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The Good Fight Club: The Vibe Shift That Wasn’t, White Identity Politics, and “When They Go Low, We Go Low”
Amanda Ripley, Jesse Singal, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Yascha Mounk explore Trump’s failed cultural revolution.
 • Yascha Mounk
1:06:28
What I Told Students At the College of William and Mary
Our liberal heritage will only survive with a revival of civic leadership.
 • Francis Fukuyama
It’s Not Too Late
What Hungary teaches us about democratic resilience.
 • Anna Grzymala-Busse
Link: Intellectual Bootcamp in 30 Mins!
Persuasion’s “Intellectual Bootcamp” will meet in 30 minutes, at 12pm EST.
 • Sam Kahn
This Week At Persuasion
Intellectual Bootcamp TODAY at 12pm EST! Plus, Timothy Garton Ash on The Good Fight!
 • Leonora Barclay
RIP8.5
The very worst case climate change scenario is officially dead. You shouldn’t let that reassure you.
 • Quico Toro
The Importance of Civic Virtue
To win, the Democratic Party needs to appeal to our better nature.
 • Robert Eisinger
In Cuba, Socialism Has Morphed Into A Racket
What I saw on the island that once considered itself the future.
 • James Bloodworth
You Can’t Trust Anything Anyone Writes
AI is creating a crisis of authenticity.
 • Talia Barnes
Al Roth on Why People Should Be Free to Sell Their Kidneys
Yascha Mounk and Al Roth discuss what we miss when we separate economics from human emotion.
 • Yascha Mounk
1:16:51
Data Centers Are Democracy’s New Battleground
AI’s most consequential political debates aren’t in Washington, but in village council chambers. And the process is broken.
 • Blake Stone-Banks
Getting to Denmark
The United States is no longer a high-trust country. We must regain what’s been lost.
 • Francis Fukuyama
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