Yascha Mounk and Shashank Joshi also discuss Trump's war in the Middle East and the differences between the United States and Europe.

As the extremes rise in Germany, the chancellor has lost all authority.

Yascha Mounk and Jerry Kaplan debate whether the existential risk from AI is overstated—and if so, what we should be worrying about instead.

Yascha Mounk and Jacob Weisberg examine why so many powerful people and institutions capitulated to Trump the second time around.

Yascha Mounk and Judith Dada also discuss why the tech sector is so behind in Europe—and how the continent can become dynamic again.

Yascha Mounk and Sarah Longwell discuss why the pro-democracy coalition keeps losing the narrative war—and how it can fight back.

Yascha Mounk and Jared Diamond discuss the age-old question of structure versus agency—and the Great Man theory of history.

Yascha Mounk and Abigail Marsh discuss how to recognize psychopathy—and what to do when you meet a psychopath.

Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama discuss his lifelong hobbies—from building furniture to robotics—and why they might save us in the age of big tech.

Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama delve into 9/11, the hubris of humanitarian intervention, and the letter he regretted signing.

Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama explore why any theory of politics must begin with an account of what makes us human.

Jews have always benefitted from strong protections for free speech.

Yascha Mounk and Daron Acemoglu examine how the digital age severed the link between economic growth and shared prosperity.

Yascha Mounk and Katja Hoyer also discuss what the Islamist attack on Berlin’s Pride parade says about the state of Germany.

Francis Fukuyama discusses the experiences and individuals that shaped him.

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

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

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

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 prepare.

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

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

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.

Yascha Mounk and Sam Moyn also discuss whether some people deserve to have more votes than others.

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

Yascha Mounk and Rebecca Haw Allensworth examine how professional licensing has become America’s most important—and most restrictive—regulatory institution.

Yascha Mounk and Steve Stewart-Williams examine what science reveals about biological and psychological differences between men and women.

Yascha Mounk and Jeremiah Johnson examine the disconnect between economic data and public sentiment about young Americans’ prospects.

Yascha Mounk and Paige Harden discuss twin studies, heritability research, and why genetic influence varies across different traits and populations.

Yascha Mounk and H.W. Brands discuss the first U.S. president's life and legacy.

Yascha Mounk and James Traub examine how progressive teaching methods are producing citizens who can’t think critically.

Yascha Mounk and Marc Lipsitch also discuss how worried we should be about Hantavirus and Ebola.

Amanda Ripley, Jesse Singal, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Yascha Mounk explore Trump’s failed cultural revolution.

Yascha Mounk and Al Roth discuss what we miss when we separate economics from human emotion.

Yascha Mounk and Timothy Garton Ash discuss how Britain’s shift toward populism reflects broader European trends.

Yascha Mounk and Laurenz Guenther discuss why ordinary voters and political elites disagree on immigration, crime, and social issues.

A Republican midterm washout would only accelerate a decline in Trump’s power that’s already occurring.

Yascha Mounk and David Bromwich discuss grade inflation, political conformity, and the crisis of trust in higher education.

Yascha Mounk and Luis Garicano discuss how AI will reshape labor markets, productivity, and economic growth.

Yascha Mounk and Jacob Mchangama discuss how democracies and dictatorships alike have turned against online speech freedom.

Yascha Mounk and Michael Shermer delve into the art of debunking dangerous ideas without silencing free speech.

Orbán is out. Now comes the hard part.

Yascha Mounk and Andrés Velasco discuss why the current energy crisis won’t repeat the 1970s—and what dangers lurk in today’s financial markets.

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

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

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.

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

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

Michael Lind on the two types of bourgeoisie.

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

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