Podcast: The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk

Daniel Diermeier on Why Universities Are Their Own Worst Enemies

Yascha Mounk and Daniel Diermeier examine how elite institutions created the backlash that now threatens their future.

5 hrs ago • Yascha Mounk

1:09:10

C. Thi Nguyen on Why Measuring Everything Ruins Everything

Yascha Mounk and C. Thi Nguyen examine what happens when life becomes a game—and the game stops being fun.

Feb 10 • Yascha Mounk

1:25:43

Jung Chang on A Personal History of China

Yascha Mounk and Jung Chang explore what individual narratives can tell us about China’s past and present.

Feb 7 • Yascha Mounk

1:14:41

Ruud Koopmans on Immigration and Integration in Europe

Yascha Mounk and Ruud Koopmans discuss why European integration differs from the American experience.

Feb 3 • Yascha Mounk

1:29:35

Martin Wolf on Why Trump’s Economic Revolution Never Happened

Yascha Mounk and Martin Wolf also discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the economy—and humanity.

Jan 31 • Yascha Mounk

1:11:42

Atul Gawande on Medicine and Mortality

Yascha Mounk and Atul Gawande discuss how a simple system can improve patient outcomes.

Jan 27 • Yascha Mounk

1:22:10

Gašper Beguš on Why Language Doesn’t Make Humans Special

Yascha Mounk and Gašper Beguš also talk about what whale communication and the recent progress on AI tell us about the human brain.

Jan 24 • Yascha Mounk

1:17:34

Damon Linker on Why Trump 2.0 Is More Destructive Than Anyone Expected

Yascha Mounk and Damon Linker explore how this administration has surpassed even the pessimists’ predictions.

Jan 20 • Yascha Mounk

1:16:16

Ian Bassin on How to Save American Democracy from Trump

Yascha Mounk and Ian Bassin also report on what they got right—and wrong—over the past decade.

Jan 17 • Yascha Mounk

1:17:58

Rebecca Goldstein on Why Humans Need to Matter

Yascha Mounk and Rebecca Goldstein debate whether our desperate need for significance is a flaw we should overcome—or an essential part of human…

Jan 13 • Yascha Mounk

1:17:12

Scott Anderson on Why Iran’s Real Revolution Might Be Coming

Yascha Mounk and Scott Anderson discuss how economic collapse has created the conditions for regime change—and what this could mean for the country.

Jan 10 • Yascha Mounk

1:44:12

The Good Fight Club: Maduro’s Capture, Trump’s Foreign Policy Vision, and the Future of American Power

Amanda Ripley, George Packer, and Yascha Mounk examine the dangerous implications of the administration’s latest foreign policy moves.

Jan 8 • Yascha Mounk

1:04:52

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