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This Week at Persuasion
London pub meet next Friday! Plus, a new episode of The Good Fight Club.
4 hrs ago • Leonora Barclay
The Rise and Rise of E-Spirituality
Witches, spells, tarot are taking Gen Z by storm.
8 hrs ago • Leonora Barclay
What a Teen Social Media Ban Overlooks
Childhood itself has become an incubator for anxiety.
Jul 23 • Tim Requarth
The Misguided Panic About Superintelligence
You can’t ban something that doesn’t exist.
Jul 22 • Jerry Kaplan
How the War Splits Iranians
U.S. attacks are a gift to regime hardliners.
Jul 21 • Mitra Vand
Claude Steele on the Hidden Stress of Diverse Spaces
Yascha Mounk and Claude Steele discuss why diversity can produce anxiety—and how it differs from prejudice.
Jul 21 • Yascha Mounk
1:01:16
Back When Football Was Innocent—And the World, Too
The game of 1970 was nothing like today. That doesn't mean I'll stop watching.
Jul 19 • Quico Toro
The Good Fight Club: Refounding Liberalism, Gen Z's Political Instincts, and a Watergate Ghost Story
Francis Fukuyama, Linda Chavez, and Rachel Janfaza join Yascha Mounk to discuss what a radical liberal agenda might look like today.
Jul 18 • Yascha Mounk
1:00:02
An AI Crash Is a Real Possibility
The industry is badly overleveraged and that's unlikely to change.
Jul 17 • Damon Silvers and Matt Scherer
ICE Is Trump’s Standing Army Now
The new immigration surge proves the administration has learned nothing—except how to make less noise.
Jul 16 • Luke Hallam
Dorothy Fields Showed Us the Best of America
The songwriter was one of the great architects of U.S. identity.
Jul 15 • Francis Fukuyama
Liberalism, Heal Thyself
Any path forward for the movement starts with hard questions.
Jul 14 • Marlene Laruelle
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