The Good Fight

Claude Steele on the Hidden Stress of Diverse Spaces

Yascha Mounk and Claude Steele discuss why diversity can produce anxiety—and how it differs from prejudice.

Jul 21 • Yascha Mounk

1:01:16

The Good Fight Club: Refounding Liberalism, Gen Z’s Political Instincts, and a Watergate Ghost Story

Francis Fukuyama, Linda Chavez, and Rachel Janfaza join Yascha Mounk to discuss what a radical liberal agenda might look like today.

Jul 18 • Yascha Mounk

1:00:02

John Harpham on the Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

Yascha Mounk and John Harpham examine how early modern thinkers justified slavery long before modern theories of race took hold.

Jul 14 • Yascha Mounk

1:08:30

Deirdre McCloskey on What Really Caused the Industrial Revolution

Yascha Mounk and Deirdre McCloskey discuss why ideas, not capital accumulation, made the modern world rich.

Jul 11 • Yascha Mounk

1:27:12

Arvind Narayanan on Why AI Isn’t All That Revolutionary

Yascha Mounk and Arvind Narayanan discuss why the real transformation from AI will take decades rather than months—and what that means for how we should…

Jul 7 • Yascha Mounk

1:15:01

Ivan Krastev on Why America Has Lost Faith in Itself

Yascha Mounk and Ivan Krastev examine what the country’s founding ideals mean on its 250th anniversary.

Jul 4 • Yascha Mounk

1:07:13

Charles Fain Lehman on Why Cities Got Safer

Yascha Mounk and Charles Fain Lehman explore how strategic policing drove the decline in violent crime—and why Baltimore was left behind.

Jun 30 • Yascha Mounk

1:19:04

The Good Fight Club: Why the Center Left Is Losing, the Squad vs. the Median Voter, and How Patriotism Wins Elections

Matthew Yglesias, Claire Ainsley, and Yascha Mounk debate whether progressives have abandoned the working-class voters they once claimed to represent.

Jun 27 • Yascha Mounk

46:28

Mark Leonard on Whether Europe is Doomed

Yascha Mounk and Mark Leonard discuss how the West can defend itself without America.

Jun 23 • Yascha Mounk

58:07

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.

Jun 20 • Yascha Mounk

43:48

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.

Jun 16 • Yascha Mounk

1:24:43

David Bau on How—and Whether—Artificial Intelligence Thinks

Yascha Mounk and David Bau examine the mysterious internal processes that drive AI behavior—and why they may be fundamentally alien.

Jun 13 • Yascha Mounk

1:43:50

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