Sitemap - 2021 - Persuasion
A Race to the Bottom on Internet Censorship
🎧 Michael Ignatieff on How To Stay True to Liberal Values in Politics
Episode 48: Jason Riley on Thomas Sowell
Episode 48: Jason Riley on Thomas Sowell
Episode 48: Jason Riley on Thomas Sowell
The Unseen Side of “Cancel Culture”
We Need Christopher Hitchens More Than Ever
🎧 Jeannie Suk Gersen on the Importance of Due Process
The Future of Biden’s Democracy Agenda
Episode 47: Brendan Borrell on the Race to the Vaccine
Episode 47: Brendan Borrell on the race to the vaccine
Episode 47: Brendan Borrell on the race to the vaccine
The Collapse of Liberal Internationalism
🎧 John McWhorter on Why Woke Ideas Harm Minority Communities
James Bond, Served with a Twist—le Carré
Episode 46: Olivia Williams on the Savoy's Glamorous Tales
Episode 46: Olivia Williams on the Savoy's glamorous tales
Episode 46: Olivia Williams on the Savoy's glamorous tales
How To Keep Your Corporation Out of the Culture War
Four Horsemen against the Illiberal Apocalypse
The Shackling of the Progressive Mind
Building a Rocker Bogie Rover, Part II
Democracy in India: Down but Not Out
The Rise of Do-It-Yourself Religion
🎧 Garry Kasparov on Resisting Authoritarianism
We Can't Keep Taking Liberal Democracy for Granted
How Women From Different Generations Can Understand Each Other
🎧 Michael Powell on Race, Class, and Free Speech
The Rittenhouse Verdict Shouldn’t Have Been a Surprise
Episode 45: Bruce Jones on Naval Supremacy and Today’s Geopolitics
Episode 45: Bruce Jones on naval supremacy and today’s geopolitics
Episode 45: Bruce Jones on naval supremacy and today’s geopolitics
The New Face Of France’s Far Right
Not Germany’s Bob Dylan—He's Germany’s Wolf Biermann
More of the Same Won't Rescue Biden
🎧 Andrew Yang on Why Democrats Are in Crisis
It’s Time to Up Our Democracy Promotion Game
Episode 44: Fiona Hill on Political Dysfunction
Episode 44: Fiona Hill on political dysfunction
Episode 44: Fiona Hill on political dysfunction
Putting the Gini Back in the Bottle
Episode 43: Sarotte on the Post-Cold War Stalemate
Episode 43: Sarotte on the post-Cold War stalemate
Episode 43: Sarotte on the post-Cold War stalemate
Are Democracies Worse at Climate Adaptation?
The Dirty Little Secret: Government Works
A Very Bad Election for Progressives
🎧 Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China
History: The Dictator’s Plaything
November 5, 2021: "Black Classical Music" with Joseph Horowitz and Angel Gil-Ordóñez
Is the Climate Crisis Just Too Hot for Us to Handle?
Biden Was Wrong On Afghanistan
Biden Was Right On Afghanistan
🎧 Peter Singer On How To Reduce Suffering
Episode 42: Parag Khanna on Societal Upheaval
Episode 42: Parag Khanna on societal upheaval
Episode 42: Parag Khanna on societal upheaval
The Illiberal Roots of Liberalism
How We Make Real Progress on Climate Change
October 25, 2021: Katherine Zimmerman on "Finished with the Greater Middle East? Not so fast."
Why I Didn’t Apologize For That Yale Law School Email
🎧 Ross Douthat on the Trouble with Experts
The English Garden We Call the West
Episode 41: Matthew Sturgis on Oscar Wilde and Social Mores
Episode 41: Matthew Sturgis on Oscar Wilde and social mores
Episode 41: Matthew Sturgis on Oscar Wilde and social mores
Why I Oppose Removing a Statue of Thomas Jefferson
Bourdain: Man of Passions, Talent—and Heartache
How to Make College Admissions Fair
🎧 Francis Fukuyama’s Defense of Liberalism
General Raymond Odierno, a Soldier
Episode 40: Anne-Marie Slaughter on American Renewal
Should We Call the Whole Thing Off?
Episode 40: Anne-Marie Slaughter on American renewal
Episode 40: Anne-Marie Slaughter on American renewal
Commercial Interests Aren’t Enough To Save Free Speech
October 13: 2021: Mark Lilla on "Thomas Mann, Reflections."
To Influence Japan, China Tries Subtlety
The Long Shot Battle to Save Hungarian Democracy
October 12, 2021: Emily Estelle on "The jihadis you don't know about."
California Dreaming II: Democracy and Vetocracy
How to Fix Our Broken Relationship With COVID Math
🎧 Caitlin Flanagan on Free Speech and America’s Future
Forbidding Fruit: Apple TV+ Does Asimov
Editorial Cartooning Is in Danger
October 6, 2021: Jane Harman discusses her book, "Insanity Defense"
The Digital Wild West Needs a Sheriff
Americans, Don't Envy European Speech Codes!
🎧 Kwame Anthony Appiah: Rethinking Identity
Episode 39: Harold James on Political Terminology
Episode 39: Harold James on political terminology
Episode 39: Harold James on political terminology
Monomania Is Illiberal and Stupefying
State Constitutions as Political Technology
Our Institutions Keep Undermining Themselves
November 9, 2021: Mary Sarotte discusses her new book, "Not One Inch." Moderated by Chels Michta.
The Future of Ranked-Choice Voting
🎧 Elizabeth Bruenig on Religion, Liberalism, and Wokeness
Episode 38: H.R. McMaster on America's Future Battlegrounds
Episode 38: H.R. McMaster on America's future battlegrounds
Episode 38: H.R. McMaster on America's future battlegrounds
The Inescapable Alfred Hitchcock
The Illiberalism in Our Institutions
Darkening of the Strategic Skies
Continuing Liberty conference, September 20-22, 2021: "America in the World" with Robert B. Zoellick
🎧 Why Americans Fight Over History
Episode 37: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili on Afghanistan and State-Building
Episode 37: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili on Afghanistan and State-Building
Episode 37: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili on Afghanistan and State-Building
The Perils of Degentrification
There's No Unified Front Against China
🎧 "You Just Won't Understand!"
Episode 36: Toby Harnden on the CIA's Mission in Afghanistan
Bin Laden’s Posthumous Victory
Can Self-Government Survive the Next Convulsion?
🎧 Are We Too Divided to Be Patriotic?
“We’re not going to fix the problem of elitism by doing away with standards.”
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Justice
Can Democracy Survive the “Splinternet?”
September 1, 2021: Philip Zelikow and Francis Fukuyama in conversation on the September 11 attacks
Blaming Big Oil: Righteous and Wrong
August 30, 2021: Costica Bradatan and Ed Simon discuss “How Journalists Cover Faith.”
August 26, 2021: Jonathan Chait on "Liberal Liberalism vs. Left-Wing Authoritarianism"
John McWhorter: The Neoracists
🎧 Why We Need a Sane Republican Party
We’re Not All Running the Same Rat Race
Finding the Lives beneath the Ground
Watch Out for Falling Shrapnel
🎧 How (Not) to Think About Race
The Woke Pot and the MAGA Kettle
August 19, 2021: A conversation with film historian David Thomson and director Douglas McGrath
August 18, 2021: Timothy Garton Ash on "The Future of Liberalism." Moderated by William A. Galston
The Calamitous Fall of Afghanistan
Fifty Years Ago: A Landmark Day in Economic History
When Therapists Become Activists
The Purple Pill: Charlottesville in Retrospect and Prospect
The Afghanistan War Was a (Partial) Success
August 6, 2021: "A Night at the Movies" with Barry Jenkins and David Thomson
August 4, 2021: Peter Berkowitz discusses "The Clash within Liberal Democracy"
Episode 35: Peter Hartcher on Australia's China Challenge
Episode 35: Peter Hartcher on Australia's China Challenge
Episode 35: Peter Hartcher on Australia's China Challenge
Destruction and Hope in Portland
Can the Democrats Save Our Democracy?
Episode 34: Firmin DeBrabander on the Internet's Threat to Privacy
Episode 34: Firmin DeBrabander on the Internet's Threat to Privacy
Episode 34: Firmin DeBrabander on the Internet's Threat to Privacy
Don’t Drink from That Fire Hose!
July 21, 2021: Will Marshall on "Dems — then, now, and tomorrow"
How to Build a New Political Party
Episode 33: Shawna Kay Rodenberg on Growing Up in Kentucky
Episode 33: Shawna Kay Rodenberg on Growing Up in Kentucky
Episode 33: Shawna Kay Rodenberg on Growing Up in Kentucky
What Remains? Georg Lukács’ Dialectical Wager
July 12, 2021: Henry Sokolski on "Can Self-Government Survive the Next Convulsion?"
Episode 32: Gillian Tett's Anthropological Lens
Episode 32: Gillian Tett's Anthropological Lens
Episode 32: Gillian Tett's Anthropological Lens
The Supreme Court Isn't Broken
Fixing Health Care with the All-American Krankenkassen
What We Got Wrong (and Right) About COVID-19
Join Us for the Persuasion Festival!
When the Truths Aren’t So Self-Evident
An Immigrant's Case for Patriotism
Inflation Won't Just Hurt the Rich
Episode 31: Timothy Brennan on Edward Said
Episode 31: Timothy Brennan on Edward Said
Episode 31: Timothy Brennan on Edward Said
June 24, 2021: David Miliband on "The Age of Impunity"
Alliances and Their Discontents
Covid and Bureaucratic Autonomy
Dystopia Is Just around the Corner
Episode 30: Tevi Troy Looks at 70 Years of White House Intrigue
Episode 30: Tevi Troy Looks at 70 Years of White House Intrigue
Episode 30: Tevi Troy Looks at 70 Years of White House Intrigue
What Ever Happened to Flirting?
June 17, 2021: A conversation with John Bolton on "Core Interests and Alliances"
June 16, 2021: Tom Tugendhat and Toomas Hendrik Ilves discuss "Russia and Europe"
Defending Journalists against Gangsters
The Norm-Breaker vs. the Norm-Defender
Material Objects and Virtual Objects
🎧 An Optimist’s Vision of America
Episode 29: Michael Dobbs on Nixon's Fatal Flaws
Episode 29: Michael Dobbs on Nixon's Fatal Flaws
Episode 29: Michael Dobbs on Nixon's Fatal Flaws
Setting Sail on the Three Seas
Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda
The Empowering of the American Mind
🎧 James Carville on How Democrats Self-Sabotage
“We Had No Idea The Government Would Open Fire”
Episode 28: Susan Eisenhower on How Ike Led
Episode 28: Susan Eisenhower on How Ike Led
Episode 28: Susan Eisenhower on How Ike Led
Captain America Passes the Torch
Putin’s Climate Envoy Should Be Persona Non Grata
Democrats Can't Rely on Demographics Alone
As Democracy Goes, So Goes Climate
Texas Voters Don't Want DEI in the Classroom
May. 26, 2021: H.R. McMaster on "Interests and Alliances." Moderated by Sophia Gaston
Twitter's Other Free Speech Problem
May. 24, 2021: Françoise Mélonio on "The New Tocqueville"
Five Tactics for Undermining Democracy
Episode 27: Sean McMeekin's New Take on World War II
Episode 27: Sean McMeekin's New Take on World War II
Episode 27: Sean McMeekin's New Take on World War II
Faith, Hope, Love, and Ted Lasso
Weimar and Weltschmerz for the Beach
Don't Roll Back Due Process on Campus
Episode 26: Olivette Otele on the History of African Europeans
Episode 26: Olivette Otele on the history of African Europeans
Episode 26: Olivette Otele on the history of African Europeans
🎧 Would You Wave the Magic Wand?
A Deal with Three-fifths of a Devil
Six Steps to Save Global Democracy
Reviving Conservative Internationalism
What's Race Got to Do With It?
🎧 The Case For a Liberal Islam
Vernon Bogdanor on Britain's Wavering Connections to Europe
Episode 25: Vernon Bogdanor on Britain's Wavering Connections to Europe
Episode 25: Vernon Bogdanor on Britain's wavering connections to Europe
Episode 25: Vernon Bogdanor on Britain's wavering connections to Europe
The First Amendment Is Not a Suicide Pact
Free Black Thought: A Manifesto
Infrastructure, Governance, and Trust
Episode 24: Stephen Walker on the First Journey Into Space
Episode 24: Stephen Walker on the First Journey Into Space
Episode 24: Stephen Walker on the First Journey Into Space
Who Are You to Tell That Story?
Climate Change: Technology Is the Solution
A Highway in Montenegro and the Struggle with China
The Same Ol’ Same Ol’ Won’t Save Us
Building Infrastructure the American Way
Putting the Responsible “Self” Back in Self-Government
🎧 The Dangers of Bad Science and Simple Solutions
Episode 23: Lawrence J. Haas on the Kennedys' Approach to the World
Episode 23: Lawrence J. Haas on the Kennedys' Approach to the World
Episode 23: Lawrence J. Haas on the Kennedys' Approach to the World
In Praise of Industrial Policy
How to Get Real About Saving the Planet
Episode 22: Cristina Groeger on Education and Economic Disparity
Episode 22: Cristina Groeger on Education and Economic Disparity
Episode 22: Cristina Groeger on Education and Economic Disparity
No Change, Please, We're German
Apr. 8, 2021: Abubakar Siddique discusses "The Next Afghanistan." Moderated by Jay Tolson
Fighting the Last Free Speech War
Don’t Let the Woke Own Liberal Education
Apr. 5, 2021: Roya Hakakian on her new book, “A Beginner’s Guide to America”
Episode 21: Paula Marantz Cohen on Shakespeare and Empathy
Episode 21: Paula Marantz Cohen on Shakespeare and Empathy
Episode 21: Paula Marantz Cohen on Shakespeare and Empathy
Apr. 2, 2021: William A. Galston discusses "The Age of Resentment — And How To Build Back Better"
Britain: Land of Liberty No More
Democracy Is (Still) Worth Defending
Mar 30, 2021: Cancelled by China: A Conversation with Reinhard Bütikofer, moderated by Craig Kennedy
The Single Most Dangerous Place in the World
🎧 What The West Misses About China
Episode 20: Roya Hakakian's Immigrant Guide to America
Episode 20: Roya Hakakian's Immigrant Guide to America
Episode 20: Roya Hakakian's Immigrant Guide to America
Mar. 25, 2021: Michael McFaul on his three-part series in American Purpose
Surveilling Germany’s Right-Wing Populists
Mar. 22, 2021: Matt Pottinger on "strategic competition with China." Moderated by Jack Beyrer
Why Analog Is Better than Digital II: Losing Kodachrome
A Dangerous Attack on Academic Freedom
Episode 19: Ritchie Robertson on the Enlightenment, 1680-1790
Episode 19: Ritchie Robertson on the Enlightenment, 1680-1790
Episode 19: Ritchie Robertson on the Enlightenment, 1680-1790
And Then They Came for Dr. Seuss
Mar. 17, 2021: Henry Sokolski discusses "Dr. Strangelove’s New Passion: Precision-guided Mayhem."
Dr. Strangelove’s New Passion: Precision-Guided Mayhem
Why Analog is Better than Digital I: The Vinyl Revival
🎧 What You Miss About the World If You Only Study Students at Harvard
Mar. 11, 2021: Yael Tamir discusses with Peter Skerry "Harnessing Nationalism for Liberal Ends."
The Warped Vision of “Anti-Racism”
The Internet Platforms and Press Freedom
Mar. 8, 2021: Michael Green with Adam Garfinkle on China through Japan's eyes.
Episode 18: Richard Thompson Ford on Fashion, Law, and Social Change
Episode 18: Richard Thompson Ford on Fashion, Law, and Social Change
Episode 18: Richard Thompson Ford on Fashion, Law, and Social Change
David Bromwich: Milton on Censorship
If You Build It, They Will Come
Liar Liar First Amendment on Fire?
Silvio Berlusconi and the Decline of Western Civilization
Mar. 1, 2021: Joshua Muravchik on "Q and Conspiracy."
🎧 The Weaponization of Nostalgia
Feb 26, 2021: Richard Thompson Ford on his new book, “How the Laws of Fashion Made History.”
Episode 17: R. James Breiding on Small-Nation Success
Episode 17: R. James Breiding on Small-Nation Success
Episode 17: R. James Breiding on Small-Nation Success
Feb 25, 2021: Zena Hitz and Azar Nafisi on “The Rebirth of Conversation.”
When the “Violence” Isn't Violent
Technology, Freedom of Speech, and Rush Limbaugh
Ian Buruma: Racism & Enlightenment
🎧 How To Understand Your Enemy
Episode 16: Emma Rothschild’s Generational Portrait of France
Episode 16: Emma Rothschild’s Generational Portrait of France
Episode 16: Emma Rothschild’s Generational Portrait of France
Tribulations of the Second Trial
Feb 18, 2021: Lindsay M. Chervinsky and Craig Bruce Smith with Nicole Penn on George Washington
Patriotism’s Reclamation Project
Canceled? Welcome to Our World
Fake News and Conspiracy Theories
🎧 Why Do We Always Think We're Right?
Episode 15: Robert D. Kaplan on Humanitarian Bob Gersony
Episode 15: Robert D. Kaplan on Humanitarian Bob Gersony
Episode 15: Robert D. Kaplan on Humanitarian Bob Gersony
Democracy Dies in Disinformation
Can Free Speech Survive the Internet?
The Passing of a Quiet American
Episode 14: Dominique Kirchner Reill on Interwar Fascism in Fiume
Episode 14: Dominique Kirchner Reill on Interwar Fascism in Fiume
Episode 14: Dominique Kirchner Reill on Interwar Fascism in Fiume
Michael Kinsley: Against Impeachment
Feb. 4, 2021: Didi Kuo with Marc Plattner and Jan Surotchak discuss "Political Parties in Crisis"
China’s Transatlantic Wedge Strategy
Feb 3, 2021: Ryan Hanley discusses Adam Smith: "Character Is Not for Suckers."
What The Woke Don’t Get About the Old
Navalny: Putin is a “Thieving Little Man”
Why You Should Also Switch to Linux
Is Social Media to Blame for It All?
Jan. 29, 2021: Sheila A. Smith discusses "The Next Japan."
Episode 13: Kevin Kosar on Congressional Dysfunction
Episode 13: Kevin Kosar on Congressional Dysfunction
Episode 13: Kevin Kosar on Congressional Dysfunction
Idealpolitik Requires Realpolitik
Race Isn’t Just Black and White
Liberalism’s Future: A Symposium, continued
China’s Brutality Cannot Be Ignored
Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Liberalism’s Future: A Symposium
What the Old Don't Get About the Woke
The Left’s Due—and Responsibility
Religion, Freedom, and Prosperity
Can We Build a More Rational World?
Episode 12: Larry Diamond on Saving Democracy
Episode 12: Larry Diamond on Saving Democracy
Episode 12: Larry Diamond on Saving Democracy
The Making of the President, Sixty Years Ago
How Does “Brazil's Trump” Hold On?
Jan. 21, 2021: Yoshihide Soeya on “A View From Tokyo On U.S.-China Strategic Competition.”
14 Reasons that Democracy Survived
I dressed in blackface back in college. Can I atone?
🎧 How to Strengthen American Democracy
Jan. 15, 2021: Agnes Callard discusses "Anger and Politics."
Episode 11: Satia on Progress and Colonialism
Episode 11: Satia on Progress and Colonialism
Episode 11: Satia on Progress and Colonialism
Is It Wrong to Believe in Racial Progress?
Neoliberalism: The Rise and Fall
Episode 10: Ikenberry on Democracy
Episode 10: Ikenberry on Democracy
Episode 10: Ikenberry on Democracy
Heavy on Thought, Light on Faith
How Democracy Makes America Great
My family hates my politics. How do I respond? Fight or flight?