Archive - Persuasion

How the War Splits Iranians

U.S. attacks are a gift to regime hardliners.

8 hrs ago • 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.

16 hrs ago • 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

John Harpham on the Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

Yascha Mounk and John Harpham examine how early modern thinkers justified slavery long before modern theories of race took hold.

Jul 14 • Yascha Mounk

1:08:30

Trump’s Health Is… Complicated

He isn’t as decrepit as Democrats pretend. But Republicans are slowly imagining a post-Trump world.

Jul 13 • Sam Kahn

Deirdre McCloskey on What Really Caused the Industrial Revolution

Yascha Mounk and Deirdre McCloskey discuss why ideas, not capital accumulation, made the modern world rich.

Jul 11 • Yascha Mounk

1:27:12

This Week at Persuasion

Ivan Krastev on The Good Fight! Plus, hang out in Washington, D.C. with the Persuasion team next week!

Jul 10 • Leonora Barclay

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