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Yascha Mounk and Simon Sebag Montefiore discuss how the fall of the Ottoman Empire shaped the region we know today.
Some survey results on the uses of AI.
Dan Williams joins Yascha Mounk in London! Plus: Vancouver, D.C., and London groups!
Mark Carney has called for the nations to work together if they are to succeed. But will they?
It's refreshing when professors put aside their own viewpoints.
Democrats can slay the dragon without becoming it themselves.
Since the inception of the Islamic Republic, the police force has been a powerful tool of repression. Now recruits will be indoctrinated from a younger age.
Yascha Mounk and Shashank Joshi also discuss Trump's war in the Middle East and the differences between the United States and Europe.
On accelerationists and doomers.
As the extremes rise in Germany, the chancellor has lost all authority.
Perhaps he didn't want to be pictured alongside a Russian oligarch.
Yascha Mounk and Jerry Kaplan debate whether the existential risk from AI is overstated—and if so, what we should be worrying about instead.
Persuasion Vancouver is ready to launch! Plus, a London pub meet next Friday.
The southern border is a case in point.
Why students need to read the canon before anything else.
And why we should take the risk seriously.
What Thomas Jefferson knew.
Why Mark Carney knew what an ancient philosopher did not.
Yascha Mounk and Jacob Weisberg examine why so many powerful people and institutions capitulated to Trump the second time around.
It’s more likely than you think.
Yascha Mounk and Judith Dada also discuss why the tech sector is so behind in Europe—and how the continent can become dynamic again.
Sarah Longwell on The Good Fight! Plus, an excerpt from Francis Fukuyama’s new memoir.
The case of Poland.
A quarter of a century later, we’re still living with the populist furies unleashed by the tragedy.
A trendy idea is lethal to free speech.
Why universities need ideological diversity.
The story of an essay.
Yascha Mounk and Sarah Longwell discuss why the pro-democracy coalition keeps losing the narrative war—and how it can fight back.
