The Good Fight
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The Good Fight
"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@...
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Ibram X. Kendi on Great Replacement Theory
Yascha Mounk and Ibram X. Kendi also discuss anti-racism, equity, and education.
Ibram X. Kendi is Professor of History and the founding...
Adrian Wooldridge on the Lost Genius of the Political Center
Yascha Mounk and Adrian Wooldridge explore how liberalism reinvented itself through past crises—and what that means for its survival today.
A Very Brief Interview with Klaus Schwab
Yascha Mounk and Klaus Schwab discuss truth, trust, and accountability—until he abruptly ended the interview.
In January, I received an e...
Dean Ball on Who Should Control AI
Yascha Mounk and Dean Ball examine how the fight over autonomous weapons and mass surveillance reveals the impossible choices facing American AI polic...
Francis Fukuyama on Trump’s War With Iran
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. His latest book is Liberalism and Its Discontents. He is also the auth...
Danielle Allen on Why Technocratic Liberalism Failed
Yascha Mounk and Danielle Allen discuss democratic backsliding.
Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard...
Janice Stein on When Being Rational Is Irrational
Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at th...
The Good Fight Club: Why Japan’s “Weirdo” Victory Matters, the Rise of Chinese Soft Power, and the End of Asian Stability
Yascha Mounk, Bethany Allen, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Chang Che examine how Asia is preparing for a more dangerous world.
In this week’s e...
Jacob Savage on the Costs of the Great Awokening
Jacob Savage is a writer and ticket scalper.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jacob Savage discuss whether the “Great Awoken...
Daniel Diermeier on Why Universities Are Their Own Worst Enemies
Yascha Mounk and Daniel Diermeier examine how elite institutions created the backlash that now threatens their future.
Daniel Diermeier i...
C. Thi Nguyen on Why Measuring Everything Ruins Everything
C. Thi Nguyen is a philosophy professor at the University of Utah. His latest book is The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game.
...
Jung Chang on A Personal History of China
Yascha Mounk and Jung Chang explore what individual narratives can tell us about China’s past and present.
Jung Chang is the author of Wi...
Ruud Koopmans on Immigration and Integration in Europe
Ruud Koopmans is Research Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of Sociology and Migration Research at Humboldt University Be...
Martin Wolf on Why Trump’s Economic Revolution Never Happened
Yascha Mounk and Martin Wolf also discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the economy—and humanity.
Martin Wolf is Associate Edi...
Atul Gawande on Medicine and Mortality
Yascha Mounk and Atul Gawande discuss how a simple system can improve patient outcomes.
Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and...
Gašper Beguš on Why Language Doesn’t Make Humans Special
Yascha Mounk and Gašper Beguš also talk about what whale communication and the recent progress on AI tell us about the human brain.
Gašpe...
Damon Linker on Why Trump 2.0 Is More Destructive Than Anyone Expected
Damon Linker writes the Substack newsletter “Notes from the Middleground.” He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Unive...
Ian Bassin on How to Save American Democracy from Trump
Yascha Mounk and Ian Bassin also report on what they got right—and wrong—over the past decade.
Ian Bassin is co-founder and Executive Dir...
Rebecca Goldstein on Why Humans Need to Matter
Yascha Mounk and Rebecca Goldstein debate whether our desperate need for significance is a flaw we should overcome—or an essential part of human digni...
Scott Anderson on Why Iran’s Real Revolution Might Be Coming
Yascha Mounk and Scott Anderson discuss how economic collapse has created the conditions for regime change—and what this could mean for the country.
The Good Fight Club: Maduro’s Capture, Trump’s Foreign Policy Vision, and the Future of American Power
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Amanda Ripley, and George Packer examine the Trump administration’s capture of Nicolás Ma...
Ivan Krastev on 2026
Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienn...
Francis Fukuyama on 2025
Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama look back at this year—and make predictions for 2026.
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior...
Kelly Born on All the Ways AI Is Changing Politics
Kelly Born is the founding director of the Packard Foundation’s Democracy, Rights, and Governance initiative.
In this week’s conversation...
The Good Fight Club: Can Europe Control Its Fate?
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Timothy Garton Ash, Sabina Ćudić, and Nathalie Tocci explore the relationship between the United States and...
Jill Lepore on Why We Should Amend the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and professor of law at Harvard Law School. She is also...
Richard Thaler on Why People are Much More Irrational than Economists Believe
Richard Thaler is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth Schoo...
Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths
Abigail Marsh is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Georgetown University.
In...
Sven Beckert on How Capitalism Made the Modern World
Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. His most recent book is Capitalism: A Global History.
In this week...
Dan Wang on China and the United States
Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and author of Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future.
In this wee...
Nate Soares on Why AI Could Kill Us All
Nate Soares is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author, with Eliezer Yudkowsky, of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies:...
The Good Fight Club: A Warm Welcome for MBS, the Future of MAGA, and Democrat Infighting
Edward Luce, Russell Muirhead, Lauren Harper Pope, and Yascha Mounk on this week’s news.
In this week’s conversation, Ed Luce, Russ Muirh...
James Loxton on Democracies and Dictators
James Loxton is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introduction...
William MacAskill on Effective Altruism
Yascha Mounk and William MacAskill also discuss artificial intelligence.
William MacAskill is a moral philosopher and cofounder of the ef...
Shadi Hamid on Why We Need American Power
Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Hamid’s ne...
George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times
Yascha Mounk and George Packer discuss autocracy in literature and real life.
George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer a...
The Good Fight Club: Mayor Mamdani, the Crackup at Heritage, and the Death of Dick Cheney
In this conversation, Sam Kahn, Mike Pesca, Christine Rosen, and Yascha Mounk discuss what the election results mean for the direction of the Democrat...
Joseph Heath on the Death of Marxism
Joseph Heath is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Trudeau Foun...
The Good Fight Club: Mamdani Mania, the Neverending Shutdown, and the Trump-Xi Summit
Richard Aldous, Sabina Ćudić, and Damon Linker join Yascha Mounk to dissect this week’s news.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk,...
Geoffrey Hinton on Artificial Intelligence
Yascha Mounk and Geoffrey Hinton discuss how AI works—and why it’s a risk.
Geoffrey Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scie...