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Rebecca Haw Allensworth on How Professional Licenses are Rigging the Game for Insiders
Yascha Mounk and Rebecca Haw Allensworth examine how professional licensing has become America’s most important—and most restrictive—regulatory…
6 hrs ago • Yascha Mounk
56:23
The European Court of Human Rights Is Betraying Its Purported Values
What a case in Georgia shows about the limits to free speech in Europe.
20 hrs ago • Jacob Mchangama
Why Trump Seems Confused By His Own War
The president is attempting cold hard realism. He’s quickly discovering the limits to that approach.
24 hrs ago • Sam Kahn
Inside the Anti-Tech Rebellion In Schools
Children are being given iPads. Parents are speaking out.
Jun 7 • Nicholas Smyth
The West’s Greatest Innovation—An Independent Judiciary
Trump is returning America to the dark days of personalist rule.
Jun 6 • Francis Fukuyama
Steve Stewart-Williams on Sex Differences and Human Nature
Yascha Mounk and Steve Stewart-Williams examine what science reveals about biological and psychological differences between men and women.
Jun 6 • Yascha Mounk
1:12:32
This Week at Persuasion
Kathryn Paige Harden on The Good Fight! Plus, a London pub meet.
Jun 5 • Leonora Barclay
Goodbye To All That
2010s digital media closes up shop.
Jun 5 • Harry Cheadle
A Precarious Balance
Governments are increasingly taking undemocratic steps in the name of preserving democracy—but this must be done with caution.
Jun 4 • Thomas Kent
In Britain, A Tragic Murder Was Followed By Mass Confusion
Here’s what the case looks like without the hyperbole.
Jun 4 • Cathy Young
Russia’s Oil Is Getting Hammered
How Ukraine learned to hit Putin where it hurts.
Jun 3 • Ines Burrell
Welcome to the Postmodern Presidency
Before there was Trump, there was French theory.
Jun 3 • Damon Linker
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