Sitemap - 2024 - Persuasion
Negativity Bias Isn't Going Away
Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China (from 2021)
Books We Loved Reading in 2024
Francis Fukuyama on the World in 2025
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?
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
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
There’s (Still) No Such Thing As Cultural Marxism
Confronting Our Autocrat-In-Waiting: Part I
There Is No Surplus Elite in America
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
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
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
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
Why America Became the Great Satan
How Persuasion Will Cover the Trump Presidency
The Crusade Against Expertise Part I
Our Election Coverage: Join Our Chat Tonight!
European Democracy Is Going Backwards
Shikha Dalmia on Leaving Libertarianism
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
Elon Musk Goes Full Conspiracist
Europe’s Center Is Losing On Immigration
How I Learned To Stop Criticizing Everything
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
North Korean Freedom Is Good for Everyone
Episode 151: Sean McMeekin on the Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Communism
"Am I Racist?" Is Part Of The Problem, Not The Solution
Charles Taylor on Identity and Modernity
The Wrong Way to Help Disabled Kids
For Many Iranians, Israel Is Not The Enemy
A People’s History of Free Speech
Ruxandra Teslo on What Elites Really Believe
Amanda Ripley on How to Survive Disaster
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
New York City Deserves Better Than Eric Adams
The GOP Turns Its Back on Global Democracy
The Egregious Republican Lie About Ohio’s Migrants
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
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
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
Scenes From The Literary Blacklist
The Enduring Wisdom of America's Founding Documents
The Unexpected Relief of Politics-As-Usual
Reflections on Right-Wing Cancel Culture
Raj Vinnakota on How to Stop Campus from Boiling Over
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
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
What's Really Wrong with the "Deep State"
Empty Credentialism is Hurting Medicine
Why You Should Feel Good About Liberalism
Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc.
Venezuela’s Fate Is in the Hands of Its Army
How to Think About Giorgia Meloni
Event: Summer Time and the Living Is Easy
A Dangerous Victory For Social Media Companies
Shalom Auslander on Self-Loathing and How to Overcome It
Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism
Starting Over in a Dangerous Time
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
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
Presidents Shouldn't Be Above the Law
To Make a People in the Eyes of the World
A Different Congressional Diagnosis
Yes, Moderate Conservatism Was A Thing
Biden Is No Longer Fit For Office
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?
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
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
Hopes for a Grand Bargain in the Middle East Are a Mirage
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
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
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
Deep Reading Will Save Your Soul
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
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
Episode 142: Diana McLain Smith on Bringing Americans Together
How The New York Times Went Woke
A Bout of Autocratic Whataboutism
Helen Joyce on Youth Gender Medicine
Against Mandatory DEI Statements
Episode 141: Adriana Carranca on the New Wave of Latin American Missionaries
The Canary in the Public Library
Episode 140: David L. Roll on President Harry Truman
Dear Media, Stop Taking Students Too Seriously
Can Congress Prevent Trump From Exiting NATO?
India’s Election is Eerily Quiet
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
Less European Butter, More Guns
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
Who Is Scoring, Who Is Losing?
Episode 137: Leah Hunt-Hendrix on the Power of Solidarity
The Importance of Getting the Full Picture
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
The Americans Who Long for Caesar
Bring Back The Culture of Debate!
Alexandra Hudson on Why Civility Matters
How to Fight Misinformation Without Censorship
The Future of American Sports Isn’t Pretty
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
Why the Oldest Hatred Persists
Jonathan Lynn on How Government Works (and "Yes, Minister")
Episode 136: Paul Starobin on the Russian Exiles
When Everything is Eugenics, Nothing Is
POSTPONED: Award-winning Poet Susan Brind Morrow on WATER Poems and Drawings
We’re Falling Into Trump’s Trap… Again
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
Cold War Spies and Authoritarian Lies
You're Thinking About Polarization All Wrong
Seeking Authority Rather Than Authoritarians
How Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism
What Independent Bookshops Really Sell
All Politics Is Now Media Criticism
Alex Byrne on the Trouble with Gender
You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
Episode 134: Maria Popova on Ukraine and Russia’s Diverging Paths
Moderate Republicans Continue to Betray Their Principles
Vadim Krasikov and the Geopolitics of Murder
Is China Capable of Attacking Taiwan?
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
Putin's Strike Against the World
What Shocked Me About the Culture at Yale
Francisco Toro on Guatemala’s Political Revolution
Pakistan and Indonesia Cast Their Vote
Episode 132: David Reynolds on Winston Churchill
The Stunning Effectiveness of Houthi Harassment
Let the American People See Trump’s Trials
Ricardo Hausmann on How Economies Grow
A Comeback For Merit In College Admissions
Episode 131: Joshua Green on the Populism of the Democratic Party
Isaiah Berlin and the Tragedy of Pluralism
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
Episode 130: Azam Ahmed on Mexico’s Violent Cartels
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?
Why Men Are Drifting to the Far Right
Ruy Teixeira on How the Democrats Lost the Working Class
America’s Families Are Not Okay
Raymond Arsenault on John Lewis
Episode 129: Raymond Arsenault on John Lewis
AI: Democracy's Ally or Enemy?
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
The Revolution Will Be Podcasted
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
Rob Henderson on Foster Care, Social Class and the New American Elite
The Economic Cost of Right-Wing Populism
Piracy Ripples Across the Globe
The Little Lady with the Snake Tongs
Why Opponents of American Support for Ukraine Are Mistaken
January 18: Bookstack Live Taping with Ray Arsenault
A Third-Party Presidential Candidate?
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
February 16: Life After Putin: Potential Scenarios for a Post-Authoritarian Russia
January 9: The Next America: Biden Vs. Trump, ft. Bill Kristol
The False Link Between Climate Change and Mass Migration
Some Lessons for Putin from Ancient Rome