This Week at Persuasion

Join our online happy hour! Plus, Dean Spears and Michael Geruso on The Good Fight.

A woman—sadly not the author—in a swimsuit cools off in the Trocadero Fountain, in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, on July 2, 2025, as a heatwave hits France. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images.)

• Our next London pub meet will be on Friday, July 25, at 6:30pm at Ye Olde Mitre in Holborn. Please email me at london@persuasion.community if yo…