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Mark Leonard on Why Europe is Doomed
Jun 23, 2026
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A Debate with Curtis Yarvin
Jun 20, 2026
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Samuel Moyn on Why Old People Are Ruining America
Jun 16, 2026
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Jun 13, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 | Mark Leonard on Why Europe is Doomed | Yascha Mounk and Mark Leonard discuss whether the West can defend itself without America. Mark Leonard is co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think–tank. His latest book is Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Mark Leonard discuss why Europe is behind, the global impact of China’s rise, and whether Europe can learn to defend itself without the United States. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! Spotify | Apple X: @Yascha_Mounk & @JoinPersuasion YouTube: Yascha Mounk, Persuasion LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | — | ||||||
| 6/20/26 |  A Debate with Curtis Yarvin | Curtis Yarvin, Minna Salami, and Yascha Mounk discuss whether we can ever be free in a liberal society in a discussion moderated by Roger Hearing. In this special episode of The Good Fight, recorded at the How The Light Gets In Festival, Roger Hearing moderates a debate between Curtis Yarvin, Minna Salami, and Yascha Mounk on whether liberalism can ever be neutral, what a truly free society would look like, and whether liberalism’s heyday is over. Find out more about the Institute of Arts and Ideas—and book tickets to this year’s How The Light Gets In Festival in September—here. Watch the video of the debate here. Roger Hearing is a broadcaster and journalist with over 30 years experience presenting and reporting for BBC News and Bloomberg. Minna Salami is an award-winning Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish author, cultural critic, and independent scholar based in London. She is the author of Can Feminism Be African?: A Most Paradoxical Question. Curtis Yarvin is a political blogger and software developer. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following ⁠⁠this link on your phone⁠⁠. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠ X: ⁠⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠Yascha Mounk⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Persuasion⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | — | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | Samuel Moyn on Why Old People Are Ruining America | Yascha Mounk and Sam Moyn also discuss whether some people deserve to have more votes than others. Samuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. His books include Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, The Last Utopia, and Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World. Cohost of the Digging a Hole podcast, he is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and many other publications. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Sam Moyn discuss whether a truly fair democracy might weigh different citizens’ votes differently, whether the emphasis on human rights have got us into the mess we’re in today, and to what extent our democracy is in danger from populism. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! Spotify | Apple X: @Yascha_Mounk & @JoinPersuasion YouTube: Yascha Mounk, Persuasion LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | — | ||||||
| 6/13/26 | David Bau on How—and Whether—Artificial Intelligence Thinks | Yascha Mounk and David Bau delve into the emerging science of AI interpretability and what we can learn from billions of neural signals. David Bau is Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and Director of the National Deep Inference Fabric, researching the emergent internal mechanisms of deep generative networks in both Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and David Bau discuss how AI models actually produce their results and reflect about problems, whether the “thinking” process that models show users reveals their authentic thought processes, and how researchers can decode the internal representations of neural networks to understand what information they contain and use. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following ⁠this link on your phone⁠. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Apple⁠ X: ⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠ & ⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠ YouTube: ⁠Yascha Mounk⁠, ⁠Persuasion⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | — | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | Rebecca Haw Allensworth on How Professional Licenses are Rigging the Game for Insiders | Yascha Mounk and Rebecca Haw Allensworth examine how professional licensing has become America’s most important—and most restrictive—regulatory institution. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! Spotify | Apple X: @Yascha_Mounk & @JoinPersuasion YouTube: Yascha Mounk, Persuasion LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | — | ||||||
| 6/6/26 | Steve Stewart-Williams on Sex Differences and Human Nature | Yascha Mounk and Steve Stewart-Williams examine what science reveals about biological and psychological differences between men and women. Steve Stewart-Williams is a professor of Psychology at the University of Nottingham’s Malaysia campus and runs The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter. His latest book is A Billion Years of Sex Differences. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Steve Stewart-Williams discuss why women and men are more similar than is often thought and what the real sex differences between men and women are, from casual sex to career choices. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following ⁠this link on your phone⁠. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Apple⁠ | ⁠Google⁠ X: ⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠ & ⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠ YouTube: ⁠Yascha Mounk⁠, ⁠Persuasion⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | — | ||||||
| 6/2/26 | Jeremiah Johnson on Why Gen Z Isn’t Actually Doomed | Yascha Mounk and Jeremiah Johnson examine the disconnect between economic data and public sentiment about young Americans’ prospects. Jeremiah Johnson is the co-founder of the Center for New Liberalism. He hosts the New Liberal Podcast and writes at Infinite Scroll. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jeremiah Johnson discuss why young Americans think the economy is worse than it actually is, whether social media has made us permanently pessimistic about institutions, and how elite failures are now exposed in real time. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google X: @Yascha_Mounk & @JoinPersuasion YouTube: Yascha Mounk, Persuasion LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | — | ||||||
| 5/30/26 | Kathryn Paige Harden on How Genetics Shapes Human Behavior✨ | geneticshuman behavior+3 | Kathryn Paige Harden | University of Texas at AustinOriginal Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness | — | geneticshuman behavior+5 | — | 1h 01m 02s | |
| 5/26/26 | H.W. Brands on the Making of George Washington✨ | George WashingtonU.S. history+3 | H.W. Brands | University of Texas at AustinAmerican Patriarch: The Life of George Washington | — | George WashingtonH.W. Brands+3 | — | 1h 14m 59s | |
| 5/23/26 | James Traub on Why American Classrooms Are Failing Democracy✨ | educationprogressive teaching methods+4 | James Traub | Council on Foreign RelationsNew York Institute For The Humanities+1 | — | American classroomsdemocracy+4 | — | 51m 37s | |
| 5/19/26 | Marc Lipsitch on Playing Pandemic Roulette in the Lab✨ | pandemic researchgain-of-function research+5 | Marc Lipsitch | Stanford UniversityPersuasion Community+4 | — | pandemicgain-of-function+5 | — | 1h 08m 23s | |
| 5/16/26 | The Good Fight Club: The Vibe Shift That Wasn’t, White Identity Politics, and “When They Go Low, We Go Low&#✨ | Trump's cultural revolutionwhite identity politics+3 | — | Good ConflictThe Atlantic+4 | — | Trumpcultural revolution+3 | — | 48m 19s | |
| 5/12/26 | Al Roth on Why People Should Be Free to Sell Their Kidneys✨ | economicsorgan donation+4 | Al Roth | Stanford UniversityHarvard University+1 | — | kidney salesNobel Prize+3 | — | 59m 58s | |
| 5/9/26 | Timothy Garton Ash on Europe’s Political Fragmentation✨ | political fragmentationpopulism+5 | Timothy Garton Ash | New AmericaHomelands: A Personal History of Europe+1 | BritainEurope | politicsEurope+6 | — | 1h 10m 44s | |
| 5/5/26 | Laurenz Guenther on the Representation Gap in Politics✨ | representation gappolitical elites+4 | Laurenz Guenther | Toulouse School of EconomicsInstitute for European Policymaking+2 | — | representationpolitics+5 | — | 53m 30s | |
| 5/2/26 | Lant Pritchett on Why Foreign Aid Misses the Point✨ | foreign aiddevelopment+4 | Lant Pritchett | London School of EconomicsLabor Mobility Partnerships | Idaho | foreign aiddevelopment economist+4 | — | 1h 07m 50s | |
| 4/28/26 | David Bromwich on Why Americans Have Lost Faith in Universities✨ | higher educationgrade inflation+4 | David Bromwich | Yale UniversityHazlitt: the Mind of a Critic+3 | — | universitiestrust+5 | — | 58m 06s | |
| 4/25/26 | Luis Garicano on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence✨ | Artificial IntelligenceEconomics+3 | Luis Garicano | London School of Economics | — | AIautomation+3 | — | 1h 05m 56s | |
| 4/21/26 | Jacob Mchangama on the Global Free Speech Recession✨ | free speechdemocracy+3 | Jacob Mchangama | The Future of Free SpeechVanderbilt University+2 | — | free speechdemocracy+3 | — | 50m 42s | |
| 4/18/26 | Michael Shermer on Truth and Conspiracy✨ | conspiracy theoriesfree speech+3 | Michael Shermer | Skeptic magazineTruth: What it is, How to Find it, Why it Still Matters | — | conspiracy theoriestruth+3 | — | 54m 20s | |
| 4/14/26 | Ivan Krastev on Why Even Dictators Can’t Escape Democracy✨ | democracyauthoritarianism+4 | Ivan Krastev | Centre for Liberal StrategiesInstitute for Human Sciences | HungaryIran | democracyauthoritarianism+4 | — | 56m 41s | |
| 4/11/26 | Andrés Velasco on Oil Shocks and Financial Crises✨ | energy crisisfinancial markets+3 | Andrés Velasco | London School of Economics and Political ScienceNew America | Middle East | oil shocksfinancial crises+3 | — | 55m 41s | |
| 4/7/26 | Ruy Teixeira on What the Liberal Patriot Closure Says About the Center Left✨ | Democratic Partyworking-class voters+4 | Ruy Teixeira | American Enterprise InstituteThe Liberal Patriot+1 | — | Democratic Partyworking-class+5 | — | 55m 21s | |
| 4/7/26 | Kathleen Stock on the Case Against Assisted Death✨ | assisted deathmedically assisted suicide+3 | Kathleen Stock | UnHerdThe Sunday Times+2 | — | assisted dyingliberal arguments+3 | — | 54m 40s | |
| 4/4/26 | Sebastian Mallaby on AI Safety and the Race for Superintelligence✨ | AI SafetySuperintelligence+3 | Sebastian Mallaby | Council on Foreign RelationsFinancial Times+1 | ChinaUnited States | AISuperintelligence+5 | — | 53m 08s | |
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