Archive - Persuasion

Reading Is Dead. And We Killed It.

What BookTok is doing to the industry—and our minds.

2 hrs ago • Leonora Barclay

Trump’s Threat to Scientific Research

Why the administration’s plan will shift accountability from scientific standards to political review.

7 hrs ago • Don Kettl

Charles Fain Lehman on Why Cities Got Safer

Yascha Mounk and Charles Fain Lehman explore how strategic policing drove the decline in violent crime—and why Baltimore was left behind.

10 hrs ago • Yascha Mounk

1:19:04

America’s AI Policy Is Truly Chaotic

What we need is real regulation, fast.

Jun 29 • Francis Fukuyama

Episode 190: Antonia Senior on the Cambridge Five

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST.

Jun 28 • Richard Aldous

32:08

The Good Fight Club: Why the Center Left Is Losing, the Squad vs. the Median Voter, and How Patriotism Wins Elections

Matthew Yglesias, Claire Ainsley, and Yascha Mounk debate whether progressives have abandoned the working-class voters they once claimed to represent.

Jun 27 • Yascha Mounk

46:28

Pakistan Has Never Looked So Important

There’s only one winner of the Iran deal—the country that made it happen.

Jun 26 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

This Week At Persuasion

Join Francis Fukuyama at Intellectual Bootcamp TODAY! Plus, Curtis Yarvin on The Good Fight.

Jun 26 • Leonora Barclay

Belarus Steps Back From Russia

How Lukashenko exposed Putin’s weakness.

Jun 26 • Nikola Mikovic

Right and Left Are Seeing Two Different Worlds

Even when facts are agreed upon, interpretations are wildly different.

Jun 25 • Dan Williams

Trump Lost Both the War and the Negotiation

America didn’t achieve a single one of its aims in Iran.

Jun 25 • Saeid Golkar

We Need an International Treaty to Ban Superintelligence

No country has an interest in building AI that could wipe out humanity.

Jun 24 • Andrea Miotti

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