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The Good Fight — 499 episodes · page 1 of 5
Malcolm Gaskill on Why Our Ancestors Weren't as Superstitious as We Think
James Marriott on the End of Reading
Eliot Cohen on Why America Keeps Losing Wars It Should Win
David Deming on the Future of Universities in the Age of AI
Why America’s Real Wealth Isn’t in Silicon Valley
Luis Garicano on Why Europe Fell Behind
Galen Druke on the Midterms
Frank Furedi on the Case for Populism
Simon Sebag Montefiore on the Origins of the Modern Middle East
Shashank Joshi on Why Russia Won't Invade NATO—Yet
Jerry Kaplan on Why AI Won’t Kill Us All
Jacob Weisberg on the Contagion of Cowardice
Judith Dada on the Rise of the AfD
Sarah Longwell on How Democrats Can Defeat Trump
Jared Diamond on Whether Leaders Make History
Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths (Rerun)
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: Building Things
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: How States Form
Adam Bodnar on Why Defeating Populists at the Ballot Box Isn’t Enough
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: Human Nature
Daron Acemoglu on Why Liberalism Became a Victim of Its Own Success
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: The End of History and the Last Man
Katja Hoyer on Why We Should Stop Comparing Everything to Weimar
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: His Life and Ideas
Claude Steele on the Hidden Stress of Diverse Spaces
The Good Fight Club: Refounding Liberalism, Gen Z’s Political Instincts, and a Watergate Ghost Story
John Harpham on the Intellectual Origins of American Slavery
Deirdre McCloskey on What Really Caused the Industrial Revolution
Arvind Narayanan on Why AI Isn’t All That Revolutionary
Ivan Krastev on Why America Has Lost Faith in Itself
Charles Fain Lehman on Why Cities Got Safer
The Good Fight Club: Why the Center Left Is Losing, the Squad vs. the Median Voter, and How Patriotism Wins Elections
Mark Leonard on Whether Europe is Doomed
A Debate with Curtis Yarvin
Samuel Moyn on Why Old People Are Ruining America
David Bau on How—and Whether—Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Rebecca Haw Allensworth on How Professional Licenses are Rigging the Game for Insiders
Steve Stewart-Williams on Sex Differences and Human Nature
Jeremiah Johnson on Why Gen Z Isn’t Actually Doomed
Kathryn Paige Harden on How Genetics Shapes Human Behavior
H.W. Brands on the Making of George Washington
James Traub on Why American Classrooms Are Failing Democracy
Marc Lipsitch on Playing Pandemic Roulette in the Lab
The Good Fight Club: The Vibe Shift That Wasn’t, White Identity Politics, and “When They Go Low, We Go Low”
Al Roth on Why People Should Be Free to Sell Their Kidneys
Timothy Garton Ash on Europe’s Political Fragmentation
Laurenz Guenther on the Representation Gap in Politics
Lant Pritchett on Why Foreign Aid Misses the Point
David Bromwich on Why Americans Have Lost Faith in Universities
Luis Garicano on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Jacob Mchangama on the Global Free Speech Recession
Michael Shermer on Truth and Conspiracy
Ivan Krastev on Why Even Dictators Can’t Escape Democracy
Andrés Velasco on Oil Shocks and Financial Crises
Kathleen Stock on the Case Against Assisted Death
Ruy Teixeira on What the Liberal Patriot Closure Says About the Center Left
Sebastian Mallaby on AI Safety and the Race for Superintelligence
David Autor on the Scars That Money Can’t Heal
David Goodhart on Why the Educated Elite Lost Touch with Democracy
Shashank Joshi on Why the War in the Middle East Won’t End Anytime Soon
Ibram X. Kendi on Great Replacement Theory
Adrian Wooldridge on the Lost Genius of the Political Center
A Very Brief Interview with Klaus Schwab
Dean Ball on Who Should Control AI
Francis Fukuyama on Trump’s War With Iran
Danielle Allen on Why Technocratic Liberalism Failed
Janice Stein on When Being Rational Is Irrational
The Good Fight Club: Why Japan’s “Weirdo” Victory Matters, the Rise of Chinese Soft Power, and the End of Asian Stability
Jacob Savage on the Costs of the Great Awokening
Daniel Diermeier on Why Universities Are Their Own Worst Enemies
C. Thi Nguyen on Why Measuring Everything Ruins Everything
Jung Chang on A Personal History of China
Ruud Koopmans on Immigration and Integration in Europe
Martin Wolf on Why Trump’s Economic Revolution Never Happened
Atul Gawande on Medicine and Mortality
Gašper Beguš on Why Language Doesn’t Make Humans Special
Damon Linker on Why Trump 2.0 Is More Destructive Than Anyone Expected
Ian Bassin on How to Save American Democracy from Trump
Rebecca Goldstein on Why Humans Need to Matter
Scott Anderson on Why Iran’s Real Revolution Might Be Coming
The Good Fight Club: Maduro’s Capture, Trump’s Foreign Policy Vision, and the Future of American Power
Ivan Krastev on 2026
Francis Fukuyama on 2025
Kelly Born on All the Ways AI Is Changing Politics
The Good Fight Club: Can Europe Control Its Fate?
Jill Lepore on Why We Should Amend the U.S. Constitution
Richard Thaler on Why People are Much More Irrational than Economists Believe
Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths
Sven Beckert on How Capitalism Made the Modern World
Dan Wang on China and the United States
Nate Soares on Why AI Could Kill Us All
The Good Fight Club: A Warm Welcome for MBS, the Future of MAGA, and Democrat Infighting
James Loxton on Democracies and Dictators
William MacAskill on Effective Altruism
Shadi Hamid on Why We Need American Power
George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times
The Good Fight Club: Mayor Mamdani, the Crackup at Heritage, and the Death of Dick Cheney
Joseph Heath on the Death of Marxism
The Good Fight Club: Mamdani Mania, the Neverending Shutdown, and the Trump-Xi Summit
Geoffrey Hinton on Artificial Intelligence