Essays and conversations about big ideas that don't need a news hook. Click to read Yascha Mounk, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Yascha Mounk and Cass Sunstein discuss liberalism's critics on the right and left.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Tyler Cowen also discuss AI and the state of the world economy.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Musa Al-Gharbi discuss why so many members of elite groups like to pretend they’re oppressed.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Jonathan Haidt also discuss psychological differences between the left and the right.| Yascha Mounk
The same strengths that have powered China’s remarkable rise also explain its greatest weaknesses.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Arlie Hochschild discuss why white working class communities voted for Trump.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Steven Pinker, and Sabina Ćudić live at the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference!| Yascha Mounk
It was supposed to connect us to people near and far. Instead, it turned us into tribalist, neurotic homebodies.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and David Enoch discuss how to defend liberalism.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Christine Rosen discuss the societal consequences of always being online.| Yascha Mounk
Any attempt to understand China, and the challenge it poses to Western values, must start with an honest enumeration of its strengths.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Miles Taylor discuss “the adults in the room” during Trump’s first administration.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Thomas Chatterton Williams explore what the summer of 2020 showed about America.| yaschamounk.substack.com
The history of the world will be split into a pre-AI and a post-AI era. Too many people are still in denial.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Jesse Singal discuss whether the left can sort itself out.| Yascha Mounk
In this inaugural episode of The Good Fight’s panel format, Francis Fukuyama, Ivan Krastev, and Mona Charen join Yascha to make sense of the events of the last week.| Yascha Mounk
Too many are still willing to advocate censorship in the name of fighting misinformation.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Isaac Saul also discuss what recent rulings reveal about the nature of the Supreme Court.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams discuss fake news.| Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk and Steven Teles explore how to inspire voters to be YIMBYs.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Yascha Mounk and Luke Tryl also discuss the rise of Reform UK.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Yascha Mounk and Lenore Skenazy discuss why kids should take risks.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Yascha Mounk and Steve Stewart-Williams also discuss the impact of IQ on life outcomes.| yaschamounk.substack.com
The idea that the country’s political dysfunction can be fixed by embracing a new electoral system is a dangerous fantasy.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Please, DOGE, allow me to buy glasses and contacts without a prescription.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Yascha Mounk and Wolfgang Münchau discuss the failure of the German model.| yaschamounk.substack.com
And no one knows how to put him together again.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Mindset, not, ideology, is key to understanding how Trump rules—and why he won.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Substack is the home for great culture| yaschamounk.substack.com
The idea that the country’s political dysfunction can be fixed by embracing a new electoral system is a dangerous fantasy.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Germany is in its deepest crisis since World War II. Its leaders don’t seem to have any idea how to fix it.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Peter Turchin’s thesis that “elite overproduction” explains America’s instability is conceptually confused and empirically false.| yaschamounk.substack.com
We just need a better definition. Here’s mine.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Yascha Mounk and Matthew Yglesias discuss Kamala Harris' strengths and vulnerabilities, and what she needs to do to win.| yaschamounk.substack.com
Kamala Harris is likely to be the nominee. Here’s what she needs to do to win.| yaschamounk.substack.com
We are in danger of flunking it.| yaschamounk.substack.com
In this emergency podcast, Yascha Mounk and Rachel Kleinfeld discuss how to prevent a spiral of violence.| yaschamounk.substack.com
