Archive - Persuasion

Damon Linker on Why Trump 2.0 Is More Destructive Than Anyone Expected

Yascha Mounk and Damon Linker explore how this administration has surpassed even the pessimists’ predictions.

13 hrs ago • Yascha Mounk

1:16:16

At the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. focused in on poverty. So can we.

Jan 19 • John McWhorter

The Morality of a Mafia Boss

Trump wants the freedom to act how he pleases. We’re already seeing the results.

Jan 18 • Francis Fukuyama

Don’t Back Down, Europe

Trump’s tariff threats against allies should be the last straw.

Jan 18 • Francis Fukuyama

Episode 179: Georgios Varouxakis on the West

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Jan 18 • Richard Aldous

26:21

ICE Is Imposing Autocracy in Minnesota

The state has become Trump's most radical experiment with militarized government.

Jan 17 • Damon Linker

Ian Bassin on How to Save American Democracy from Trump

Yascha Mounk and Ian Bassin also report on what they got right—and wrong—over the past decade.

Jan 17 • Yascha Mounk

1:17:58

“Heritage Americans” Want to Make Citizenship About Blood

The movement now driving the Trump administration would replace Constitutional citizenship with ancestral purity tests.

Jan 16 • Sam Kahn

Why Human Rights Depend on the Nation State

A law professor defends civic nationalism.

Jan 16 • Dustin Sharp

This Week At Persuasion

Francis Fukuyama on Venezuela. Plus, Scott Anderson discusses Iran in The Good Fight.

Jan 15 • Leonora Barclay

Iran Won't Repeat 1979

The Islamic Republic has built a repressive apparatus far more cohesive than the Shah's fractured security forces.

Jan 14 • Saeid Golkar

Iranians Just Want a Normal Country

A complex—and radical—ideology undergirds the current uprising.

Jan 14 • Roohola Ramezani

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