About this episode

The episode discusses a radical liberal agenda, Gen Z's political instincts, and rebuilding public-spiritedness in contemporary politics.

Francis Fukuyama, Linda Chavez, and Rachel Janfaza join Yascha Mounk to discuss what a radical liberal agenda might look like today. In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Linda Chavez, and Rachel Janfaza explore whether Gen Z’s political instincts are genuinely liberal, what a renewed liberalism needs to reclaim from the republican tradition, and how to rebuild a culture of public-spiritedness in an age of anti-establishment politics.  Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University and the founder of American Purpose. His latest book is Liberalism and Its Discontents. Linda Chavez is the Vice Chair of the Renew Democracy Initiative, founded by Garry Kasparov. She previously served in the Reagan administration and has been a syndicated columnist and political commentator for decades. Rachel Janfaza is the founder of Up and Up, where she researches and writes about the political beliefs and cultural attitudes of Gen Z. This conversation was recorded at the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference in Washington, D.C., which is organized by the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. If you…

People in this episode

Host: Yascha Mounk

Guests: Francis Fukuyama, Linda Chavez, Rachel Janfaza

Topics covered

• liberalism
• Gen Z
• political instincts
• public-spiritedness
• anti-establishment politics
• republican tradition

Keywords

• liberal agenda
• Gen Z politics
• public-spiritedness
• anti-establishment
• political beliefs
• cultural attitudes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stanford University, American Purpose, Renew Democracy Initiative, Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism

Books & works: Liberalism and Its Discontents

Places: Washington, D.C.

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