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Yascha Mounk and Daron Acemoglu also discuss China.| Persuasion
Poland is laying down a playbook other countries may be forced to follow.| Persuasion
Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Mona Charen, and Russell Muirhead tackle this week’s big news.| Persuasion
When the president wants to slit the nation’s throat, the least we can do is not hand him the blade.| Persuasion
Yascha Mounk and Cass Sunstein discuss liberalism's critics on the right and left.| Persuasion
The summer of five years ago can help us explain—and overcome—America’s present.| Persuasion
Yascha Mounk and Tyler Cowen also discuss AI and the state of the world economy.| Persuasion
Yascha Mounk and Musa Al-Gharbi discuss why so many members of elite groups like to pretend they’re oppressed.| Persuasion
Yascha Mounk and Jonathan Haidt also discuss psychological differences between the left and the right.| www.persuasion.community
Yascha Mounk and Arlie Hochschild discuss why white working class communities voted for Trump.| Persuasion
Reflections on the deeply un-American trans service ban.| Persuasion
Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Steven Pinker, and Sabina Ćudić live at the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference!| Persuasion
In unprecedented ways, chatbots reconfigure our inner lives.| Persuasion
Hang out with Persuasion readers in New York! Plus, Christine Rosen on The Good Fight.| Persuasion
It was supposed to connect us to people near and far. Instead, it turned us into tribalist, neurotic homebodies.| Persuasion
Francis Fukuyama in the latest of our series “Why Liberalism.”| Persuasion
Yascha Mounk and David Enoch discuss how to defend liberalism.| Persuasion
Conspiracy theories have become an essential part of being a conservative.| Persuasion
Yascha Mounk and Christine Rosen discuss the societal consequences of always being online.| Persuasion
Any attempt to understand China, and the challenge it poses to Western values, must start with an honest enumeration of its strengths.| Persuasion
Trump’s campaign against his perceived enemies is just beginning.| Persuasion
Please stop enabling this administration’s kamikaze foreign policy.| Persuasion
Hang out with the Persuasion team in Washington, D.C.! Plus, a meet-up in New York!| Persuasion
Putin is losing his hold over traditional allies.| Persuasion
Whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?| www.persuasion.community
A reflection on the life of the mind in the era of artificial intelligence.| www.persuasion.community
On Darwin, abuse, and Costanza politics.| www.persuasion.community
In a podcast, the Obamas offer a productive framing for the men’s crisis.| www.persuasion.community
To really put America first, the United States must build partnerships and cooperation.| www.persuasion.community
If robots can replace human connection, you need better friends.| www.persuasion.community
Boomers have encouraged a legacy of violent protest. That gets the ’60s all wrong.| www.persuasion.community
Taking stock of Trump’s radical experiment with executive power.| www.persuasion.community
As the country slides into full authoritarianism, it is time for the international community to act.| www.persuasion.community
He proposes to further upend Republican tradition—and liberal democratic norms.| www.persuasion.community
Yascha Mounk and Irshad Manji also discuss how to have dialogue with ideological opponents.| www.persuasion.community
Artificial intelligence can't compete with human creativity.| www.persuasion.community
Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama also discuss whether the U.S. strikes will give Trump a popularity boost.| www.persuasion.community
What we can learn from studying other authoritarian leaders.| www.persuasion.community
An account of the past three months of life in Kyiv.| www.persuasion.community
A report from Ukraine in the age of drone warfare.| www.persuasion.community
Trump’s policies amount to the suicide of a superpower.| www.persuasion.community
You have nothing to lose but your chains.| www.persuasion.community
His choice of partners is deeply concerning.| www.persuasion.community
The community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for. Click to read Persuasion, by Yascha Mounk, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.persuasion.community
Purging career civil servants will not make government more democratic.| www.persuasion.community
Francis Fukuyama examines the dysfunctions of the public sector.| www.persuasion.community
When Trump finishes gutting the administrative state, there will be no one left to govern.| www.persuasion.community
The war is in a critical phase.| www.persuasion.community
He wants to reconstruct America’s sphere of influence along 19th century lines.| www.persuasion.community
🎧 | Yascha Mounk talks with Yevgenia Albats, whose magazine was recently blocked by the Putin government, about escalating pressure at home| www.persuasion.community
Substack is the home for great culture| www.persuasion.community
American Purpose at Persuasion is a continuation of the magazine, media project, and intellectual community chaired by Francis Fukuyama. Includes Larry Diamond's "Diamond on Democracy" column and the "Bookstack" podcast with Richard Aldous. Click to read Persuasion, by Yascha Mounk, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.persuasion.community
Students are not what they used to be. The crisis is worse than you think.| www.persuasion.community
It’s time to take action.| www.persuasion.community
Trump plans to strip, purge, and defy the courts. Here’s what that demands.| www.persuasion.community
How I stopped worrying and embraced European strategic autonomy.| www.persuasion.community
Norwegians have been comfortably rich and safe—until now.| www.persuasion.community
Why removing “for cause” protections would return us to the 19th century spoils system.| www.persuasion.community
America just switched sides in the Ukraine war.| www.persuasion.community
Biweekly conversations between Richard Aldous, Bard College professor and distinguished historian, and authors on their newest books. Click to read Persuasion, by Yascha Mounk, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.persuasion.community
Recent efforts to silence “Zionist” practitioners show how far we have to go.| Persuasion
And it’s much worse than you thought.| www.persuasion.community
Francis Fukuyama shares a few of the many things on his mind. Click to read Persuasion, by Yascha Mounk, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.persuasion.community
An unserious culture lacks the ability to sustain high art.| www.persuasion.community
Serious readers must expand their tastes to the small presses.| www.persuasion.community
Improvements are slowing and artificial general intelligence remains far off.| www.persuasion.community
Francis Fukuyama explains how to actually make government more efficient.| www.persuasion.community
Battles for political responsiveness and proceduralism have undermined government’s ability to get things done.| www.persuasion.community
Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama discuss what a Trump victory means for America, its allies, and the world.| www.persuasion.community
In a pair of rulings, the Supreme Court gives Big Tech control over content moderation.| www.persuasion.community
We just need a better definition. Here’s mine.| www.persuasion.community
I grew up in foster care. I wasn’t prepared for what I found on campus.| www.persuasion.community
Yascha Mounk and Rob Henderson discuss his journey from poverty to the Ivy League—and how it has shaped his view of America.| www.persuasion.community
The first essay in our new series "Why Liberalism."| www.persuasion.community
And the Democrats’ insistence that we don’t believe our lyin’ eyes is eroding trust.| www.persuasion.community
A cluster of rulings this month could define online communication for years to come.| www.persuasion.community
The media messed up with the “bloodbath” remark. He's too dangerous for us to repeat the mistakes of 2016.| www.persuasion.community
Misconduct is widespread and the academy may face a serious reckoning.| www.persuasion.community
This is not just "kids these days."| www.persuasion.community
It’s destabilizing to have a nation of young strivers with no coherent vision or path to success.| www.persuasion.community
As a teen, she transitioned to male but came to regret it. Here’s how it felt to enter history in the trans debate.| www.persuasion.community
It’s destabilizing to have a nation of young strivers with no coherent vision or path to success.| www.persuasion.community
A critic of liberalism argues that, in a way, we are all liberals now.| www.persuasion.community
The policy, established to even the racial scales, has been systematically punishing Asian-Americans.| www.persuasion.community
The Catholic movement that wants to use government power in the name of public morality.| www.persuasion.community
