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Negativity Bias Isn't Going Away

Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China (from 2021)

Books We Loved Reading in 2024

America's Composer

Winter, Again

Francis Fukuyama on the World in 2025

The Cruelty Is the Point

This Week at Persuasion

The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction

The DOGE Death Star Must Be Stopped

Noah Smith on the Rise and Fall of "Neoliberalism"

Alice Evans on Why Equality Fails

The Biden Administration Must Act To Save Georgia

Argentina Is Responding to Shock Therapy

Will Artificial Intelligence Hit a Wall?

The German Model is Failing

Confronting Our Autocrat-In-Waiting: Part II

The Tragedy of Jordan Neely and Daniel Penny

Episode 155: Michael Mandelbaum on the Titans of the Twentieth Century

When Democracy’s Defenders Turn Into Its Gravediggers

This Week at Persuasion

Why I’ve Grown Skeptical Of Colorblindness

Richard Reeves on the Gender Gap

Democracies Have an Attention Span Problem

Once They Were My Captors. Now They Rule Syria

France Goes For Broke

There’s (Still) No Such Thing As Cultural Marxism

Gunfight in DOGE City

Confronting Our Autocrat-In-Waiting: Part I

There Is No Surplus Elite in America

This Week at Persuasion

Cass Sunstein on Campus Free Speech

South Koreans Must Not Let Their President's Failed Self-Coup Go to Waste

Don’t Believe That The American Dream Is Dead

Episode 154: Caitlin Rivers on the Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks

A New Paradigm For Assisted Dying

Why Thanksgiving Is My Favorite Holiday

Dear Journalists: Stop Trying to Save Democracy

What Trump Means for Europe

Eastern Europe Is In The Crosshairs

Melissa Chen on the "Singaporean Model"

You’re Thinking About Hurricanes All Wrong

Why Do the Soft Lothark Eat Their Own?

Democrats Must Discover Their Unique Selling Proposition

This Week at Persuasion

Ivan Krastev on The New Global Order

The Crusade Against Expertise Part II

Democrats Have An Empathy Problem of Their Own

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

“We’re Going On a Jew Hunt”

Freya India on How to Free the Anxious Generation

America’s Pre-Election Polls Were a Hot Mess (Again)

Episode 153: Hyrum Lewis on the Myth of Left and Right

The New Class Politics

Why America Became the Great Satan

This Week at Persuasion

How Persuasion Will Cover the Trump Presidency

A Letter To Elon Musk

The Crusade Against Expertise Part I

This Week at Persuasion

The Realignment is Real

Francis Fukuyama on Trump 47

An Unthinkable Plunge

The Dawn of the Trump Era

Our Election Coverage: Join Our Chat Tonight!

European Democracy Is Going Backwards

Shikha Dalmia on Leaving Libertarianism

The Sacred Art of Winging It

When Anti-Woke Becomes Pro-Trump

The Danger to American Democracy

It’s Not the Fascism That Should Bother Us

Episode 152: Admiral James Stavridis on the U.S. Navy, NATO, and the Human Story

From Vibes to Votes

This Week at Persuasion

Elon Musk Goes Full Conspiracist

Norbert Röttgen on Germany

Europe’s Center Is Losing On Immigration

The Long Road to Austin

Siloed Opinions

How I Learned To Stop Criticizing Everything

Resentful Hegemon

Time for Truth in Polling?

The Idiot’s Guide to Dominating American Politics

Four Big Myths about the Election (Part II)

Four Big Myths about the Election (Part I)

Why Is This Race So Damn Close?

Newly-Minted Nobel Prize Winner James Robinson on How Societies Thrive

This Week at Persuasion

Why I Am Not a PhD

The Problem With Solar

North Korean Freedom Is Good for Everyone

The Crisis of Trust

What Trump 2.0. Really Means

Episode 151: Sean McMeekin on the Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Communism

This Week at Persuasion

"Am I Racist?" Is Part Of The Problem, Not The Solution

Charles Taylor on Identity and Modernity

The Wrong Way to Help Disabled Kids

It’s The Economy, Stupid

This Week at Persuasion

Woke Is Here To Stay

For Many Iranians, Israel Is Not The Enemy

A People’s History of Free Speech

Ruxandra Teslo on What Elites Really Believe

What Changed After October 7

After Bretton Woods?

Amanda Ripley on How to Survive Disaster

Putin's Manpower Shortage

This Week at Persuasion

Trump Is Gearing Up for Lawfare

Episode 150: Marsha E. Barrett on the Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism

Israel Cannot Survive as a Pariah State

Happy Birthday To... The First Reaganite?

The Next Climate Conversation Is About Marine Clouds

Where Environmentalists Went Wrong

Timothy Snyder’s On Freedom

New York City Deserves Better Than Eric Adams

How To Fix DEI

The GOP Turns Its Back on Global Democracy

The Egregious Republican Lie About Ohio’s Migrants

This Week at Persuasion

Don’t Cancel People For What They Didn’t Say

Kamala Harris Needs To Get Out More

Musa Al-Gharbi on Why We Have Never Been Woke

An Exciting Update

Reflections on the New Encampment Culture

In Search of the Earth's Wild Places

Episode 149: Clara Bingham on How Women's Liberation Transformed America

The Problem with Effective Altruism

This Week at Persuasion

Ukraine Needs Help

Remembering September 17, 1939

The Silent Majority on Climate Change

The Mexican State is Being Vandalized

Alexandre Lefebvre on Liberalism as a Way of Life

Harris and Taiwan

Scenes From The Literary Blacklist

Who Was That Masked Man?

21 Observations About China

The Enduring Wisdom of America's Founding Documents

The Unexpected Relief of Politics-As-Usual

This Week at Persuasion

Reflections on Right-Wing Cancel Culture

Raj Vinnakota on How to Stop Campus from Boiling Over

The Female Hit Man

Why Kamala's Do-Nothing Approach Could Backfire

Episode 148: James Graham Wilson on America's Cold Warrior

Diversity Won't Make Your Company More (Or Less) Productive

James C. Scott on The Perils of State Power

Timur Kuran on Why We Lie About Our Beliefs

Douglas Vakoch on The Promise and Perils of Contacting Extraterrestrials

Idealists, Dupes, and Liars

Making Race Skin Deep

Why the Media Moves in Unison

Deep Reading Will Save Your Soul

Back to the Supreme Court of the 1930s

America’s Families Are Not Okay

Schedule F Can’t Be Beaten in the Courts

Big Tech Companies Have Free Speech Rights Too

Yes, You Do Have to Tolerate the Intolerant

The Curious Endurance of Atoms for Peace

This Week at Persuasion

What Populism Is—And Isn't

Equality Is Good, Actually

Liberal Soulcraft

Freddie deBoer on “Peak Woke”

What's Really Wrong with the "Deep State"

Haiti’s Deepening Night

Empty Credentialism is Hurting Medicine

This Week at Persuasion

Why You Should Feel Good About Liberalism

Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc.

Why Britain is Rioting

Venezuela’s Fate Is in the Hands of Its Army

The America of Yesterday

How to Think About Giorgia Meloni

Event: Summer Time and the Living Is Easy

This Week at Persuasion

A Fraudulent Election

Trump’s Most Radical Plan

Illiberal Liberalism

A Dangerous Victory For Social Media Companies

Shalom Auslander on Self-Loathing and How to Overcome It

Who Is an American?

Luxury Beliefs are Real

Riding Into the Sunset

This Week at Persuasion

Matthew Yglesias on Kamala

How Liberal Societies Learn

The Kamala Gamble

After Joe

Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism

Nuclear Is Back

Starting Over in a Dangerous Time

Overconfidence at the RNC

Vance the Convert

Rachel Kleinfeld on the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump and the Rise of Political Violence in America

This Is a Test for America

This Is a Test for America

Francis Fukuyama’s American Purpose Joins the Persuasion Family

How to Walk Back from the Brink

Elizabeth Anderson on Equality

A New Beginning for American Purpose

New York Accidentally Restarted the War on Drugs

A Better Approach to Race in Medicine

This Week at Persuasion

In France, the Far Left Is King

Francis Fukuyama on Global Chaos (and Why You Don't Need to Despair About It)

Episode 147: Louise Story and Ebony Reed on the Black-White Wealth Gap in America

British Politics Goes Continental

The Abject Misery of the UK

Presidents Shouldn't Be Above the Law

To Make a People in the Eyes of the World

This Week at Persuasion

A Different Congressional Diagnosis

Yes, Moderate Conservatism Was A Thing

Biden Is No Longer Fit For Office

Springsteen's U.S.A.

It's the Internet, Dummy!

Yuval Levin on the Coming Realignment

The Metamorphoses of Franz Kafka

Episode 146: Peter S. Goodman on How We Ran Out of Everything

How America Got Into This Omnishambles

The Night the Biden Presidency Ended

How America Got Into This Omnishambles

How COVID Broke Our Trust In Government

Iran's (Next) President—but the IRGC's First?

This Week at Persuasion

Nuclear Math

The God Divide Within the Heterodox Community

Troubling News From the Shit-Stirring Department

Simon Fanshawe on Merit and Diversity

Why American Purpose Must Thrive

Eurasian Erosion

Don’t Sanction Professors For Speaking Out

Episode 145: Michel Paradis on Eisenhower’s Enduring Legacy

What to Do About the Gender Divide

Journalism Needs Cultural Adjacency

The Devils Gone to Georgia

This Week at Persuasion

Hopes for a Grand Bargain in the Middle East Are a Mirage

Olivier Roy on France

The Myth of Low Black Self-Esteem

Episode 144: James Davison Hunter on Democracy, Solidarity, and the Future of America

Mario Soares, Portugal's Beacon for Democracy

This Week at Persuasion

No, You Don’t Have the Power to Stop Climate Change

The Best Government Agency You’ve Never Heard Of

Revisiting Bulgaria's Most Infamous Gulag

In Europe, Chaos Is the New Normal

Brad Wilcox on Why You Should Get Married

A Special Invitation

Music Just Changed Forever

Hollow Rebels

This Week at Persuasion

Why No One Will Save Sudan

A Man of Letters

The Supreme Court Is About to Decide the Future of Free Speech

Mexico’s New President Is An Enigma

Boredom at the End of History, Part II

William Galston on 2024 and Trump's Conviction

Israel, Palestine, and the Sub-Rational

Change and Opportunity at American Purpose

A Dollar for Democracy

This Week at Persuasion

Deep Reading Will Save Your Soul

The Art of the Warrior Class

Boredom at the End of History, Part I

Learning To Live In a World Where Trump Is Winning

Mexican Democracy Hangs In The Balance

Daryl Davis on Befriending the Klan

Episode 143: Sulmaan Wasif Khan on the Taiwan Standoff

Conservative Isolationism, Then and Now

What Britain’s Next Leader Can Teach Joe Biden

Canada’s Assault on Free Speech

Private Colleges Earn an F

How To Put a Country Back Together

Publishers Aren't in Trouble—Writers Are

Can America Regain Its Self-Confidence?

Nellie Bowles on How the Revolution Went Mainstream

Debating Trump Is A Mistake

Episode 142: Diana McLain Smith on Bringing Americans Together

Caring Isn't Enough

How The New York Times Went Woke

A Bout of Autocratic Whataboutism

This Week at Persuasion

History's First Draft

What’s Bugging Ron DeSantis

Welcome To Anti-Woke Hell

Save Georgia's Democracy

Helen Joyce on Youth Gender Medicine

Au Contraire, Macron

Against Mandatory DEI Statements

This Week at Persuasion

Episode 141: Adriana Carranca on the New Wave of Latin American Missionaries

The Test of the Institutions

Vuvuzela Democracy

Do No Harm–and More Good

Yes, Religion Can be Liberal

The Canary in the Public Library

Eboo Patel on Pluralism

A Church at War

Episode 140: David L. Roll on President Harry Truman

Dear Media, Stop Taking Students Too Seriously

Can Congress Prevent Trump From Exiting NATO?

This Week at Persuasion

India’s Election is Eerily Quiet

The Age of Cloud Capital

The Giants of the Economists’ Century

Mike Pesca on How the Media Got Polarized

Next Up: Authoritarian-Friendly AI

Episode 139: Nicholas Shakespeare on Ian Fleming

We Keep Failing the Blasphemy Test

The Representation Gap

Less European Butter, More Guns

This Week at Persuasion

What Was the American Jew?

Kant vs the Algorithm

Dare To Know

Kwame Anthony Appiah on the Right—and Wrong—Way for Universities to Handle Identity

A Reckoning Is Coming for the Democrats

Downstream: Saying Goodbye to Spotify

Episode 138: Seth D. Kaplan on America’s Fragile Neighborhoods

The People Will Save the Planet, Not the Courts

What Trump Might Do in Office

Investors to the Rescue?

Who Is Scoring, Who Is Losing?

Episode 137: Leah Hunt-Hendrix on the Power of Solidarity

This Week at Persuasion

Hide Your Pets

The Importance of Getting the Full Picture

Your Support Matters

Czech PM Fiala: Go Beyond Rhetoric

Vinay Prasad on What Went Wrong With COVID

Social Media, Not the Economy, is Harming Teen Mental Health

The Fight for a More Perfect Union

What Rush Hath Wrought

Oldest Trick in the Book

The Americans Who Long for Caesar

Dictators International

This Week at Persuasion

Imagine Defeat

Bring Back The Culture of Debate!

Alexandra Hudson on Why Civility Matters

America First, Europe Alone

How to Fight Misinformation Without Censorship

Let's Not Get It On

The Future of American Sports Isn’t Pretty

The Supremes Take on Trump

This Week at Persuasion

Waltzing With Putin

On Public Service

April 17: Bookstack Live Taping with Seth D. Kaplan

When Hatred of the Left Becomes Love for Putin

Jonathan Haidt on The Anxious Generation

What RFK—And the Libertarian Party—Have Become

The Girls We Left Behind

A Mid-August Fever Dream

Everyday Freedom

Why the Oldest Hatred Persists

This Week at Persuasion

Afghan Terror's Return

Ukraine’s Leadership Crisis

Jonathan Lynn on How Government Works (and "Yes, Minister")

Episode 136: Paul Starobin on the Russian Exiles

When Everything is Eugenics, Nothing Is

Kleptocracy at the Polls

The Gap in Today’s Journalism

The Mahlers in Manhattan

This Week at Persuasion

Ugh, Capitalism

How To Save a Democracy

POSTPONED: Award-winning Poet Susan Brind Morrow on WATER Poems and Drawings

Putin's Next War

We’re Falling Into Trump’s Trap… Again

Why Public Administration?

Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness

Polish and Czech Foreign Ministers Weigh In: More NATO Now!

How To Make Friends and Influence People

America's Military Recruitment Crisis

Episode 135: Ian Buruma on the Relevance of Spinoza

Why Iran's Woman Life Freedom Revolution Failed

Glad to the Brink of Fear

This Week at Persuasion

Cold War Spies and Authoritarian Lies

You're Thinking About Polarization All Wrong

Seeking Authority Rather Than Authoritarians

Ed Luce on America in 2024

How Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism

Letting Leaders Lead

Nail-biting in Europe

Viktor Orbán's Warm Welcome

This Week at Persuasion

What Independent Bookshops Really Sell

A Dangerous Cycle

All Politics Is Now Media Criticism

Lenin's Last Zealot

Alex Byrne on the Trouble with Gender

How Broken Is Academia?

You've Got to Be Carefully Taught

Episode 134: Maria Popova on Ukraine and Russia’s Diverging Paths

Russia's Rebels

Moderate Republicans Continue to Betray Their Principles

Wisdom from the Bloodlands

This Week at Persuasion

Vadim Krasikov and the Geopolitics of Murder

Is China Capable of Attacking Taiwan?

Comrade Culture

Larry Summers on What Went Wrong on Campus

Meet Indonesia’s New Strongman

Episode 133: Lorraine Daston on the History of Scientific Collaboration

Natan Sharansky on Navalny and Keeping Hope Alive

March 7: Diplomacy — The Art of Hostage Negotiation & the Science of Arms Control

This Week at Persuasion

Normalcy and Horror

Putin's Strike Against the World

What Shocked Me About the Culture at Yale

No Unimportant Lives

Honoring Navalny

What Navalny Represented

Francisco Toro on Guatemala’s Political Revolution

Why North Korea Survives

Pakistan and Indonesia Cast Their Vote

Episode 132: David Reynolds on Winston Churchill

This Week at Persuasion

The Stunning Effectiveness of Houthi Harassment

When I Was a Hostage

Learning from Lincoln

Merciless Iran

Let the American People See Trump’s Trials

Slovakian Two-Step

Ricardo Hausmann on How Economies Grow

A Comeback For Merit In College Admissions

Repair Amidst War

Episode 131: Joshua Green on the Populism of the Democratic Party

This Week at Persuasion

Isaiah Berlin and the Tragedy of Pluralism

Drumstick Diplomacy

Mirrors of Greatness

Crimea Realities

Liberal Practice: Rules for Speech on Campus

Martha Nussbaum on Living (and Eating) Morally

Germany Is Being Served Up on a Platter to the Far Right

Gilded Respite

Episode 130: Azam Ahmed on Mexico’s Violent Cartels

This Week at Persuasion

Robots Are No Substitute For A Social Life

Inspiration—and More Barbarism—in Belarus

What Do American Universities and Communist Political Systems Have in Common?

New Wave Dystopia

The Front Lines of Peace

Why Men Are Drifting to the Far Right

Not a Serious Country

March 4: Natan Sharansky on Ukraine, Gaza and the West’s Wider Struggle (Plus Putin’s Prisoners with Natan and Pavel Butorin)

Ruy Teixeira on How the Democrats Lost the Working Class

America’s Families Are Not Okay

Life After the Ghetto

What Biden Needs To Do To Win

Raymond Arsenault on John Lewis

Episode 129: Raymond Arsenault on John Lewis

AI: Democracy's Ally or Enemy?

This Week at Persuasion

Alsu, the KGB—and One Hundred Days Detained

Netflix Takes on a Lion of Democracy

A Guide for the Politically Homeless

What's Wrong with Liberalism: Theory

Albert Wu on Taiwan’s Past, Present and Future

January 24: The Next America: The New Hampshire Primary, ft. Bill Galston, Tom Edsall, Carla Anne Robbins

The Revolution Will Be Podcasted

The Fire Next Time

This Week at Persuasion

The Unlikely Showman

Taiwan's Tenuous Position

Episode 128: Joseph S. Nye Jr. on Postwar America

Guatemala Just Ran January 6th In Reverse

Economies of Scale, Part III: Power, Inequality, and Dependence

Taiwan Goes Its Own Way

Rob Henderson on Foster Care, Social Class and the New American Elite

The Economic Cost of Right-Wing Populism

What We Keep Fighting For

Piracy Ripples Across the Globe

Freedom's Sacrifices

The Little Lady with the Snake Tongs

Conservatism’s Path Not Taken

Why Opponents of American Support for Ukraine Are Mistaken

January 18: Bookstack Live Taping with Ray Arsenault

A Third-Party Presidential Candidate?

This Week at Persuasion

What’s Next for College Admissions?

Economies of Scale, Part II: The Division of Labor

Tyler Austin Harper on How to Fix American Universities

The Apparent Conflict Between Universal and Particular Language

Hacked in China

February 16: Life After Putin: Potential Scenarios for a Post-Authoritarian Russia

January 9: The Next America: Biden Vs. Trump, ft. Bill Kristol

Modest Colossus

The False Link Between Climate Change and Mass Migration

Some Lessons for Putin from Ancient Rome

Episode 127: Ganesh Sitaraman on Helping Flying Soar

The State of Global Democracy in 2024