The Good Fight
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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@...
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Damon Linker on Why Trump 2.0 Is More Destructive Than Anyone Expected
Damon Linker writes the Substack newsletter “Notes from the Middleground.” He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Unive...
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.
Ian Bassin is co-founder and Executive Dir...
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 digni...
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.
The Good Fight Club: Maduro’s Capture, Trump’s Foreign Policy Vision, and the Future of American Power
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Amanda Ripley, and George Packer examine the Trump administration’s capture of Nicolás Ma...
Ivan Krastev on 2026
Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienn...
Francis Fukuyama on 2025
Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama look back at this year—and make predictions for 2026.
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior...
Kelly Born on All the Ways AI Is Changing Politics
Kelly Born is the founding director of the Packard Foundation’s Democracy, Rights, and Governance initiative.
In this week’s conversation...
The Good Fight Club: Can Europe Control Its Fate?
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Timothy Garton Ash, Sabina Ćudić, and Nathalie Tocci explore the relationship between the United States and...
Jill Lepore on Why We Should Amend the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and professor of law at Harvard Law School. She is also...
Richard Thaler on Why People are Much More Irrational than Economists Believe
Richard Thaler is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth Schoo...
Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths
Abigail Marsh is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Georgetown University.
In...
Sven Beckert on How Capitalism Made the Modern World
Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. His most recent book is Capitalism: A Global History.
In this week...
Dan Wang on China and the United States
Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and author of Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future.
In this wee...
Nate Soares on Why AI Could Kill Us All
Nate Soares is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author, with Eliezer Yudkowsky, of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies:...
The Good Fight Club: A Warm Welcome for MBS, the Future of MAGA, and Democrat Infighting
Edward Luce, Russell Muirhead, Lauren Harper Pope, and Yascha Mounk on this week’s news.
In this week’s conversation, Ed Luce, Russ Muirh...
James Loxton on Democracies and Dictators
James Loxton is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introduction...
William MacAskill on Effective Altruism
Yascha Mounk and William MacAskill also discuss artificial intelligence.
William MacAskill is a moral philosopher and cofounder of the ef...
Shadi Hamid on Why We Need American Power
Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Hamid’s ne...
George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times
Yascha Mounk and George Packer discuss autocracy in literature and real life.
George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer a...
The Good Fight Club: Mayor Mamdani, the Crackup at Heritage, and the Death of Dick Cheney
In this conversation, Sam Kahn, Mike Pesca, Christine Rosen, and Yascha Mounk discuss what the election results mean for the direction of the Democrat...
Joseph Heath on the Death of Marxism
Joseph Heath is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Trudeau Foun...
The Good Fight Club: Mamdani Mania, the Neverending Shutdown, and the Trump-Xi Summit
Richard Aldous, Sabina Ćudić, and Damon Linker join Yascha Mounk to dissect this week’s news.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk,...
Geoffrey Hinton on Artificial Intelligence
Yascha Mounk and Geoffrey Hinton discuss how AI works—and why it’s a risk.
Geoffrey Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scie...
The Good Fight Club: Trump’s New Ballroom, a Looming Attack on Venezuela, and Why Social Media Explains the Rise of Populism
Francis Fukuyama, Mona Charen, and Yascha Mounk dissect this week’s news.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama and...
Lulu Meservey on How Media Has Changed
Lulu Cheng Meservey is the founder of Rostra, advocate of going direct, and writer of Flack.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk an...
Randall Kennedy on Racism in America
Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of rac...
Quico Toro on Charlatans
Yascha Mounk and Quico Toro explore why we fall for them—and how to protect ourselves.
Quico Toro is a contributing editor at Persuasion,...
Bret Stephens on Why the Democrats Are Despairing
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Bret Stephens is an opinion columnist for The New York T...
The Good Fight Club: Gaza Ceasefire, U.S. Government Shutdown, and America’s Slouch Towards Autocracy
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Garry Kasparov, Russ Muirhead, and Quico Toro discuss the ceasefire in Gaza, the impact o...
Oren Harman on the Magic of Metamorphosis
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Oren Harman is a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem I...
David French on The Mess We’re In
Yascha Mounk and David French have a therapy session about politics.
David French is a columnist for The New York Times. His most recent...
The Good Fight Club: Who’s a Hypocrite About Free Speech?
In this episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Renée DiResta, Jacob Mchangama, and Jonathan Rauch discuss threats to free speech under Joe Bide...
Quentin Skinner on Liberty
Yascha Mounk and Quentin Skinner discuss whether the liberal conception of freedom is overly narrow.
Quentin Skinner is the Emeritus Prof...
Justin Marozzi on Slavery in the Islamic World
Justin Marozzi is a historian and journalist who has spent most of his professional life living and working in the Muslim world. His latest book is Ca...
David Bau on How Artificial Intelligence Works
David Bau is Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and Director of the National Deep Inference Fabric, researching the emergent internal mech...
Katie Herzog on Drinking Your Way Sober
Yascha Mounk and Katie Herzog discuss how to treat alcoholism.
Katie Herzog is the co-host of the podcast Blocked and Reported and the au...
The Good Fight Club: Hounding Political Opponents, Misinformation, and Autism
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Sabina Ćudić, and Dan Williams discuss Donald Trump’s firing of a federal prosecutor and...
Randi Weingarten on the State of America’s Public Schools
Yascha Mounk and Randi Weingarten also discuss whether teachers unions are to blame for prolonged school closures during the pandemic.
Ra...
The Good Fight Club: Populism in the UK, Threats to Free Speech, and the Future of the Middle East
A live recording of The Good Fight Club in London!
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk is joined by Fraser Nelson...