The Good Fight
"The Good Fight," the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can beat authoritarian populism.Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone.Email: goodfightpod@gmail.comTwitter: @Yascha_MounkWebsite: http://www.persuasion.community
Episodes
August 2, 2025 • 61 mins
Yascha Mounk and Thomas Chatterton Williams explore what the summer of 2020 showed about America.
Thomas Chatterton Williams is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Losing My Cool, Self-Portrait in Black and White, and Summer of Our Discontent. He is a visiting professor of humanities and senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, and a visiting fellow at AEI.
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July 30, 2025 • 64 mins
Jesse Singal is cohost of the podcast Blocked and Reported, author of the newsletter Singal-Minded, and a contributing writer at The Dispatch. His first book is The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills, and he is working on his second, which is about the American debate over youth gender medicine.
In this week’s episode, Yascha Mounk and Jesse Singal explore whether wokeness is over, the future of the Democrati...
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July 26, 2025 • 66 mins
This week, Yascha Mounk is joined by Mona Charen, Francis Fukuyama, and Ivan Krastev to discuss how the latest revelations about Epstein will affect Donald Trump, the Trump administration’s war on universities, Volodymyr Zelensky’s bill on anti-corruption agencies, and the recent attacks on the independence of the Fed.
Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and author, is Policy Editor of The Bulwark and host of two weekly podcasts: Th...
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July 23, 2025 • 76 mins
Isaac Saul is a politics reporter and the founder of Tangle, an independent, nonpartisan news outlet.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Isaac Saul discuss the importance of exploring both sides of an argument, whether Donald Trump’s executive overreach amounts to authoritarianism, and how to handle immigration.
Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay.
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July 19, 2025 • 46 mins
Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams discuss fake news.
Daniel Williams is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He writes the Conspicuous Cognition newsletter, which brings together philosophical insights and scientific research to examine the forces shaping contemporary society and politics.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams explore whether the term misinformation is defined too bro...
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July 16, 2025 • 61 mins
Steven Teles is a professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the co-author of a number of books, including The Captured Economy, Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites, and Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Steven Teles discuss what abundance means in practice, how it fits into a broader policy agenda, and the future o...
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July 12, 2025 • 66 mins
Yascha Mounk and Alex Thompson discuss who knew what—and when.
Alex Thompson is a national political correspondent for Axios and the co-author, with Jake Tapper, of Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Alex Thompson discuss when Biden’s mental state first became concerning, the cover up, and the motivations of Biden’s team and...
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July 9, 2025 • 43 mins
Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Martin Wolf discuss Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” the impact it will have on Trump’s supporters, and whether the United States is facing a looming economic crisis.
Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay.
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July 5, 2025 • 58 mins
Dean Spears and Michael Geruso are economists, demographers, and associate professors at the University of Texas at Austin. Their book After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People is out on July 8, 2025.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Dean Spears and Michael Geruso explore whether a higher population really impacts climate change, why more people on the planet means more geniuses, and how we can avoid...
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July 1, 2025 • 54 mins
Luke Tryl is the Executive Director of More in Common UK, where he leads the organization’s work on public opinion.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Luke Tryl discuss where Keir Starmer has gone wrong, the reasons behind the rise of Reform UK, and whether time’s up for the Conservative Party.
Note: This conversation was recorded on June 6, 2025.
Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay.
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June 28, 2025 • 33 mins
Yascha Mounk and Irshad Manji also discuss how to have dialogue with ideological opponents.
Irshad Manji is the founder of Moral Courage College, which equips people worldwide to turn heated issues into healthy conversations and sustained teamwork. Her latest book is Don’t Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars.
In this week’s episode, Yascha Mounk and Irshad Manji discuss how it feels to become a U.S. c...
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June 25, 2025 • 60 mins
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. His latest book is Liberalism and Its Discontents. He is also the author of the “Frankly Fukuyama” column, carried forward from American Purpose, at Persuasion.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama discuss what the U.S. strikes in Iran mean for global and domestic politics, to what extent Israel is risking its relationship wit...
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June 21, 2025 • 71 mins
Yascha Mounk and Peter Hessler describe how China has changed over the last 30 years–and where it might go next.
For more than a quarter of a century, Peter Hessler has been a staff writer for the New Yorker. In 1996, he joined the Peace Corps and taught English language and literature to college students in Fuling, a small city on the Yangtze River. In 2019, Hessler returned to China, teaching at Sichuan University during the pan...
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June 17, 2025 • 62 mins
Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic who writes about politics and culture. Her latest book, The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea, is out now.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Helen Lewis explore what our ideas of genius mean, whether you need to die young to be considered one—and why no one cares about geniuses with boring lives.
Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay.
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June 14, 2025 • 56 mins
Yascha Mounk and Lenore Skenazy discuss why kids should take risks.
After letting her 9-year-old ride the New York City subway alone—and creating a media firestorm—Lenore Skenazy wrote the book, “Free-Range Kids.” Lenore is also a co-founder of Let Grow.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Lenore Skenazy explore why parents are reluctant to let their children take risks, how unsupervised activities help children learn,...
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June 11, 2025 • 63 mins
Shashank Joshi is Defence Editor at The Economist, where he writes on a wide range of national security, defence and intelligence issues.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Shashank Joshi discuss how technology is changing warfare, the latest developments in Ukraine, and the future of Gaza.
Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay.
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June 7, 2025 • 52 mins
Yascha Mounk and Mark Lynas on how to avoid armageddon.
Mark Lynas is an author, campaigner and speaker. He is science advisor with the Climate Vulnerable Forum and policy lead with WePlanet, a pro-science environmental advocacy network active in over 20 countries. His latest book is Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Mark Lynas discuss how likely a nuclear war i...
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June 4, 2025 • 63 mins
David Leonhardt is an editorial director for New York Times Opinion.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and David Leonhardt discuss why the left is losing its appeal to the working classes in the United States and in Europe, the flaws in the Democratic Party’s approach to voters, and what U.S. Democrats can learn from the Social Democrats in Denmark.
Note: This interview was recorded on March 18, 2025.
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May 31, 2025 • 52 mins
Yascha Mounk and Quico Toro explore what’s holding environmentalists back.
Quico Toro is Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, a contributing editor at Persuasion, and writes the Substack One Percent Brighter.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Quico Toro discuss outdated ideas within environmentalism, why we need to decarbonize—and how technology can save us.
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May 28, 2025 • 71 mins
Steve Stewart-Williams is a professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, and author of The Ape That Understood the Universe (2018), Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life (2010), and The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter on Substack.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Steve Stewart-Williams explore the nature vs nurture debate within psychology, how much impact IQ has on an individual’s success in l...
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