Archive - Yascha Mounk

Kathleen Stock on the Case Against Assisted Death

Yascha Mounk and Kathleen Stock discuss whether liberal arguments for medically assisted suicide fail to hold up under scrutiny.

23 hrs ago • Yascha Mounk

1:06:39

Sebastian Mallaby on AI Safety and the Race for Superintelligence

Yascha Mounk and Sebastian Mallaby discuss why tech leaders both fear and accelerate dangerous AI development, and whether open-source models pose…

Apr 4 • Yascha Mounk

1:12:12

March 2026

Ruy Teixeira on What the Liberal Patriot Closure Says About the Center Left

Yascha Mounk and Ruy Teixeira examine how the Democratic Party’s cultural evolution drove away working-class voters—and ask whether it may be too late…

Mar 31 • Yascha Mounk

1:08:05

David Autor on the Scars That Money Can’t Heal

Yascha Mounk and David Autor explore why you can’t compensate workers for lost dignity with a check—and what that means for future economic shocks.

Mar 28 • Yascha Mounk

1:03:12

David Goodhart on Why the Educated Elite Lost Touch with Democracy

Yascha Mounk and David Goodhart explore how the domination of mobile, university-educated “anywheres” sparked the populist revolt.

Mar 24 • Yascha Mounk

1:14:52

Shashank Joshi on Why the War in the Middle East Won’t End Anytime Soon

Yascha Mounk and Shashank Joshi examine whether the United States and Israel are achieving their strategic objectives in the Middle East.

Mar 21 • Yascha Mounk

49:36

A Response to "The Bourgeoisie Has Switched Sides"

Michael Lind on the two types of bourgeoisie.

Mar 19 • Michael Lind and Yascha Mounk

Ibram X. Kendi on Great Replacement Theory

Yascha Mounk and Ibram X. Kendi also discuss anti-racism, equity, and education.

Mar 18 • Yascha Mounk

1:50:29

Adrian Wooldridge on the Lost Genius of the Political Center

Yascha Mounk and Adrian Wooldridge explore how liberalism reinvented itself through past crises—and what that means for its survival today.

Mar 14 • Yascha Mounk

1:13:34

The Bourgeoisie Has Switched Sides

What happens when elites all believe the same thing.

Mar 11 • Yascha Mounk

A Very Brief Interview with Klaus Schwab

The founder of the World Economic Forum asked me for a blurb. I offered him an interview. 20 minutes in, he cut it short.

Mar 10 • Yascha Mounk

21:47

Dean Ball on Who Should Control AI

Yascha Mounk and Dean Ball examine how the fight over autonomous weapons and mass surveillance reveals the impossible choices facing American AI policy.

Mar 7 • Yascha Mounk

1:34:56

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