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Fool Britannia

"Nuclear" Shouldn't Frighten You

This Week at Persuasion

Brutal in the Bedroom

Make America Sane Again

Thank You

Ben Trachtenberg

Why I'm Losing Trust in the Institutions

Home for the Holidays

Marc F. Plattner

’Neath the Christmas Tree

Devorah Goldman

Dummy article

Saudi Arabia at a Crossroads

Laure Mandeville

When the "Racism" Doesn't Seem Racist

Anna Grzymala-Busse

Sydnee Lipset

The Wild Waltz of Democracy

Damir Marusic

Shadi Hamid

The Unifying Appeal of the Arts

Zach Graves

Mike Fox

Sean Keeley

Tyler Cowen

Jamie M. Fly

Thomas O. Melia

Craig Kennedy

David Blankenhorn

Must I pick my pronouns?

🎧 Xi's China

Episode 9: Teasel Muir-Harmony on the Power of the Moon Landing

Episode 9: Teasel Muir-Harmony on the Power of the Moon Landing

Episode 9: Teasel Muir-Harmony on the Power of the Moon Landing

A Million Little Boulders

Arc of Progress?

Trump’s Ghost Will Haunt America

Mining Democracy’s Waters

The U.S.-China Competition Conundrum

Parties Onward

Dec. 16, 2020: Amanda Bennett, David Ensor, Peter Pomerantsev, Martha Bayles, Jamie Fly discuss "Turmoil at Voice of America."

Fight “Cancel Culture” on Campus

This Week At Persuasion

Sometimes You Get Another Chance

Strategic Insolvency

The Art of Losing

Dec. 14, 2020: Aviezer Tucker on "Democracy against Liberalism?"

Lessons of a Black Pioneer

Is There Hope for Humanity? (Yes.) 

Thomas E. Ricks on What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans

Episode 8: Thomas E. Ricks on First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

Episode 8: Thomas E. Ricks on First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

Episode 8: Thomas E. Ricks on First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

Lock the Door—Putin’s Still at It

Movie Making History

Dec. 11, 2020: Jessica Brandt and Eric Edelman discuss "Offsetting Authoritarian Advances."

Who Belongs in the Republican Party?

Lauren Weiner

Bash Beijing or Play Nice?

Europe to Joe Biden: It’s Not All Sugar and Spice

The Battle for Israel

Garry Kasparov

Mitchell B. Reiss

Brad Glosserman

This Week at Persuasion

Dec. 8, 2020: Jessica Drun, Charles Dunst, and Shahn Savino discuss “Will America Defend Taiwan?”

The Darkening Mind

Straying from the Herd

Dalibor Roháč

"Shame on you!"

They Accused Me of Bigotry for Criticizing a Podcast. What to Do?

How Can Joe Biden Strengthen Democracy Around the World?

Episode 7: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker on James A. Baker III

Episode 7: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker on James A. Baker

Episode 7: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker on James A. Baker

Dec. 4, 2020: Joe Horowitz, Angel Gil-Ordoñez, Murray Horwitz, Karen Karbiener, and William Sharp discuss “Walt Whitman and Democracy.”

Habanero-Hot

Mind the Gap

Morten Høi Jensen

Soft Power, Anyone?

Selfies at Fiume

To Fight Climate Change, Get Real

Tara Isabella Burton

Dec. 1, 2020: Martha Bayles, Jamie Fly, and Peter Pomerantsev on “America’s Voice in the World. The Future of U.S. International Media.”

This Week at Persuasion

Half-Hearted Patriotism

Young Love of Country

Remember Martin Luther King Jr.?

For Americans to Lead, They Must Travel

Sophia Vahanvaty

Emma Cordover

Robert Bork III

The Best Way to Lose an Election

An Ode to the Outlaws

Antifa Is Real. And It’s Violent.

James Barnett

Nov. 25, 2020: Francis Fukuyama and Glenn Loury discuss “Race in America.”

Dressing for Dinner

Bullshistory and Philosoupy

They Tried to Cancel Me

This Week at Persuasion

Demography Is Not Destiny

Keeping the Republic

Democracy in Town

The Future of the Republican Party

My son fears seeming like a racist gamer. Must he stay woke at the joystick?

Is French Secularism the Reason for Those Terrorist Attacks? (No.)

Episode 6: Ian Buruma on America's Special Relationship with the UK

Episode 6: Ian Buruma on America's Special Relationship with the UK

Episode 6: Ian Buruma on America's Special Relationship with the UK

The Peace Illusion

Meatballs and Millionaires

"Decolonize" the Documentary?

Can American Democracy Recover after Trump?

Trump's Firehose of Falsehood

This Week at Persuasion

Do the Germans Really “Do it Better”?

Race for the Vaccine

Southeast Asia’s Balancing Act

No, Racism Is Not to Blame for Every Terror Attack in France

What is the "Successor Ideology"?

Episode 5: Edmund Fawcett on "Conservatism"

Episode 5: Edmund Fawcett on "Conservatism"

Episode 5: Edmund Fawcett on "Conservatism"

Theater of the Not-So-Absurd

Out of View, Autocrats Are Busy

A Moderate’s Manifesto

Blockchain and the Next Pandemic

A Leftist Dream Just Died

This Week at Persuasion

The Expansion of Corporate Responsibility

America Survived

The Good, the Brave, and the Ugly

They’re policing speech at my job. Do I shut up? Or scream?

What Biden's Win Tells Us

The Meaning of the Election. (And a Conversation about Why There Is So Little Social Mobility.)

Episode 4: Bookstack: Mark Salter on Senator John McCain’s Legacy

The Wonder of Trying

Prophet of Doom

Did the Woke Help Trump?

This Week at Persuasion

Rebuilding the Foundation

The Enduring Fierceness of American Politics

Picking Up The Pieces

Don't Panic!

Should We Trust the Polls This Time?

How to Fight for Democracy

Episode 3: Francis Fukuyama on the End of History and the Last Man

Episode 3: Francis Fukuyama on the End of History and the Last Man

Episode 3: Francis Fukuyama on the End of History and the Last Man

Re-Evaluating Jimmy Carter

A Political History of Backstabbing

Protect the Accused

This Week at Persuasion

To Compete With China, We Need the Liberal International Order

Controlling the Pandemic of Global Authoritarianism

My Dad, the Abortion Doctor. My Mom, the Evangelical.

The Weimarization of the American Republic

Solitude and Solidarity

Norman Ornstein on President Biden

I slept with my boss. Was he abusing his power?

Is American Democracy Dying?

How (Not) to Change Minds

Our Virtual Versailles

Episode 2: Lindsay M. Chervinsky on the Origins of the Presidential Cabinet

Tyrants Hate a Plague

The Birth of a Dangerous New World

What Missile-driven Competition with China Will Look Like

Living in Blackface

This Week at Persuasion

Stand Up for the Integrity of Our Elections!

Never Trump and the Neoconservative Persuasion

Broken News for Broken Britain

The Pandemic Election and the Outlook for American Democracy

Charles A. Kupchan on 'Isolationism'

Are Democracies Failing?

The Simpleton Manifesto

Democracy in Peril?

This Week at Persuasion

The Stakes of the Coming Election

My Son is No Sex Offender

Why Is America Still Friends with Saudi Arabia?

The Long History of the ‘NATO for Asia’ Idea

Newt Gingrich and Our Hyperpartisan Moment

Is It Sexual Harassment to Ask Out a Waitress?

Don't Pack the Court

This Week at Persuasion

Liberalism and Its Discontents

A Note from the Editors

Is It Wicked to Feel Glee Because the President Is Sick?

Should There Be A Billion Americans?

Please Stop Imposing American Views about Race on Us

Good Takes on a Bad Debate

How to Stop the Wildfires

This Week at Persuasion

They Don't Need No Education

Should my Son Pretend to Be Gay?

The Hate at the Heart of Conspiracy Theory

The Great Demographic Illusion

This Week at Persuasion

How to Persuade Your "Enemy"

Love Hurts

A Sorry Excuse

This Week at Persuasion

A Better Way to Handle Sexual Assault on Campus

How Do I Stop Being a TERF?

The Danger of Race Reductionism

This Week at Persuasion

The Arnold Amendment

What Would a Truly Integrated Society Look Like?

A 21st Century Exodus

What the Critics of Colorblindness Get Wrong

This Week at Persuasion

Why I Refuse to "Educate Myself"

Sane Advice for an Insane World

This Week at Persuasion

Lock Him Up?

The Hypocritical Oath

The Joy of Appropriation

A Better Anti-Racism

This Week at Persuasion

Hating the "Hateful"

Is It Time to Abandon Meritocracy? A Debate with Michael Sandel

No, the BMI Isn't Racist

This Week at Persuasion

The Cancel Culture Checklist

Why Do Diversity Programs Fail? (And How to Make them Work.)

This Week at Persuasion

Not Every Loathsome Government Is Anti-Democratic

Americans Are Self-Censoring at Record Rates

Reminder: Happy Hour at 5pm Eastern

Immigrants Are Far More Patriotic Than the Right Fears or the Left Hopes

There’s a Question My Confederate Ancestors Taught Me To Ask

This Week at Persuasion

Stand Up for the Wrongly Accused!

America’s Mission

A Taxonomy of Fear

This Week at Persuasion

Closing Hong Kong

Rhetorical Calvinball

The End of Democracy in Poland

Is it Racist for a White Man to Bounce a Brown Baby on His Lap?

First Events and Additions to the Board of Advisors

Social Injustice Warriors

A Better Remedy for Cancel Culture

The Purpose of Persuasion

The Courage of Our Convictions

Our Team

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