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Defunding ICE Would Be the Easy Part
What happens when people who have been taught that violence is acceptable are suddenly without a job?
17 hrs ago
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Benjamin Aimlin
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Intellectual Bootcamp Tomorrow!
Reading David Graeber's "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs."
19 hrs ago
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Sam Kahn
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Ahmadinejad Leading Iran? Color Me Skeptical
Why the newly revealed American-Israeli plan never stood a chance.
22 hrs ago
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Saeid Golkar
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Join Us At LibCon 2026!
Want to hang out with Yascha, Frank, and other leading liberal thinkers? Of course you do!
May 20
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Persuasion
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Britain’s Far Right Want Power
What I saw at Saturday's “Unite the Kingdom” rally.
May 20
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Luke Hallam
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What Xi Knows That Trump Doesn’t
Threnody for a once great democracy.
May 19
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Francis Fukuyama
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Marc Lipsitch on Playing Pandemic Roulette in the Lab
Yascha Mounk and Marc Lipsitch also discuss how worried we should be about Hantavirus and Ebola.
May 19
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Yascha Mounk
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When Civilian Space Becomes a Security Weapon
The meaning of Iran’s war without boundaries.
May 18
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Saeid Golkar
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Jason Brodsky
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Why AI Is a Train, Not a Bicycle
And why that’s a very bad thing.
May 18
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Tim Requarth
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Episode 187: Ian Shapiro on How Politicians Broke Our World
Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST.
May 17
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Richard Aldous
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The Good Fight Club: The Vibe Shift That Wasn’t, White Identity Politics, and “When They Go Low, We Go Low”
Amanda Ripley, Jesse Singal, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Yascha Mounk explore Trump’s failed cultural revolution.
May 16
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Yascha Mounk
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What I Told Students At the College of William and Mary
Our liberal heritage will only survive with a revival of civic leadership.
May 15
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Francis Fukuyama
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