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Episode 181: Hélène Landemore on Politics Without Politicians
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 • Richard Aldous
28:10
Daniel Diermeier on Why Universities Are Their Own Worst Enemies
Yascha Mounk and Daniel Diermeier examine how elite institutions created the backlash that now threatens their future.
 • Yascha Mounk
1:09:10
How To Understand Nativism
Global abundance triggers a backlash.
 • Sarah Majdov
The Japanese Love Their Prime Minister. This Is Huge
An apolitical nation is genuinely excited about its new leader.
 • Quico Toro
This Week At Persuasion
Jung Chang on The Good Fight! Plus, Francis Fukuyama on the space program.
 • Leonora Barclay
Achieving Abundance Is Harder Than It Sounds
Much of the left remains committed to scarcity. Here’s how to change the debate.
 • michael bennon
The Unexpected Persistence of John Rawls
We walk in the garden of his ideas.
 • Joseph Heath
C. Thi Nguyen on Why Measuring Everything Ruins Everything
Yascha Mounk and C. Thi Nguyen examine what happens when life becomes a game—and the game stops being fun.
 • Yascha Mounk
1:25:43
Ukraine's Winter of Discontent
When the power grid is targeted, you can't call this life. It's just survival.
Houston, We Have a Problem
It's not rocket science that kept America from returning to the moon. It's state capacity.
 • Francis Fukuyama
The Stakes Are Too High To Be This Cringe
A year in, the Democrats still have no plan for Trump’s second presidency.
 • Leonora Barclay
Jung Chang on A Personal History of China
Yascha Mounk and Jung Chang explore what individual narratives can tell us about China’s past and present.
 • Yascha Mounk
1:14:41
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