement would be like. assertive

2026-09-08 · Persuasion

🔮 If I had to give you a thesis, it would be that Donald Trump is a unique figure in our politics, that there aren’t a lot of other people like him, because of his relationship to America for decades and decades, not just as a television game show host, but as somebody who lived on Page Six, somebody who wrote The Art of the Deal, someone who’s been on all of these luminaries and talk shows. assertive

2026-09-12 · Persuasion

🔮 There’s a kind of melancholy, I think, that people feel for the good old days, for a world that was maybe slower, where the worth that they had relative to their environment was a little bit clearer than in the world today. assertive

2026-09-15 · Persuasion

🔮 In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jacob Weisberg discuss why American institutions proved far less resistant to Trump in his second term than his first, what figures like Jeff Bezos and Brad Karp reveal about the social nature of courage and cowardice, and whether Harvard’s response to the Trump administration could become a turning point for institutional resistance. assertive

2026-09-19 · Persuasion

🔮 In fact, you’ve argued at times that we may already have reached something like artificial general intelligence. assertive

2026-09-21 · Persuasion

🔮 A series of elections held today are unlikely to receive the same attention but may be even more revelatory about Germany’s dire state. assertive

2026-09-26 · Persuasion

🔮 Once they did that, you were entering into a game in which there was a struggle for supremacy and over who would create their version of the state. assertive

2026-09-29 · Persuasion

🔮 Then this guy put up his hand and said, Professor Furedi, are you saying that democracy is good in and of itself, and you would even respect democracy if it went against your views? assertive

2026-10-03 · Persuasion

🔮 Might they even win the Senate? assertive