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"The Good Fight," the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can beat authoritarian populism.Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone.Email: goodfightpod@gmail.comTwitter: @Yascha_MounkWebsite: http://www.persuasion.community

The Good Fight Yascha Mounk

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"The Good Fight," the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can beat authoritarian populism.Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone.Email: goodfightpod@gmail.comTwitter: @Yascha_MounkWebsite: http://www.persuasion.community

    Simon Fanshawe on Merit and Diversity

    Simon Fanshawe on Merit and Diversity

    Yascha Mounk and Simon Fanshawe also discuss how gay and lesbian rights were won—and what that should teach today’s activists.

    Simon Fanshawe is an activist, writer, and consultant who is a co-founder of Stonewall UK and the rector of the University of Edinburgh. His book is The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions.

    In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Simon Fanshawe discuss whether there is a tension between hiring for merit and hiring for the value of having different kinds of life experiences present in organizations; how the gay rights movement framed the debate around legal equality and toleration rather than asking the public to affirm gay and lesbian identities; and why building alliances and finding common ground are essential for achieving social change and creating a more inclusive society.

    This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

    Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.
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    Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry

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    • 1 hr 5 min
    Olivier Roy on France

    Olivier Roy on France

    Yascha Mounk and Olivier Roy discuss the rise of the French right.

    Olivier Roy is a French political scientist and professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His latest book is The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms.

    In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Olivier Roy discuss how the new European far-right differs from the old; the French concept of laïcité, or secularism, and whether it goes too far in curtailing public religious practices; and whether a new appeal to universal values and compromise is possible in societies fragmented by identity politics.

    This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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    • 1 hr 9 min
    Brad Wilcox on Why You Should Get Married

    Brad Wilcox on Why You Should Get Married

    Yascha Mounk and Brad Wilcox discuss how marriage contributes to better outcomes for both children and adults.

    Brad Wilcox is Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Wilcox is the author of Get Married.

    In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Brad Wilcox discuss whether more people getting married really would improve their lives; why we might need a political and cultural environment more conducive to marriage; and what explains the “happiness gap” between liberals and conservatives in the US.

    This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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    • 54 min
    William Galston on 2024 and Trump's Conviction

    William Galston on 2024 and Trump's Conviction

    Yascha Mounk and William Galston discuss why neither the Democrats or Republicans have been able to build a durable governing majority.

    William Galston is an author and academic who holds the Ezra K. Zilker Chair in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Galston was also deputy assistant for domestic policy to President Bill Clinton. His latest book is Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy.

    In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and William Galston discuss why cultural questions have become as important as economic issues in deciding elections; why the period following the 2024 election will afford political opportunities to ideological upstarts in both parties; and the outsized influence of “dark passions" like humiliation and resentment in voting behavior.

    This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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    • 1 hr 32 min
    Daryl Davis on Befriending the Klan

    Daryl Davis on Befriending the Klan

    Yascha Mounk and Daryl Davis discuss his lifetime of convincing Ku Klux Klan members to renounce racism.

    Daryl Davis is an American R&B and blues musician, author and social activist. Davis estimates he has been the direct or indirect cause for over 200 conversions from the Klan. He is also co-founder of the Prohuman Foundation.

    In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Daryl Davis discuss how a childhood experience with racism inspired him to interview and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan; the importance of remaining “pro-human” even in the face of hatred and bigotry; and whether his faith in humanity feels out of tune with the current political moment.

    This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

    Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.
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    Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry

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    • 1 hr 35 min
    Nellie Bowles on How the Revolution Went Mainstream

    Nellie Bowles on How the Revolution Went Mainstream

    Yascha Mounk and Nellie Bowles discuss her career at The New York Times and reporting on the ground from urban “autonomous zones” in 2020.

    Nellie Bowles is a writer and reporter and the head of strategy at The Free Press, where she writes the TGIF column. Her book is Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History.

    In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Nellie Bowles discuss how she came to chafe against the institutional culture of The New York Times and why she left; how new power hierarchies arose within media and institutions where small groups came to wield outsized power; and how the transformative ideas about power and society that became dominant in 2020 continue to hold great influence.

    This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

    Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.
    If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone.
    Email: podcast@persuasion.community 
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    Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry

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    • 1 hr 12 min

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