Our First 100,000 Subscribers...
Help us celebrate this milestone by joining a livestream with Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama!
Dear Readers of Persuasion and American Purpose,
We’re writing with an exciting update: our community has just gained its 100,000th member!
This is a huge milestone for us. Five years since we each founded a publication—Persuasion for Yascha, American Purpose for Frank—dedicated to the defense of philosophically liberal values, we have grown far beyond what either of us imagined. Thanks to you, our readers, we know that there is a global community of citizens committed to joining us in the fight for free societies.
But even as we celebrate the strength of what we’re building together, it is clear that the threats to these values are starker than they have been for generations. We know that many of you, concerned about liberal democracy’s future, are looking to our community for guidance in this moment.
We are honored by the trust you place in us, and will work as hard as we can to live up to your expectations.
As we continue to grow, our devotion to our values remains unchanged. In our pages and our podcasts, we will continue to defend liberal democracy and the philosophical principles that undergird it—individual freedom, free speech, due process, and respect for the separation of powers.
To do so, we need your help. Our work—from Persuasion articles to the Bookstack and Good Fight podcasts, from regular columns by Frank and Yascha to essays in American Purpose—depends on your financial support. The vast majority of our content is available for free. But subscriptions make up the majority of our budget, and we’re counting on you to help us pay the bills.
So, if you are in a position to become a paying subscriber today, we’d be immensely grateful for your support of our mission by clicking the button below:
And if you already subscribe to Persuasion, please consider opting in to all of our content: simply click on “Discover new content” below, which will give you the option to toggle “on” content for American Purpose, Frank and Yascha, and the Bookstack podcast!
If you are not able to pay, help strengthen our community and support our mission in other ways: share an article; tell a friend or colleague about us; put our values into action by building a connection with someone whose worldview differs from yours. There is so much work to be done, together.
And finally: join us in conversation! Frank and Yascha will be hosting a Substack Live discussion at 6pm Eastern this Wednesday. To join, please download the Substack app (for Apple and Android) ahead of time and enable push notifications, as this means you’ll get a reminder when the live event starts. At the scheduled time, please click on this link and then the play button, or on the notification in your Substack app.
If you have any difficulties joining the event, please contact Leo at leonora.barclay@persuasion.community
Thank you for being a part of our community,
Yascha & Frank
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P.P.S. To whet your appetite, here are a few of the editorial team’s favorite Persuasion and American Purpose essays published over the past few months!
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