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The Good Fight — 455 episodes
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
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
Ruy Teixeira on What the Liberal Patriot Closure Says About the Center Left
Kathleen Stock on the Case Against Assisted Death
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
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
The Good Fight Club: Trump’s New Ballroom, a Looming Attack on Venezuela, and Why Social Media Explains the Rise o
Lulu Meservey on How Media Has Changed
Randall Kennedy on Racism in America
Quico Toro on Charlatans
Bret Stephens on Why the Democrats Are Despairing
The Good Fight Club: Gaza Ceasefire, U.S. Government Shutdown, and America’s Slouch Towards Autocracy
Oren Harman on the Magic of Metamorphosis
David French on The Mess We’re In
The Good Fight Club: Who’s a Hypocrite About Free Speech?
Quentin Skinner on Liberty
Justin Marozzi on Slavery in the Islamic World
David Bau on How Artificial Intelligence Works
Katie Herzog on Drinking Your Way Sober
The Good Fight Club: Hounding Political Opponents, Misinformation, and Autism
Randi Weingarten on the State of America’s Public Schools
The Good Fight Club: Populism in the UK, Threats to Free Speech, and the Future of the Middle East
Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Builds and Weakens Societies
Damon Linker on The Spiral of Violence in America
David Brooks on… Yascha Mounk
The Good Fight Club: Russian Drones in Poland, Low Literary in Schools, and Can Anyone Rein in Trump?
Tom Ginsburg on Whether America Should Adopt a New Constitution
Daron Acemoglu on How States Succeed—And Why Many Don’t
The Good Fight Club: The “Trump Is Dead” Conspiracy, the Big Summit Between Xi, Putin and Modi, and Firings
Cass Sunstein on Defending Liberalism
Tyler Cowen on AI (Rerun)
Musa Al-Gharbi on Why We Have Never Been Woke (Rerun)
Why Do We Always Think We're Right? (Rerun)
Arlie Hochschild on Trump Voters, Old and New
The Good Fight Club: Trump's Firings, Reinventing Liberalism, and the Rise of AI
David Enoch on Certainty and Compromise
Christine Rosen on the Harms of the Digital Age
Miles Taylor on Resisting Donald Trump
Thomas Chatterton Williams on the Age of False Certainty
Jesse Singal on Crises in Politics and Social Science
The Good Fight Club: Epstein, Columbia, Ukraine, Fed Independence
Isaac Saul on Dialogue and Disagreement
Dan Williams on Misinformation
Steven Teles on Abundance
Alex Thompson on the Decline of Joe Biden
Martin Wolf on the Coming Fall of the U.S. Economy
Dean Spears & Michael Geruso on Why We Need More People
Luke Tryl on Why Britain Is Miserable
Irshad Manji on Understanding Each Other in Turbulent Times
Francis Fukuyama on War in the Middle East
Peter Hessler on China
Helen Lewis on The Genius Myth
Lenore Skenazy on Rejecting Helicopter Parenting
Shashank Joshi on How Warfare is Changing
Mark Lynas on Nuclear War
David Leonhardt on Why the Left isn’t Reaching the Working Class
Quico Toro on How to Save the Climate
Steve Stewart-Williams on Nature vs Nurture
Paul Krugman on Why International Trade is Good
Katja Hoyer on East Germany Then and Now
Frances Lee & Stephen Macedo on Why Institutions Failed During COVID
Pratap Mehta on the Global Crisis of Legitimacy
Elaine Kamarck and William Galston on How the Democrats Can Win
Rutger Bregman on How to Live a Moral Life
Kevin Mitchell on Free Will
Claire Lehmann on The Psychology Behind Wokeness
Sarah Longwell on What Voters Really Think
Ivan Krastev on American Decline
Larry Summers on Harvard’s Showdown With Trump
Coleman Hughes on the Legacy of Slavery
Emily Oster on What’s Gone Wrong with Modern Parenting
John McWhorter on Pronouns
Jason Furman on “Liberation Day”
Yascha Answers Your Questions #2
Audrey Tang on “Misinformation”
Aaron Sibarium on Identity Politics under Joe Biden and Donald Trump
Hamish McKenzie on How Substack is Transforming Public Discourse
Jacob mchangama on free speech
Francis Fukuyama on Donald Trump at Home and Abroad
Jonathan Rauch on the Politicization of Christianity
How to Have Difficult Conversations with Mónica Guzmán
Yascha Answers Your Questions #1
Spencer Case on Defending Patriotism
Jake Sullivan on National Security
Wolfgang Münchau on German decline
Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works
Arlie Hochschild on Trump Voters, Old and New
Oren Cass on the Case for Tariffs
Eric Kaufmann on “The Third Awokening”
Francis Fukuyama on Trump 2.0
Yanis Varoufakis on What Comes After Capitalism
What Are Children For?
Fraser Nelson on Great Britain
Tyler Cowen on Everything
Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China (from 2021)
Francis Fukuyama on the World in 2025
Bonus: Noah Smith on the Rise and Fall of "Neoliberalism"
Alice Evans on Why Equality Fails
Richard Reeves on the Gender Gap
Cass Sunstein on Campus Free Speech
Mailbag #2: Journalism for the Trump Era
Melissa Chen on the "Singaporean Model"
Ivan Krastev on The New Global Order
Freya India on How to Free the Anxious Generation
Francis Fukuyama on Trump 47
Shikha Dalmia on Leaving Libertarianism
Norbert Röttgen on Germany
Why Is This Race So Damn Close?
Teresa Bejan on Virtue
Newly-Minted Nobel Prize Winner James Robinson on How Societies Thrive
Charles Taylor on Identity and Modernity
What Elites Really Believe
Amanda Ripley on How to Survive Disaster
Mailbag #1: Is America Headed for Civil War?
Musa Al-Gharbi on Why We Have Never Been Woke
Liberalism as a Way of Life
How to Stop Campus From Boiling Over
James C. Scott on The Perils of State Power
Timur Kuran on Why We Lie About Our Beliefs
The Promise and Perils of Contacting Extraterrestrials
Freddie deBoer on “Peak Woke”
Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc.
Shalom Auslander on Self-Loathing and How to Overcome It
Matthew Yglesias on Kamala
Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism
Rachel Kleinfeld on the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump and the Rise of Political Violence in America
Elizabeth Anderson on Equality
Francis Fukuyama on Global Chaos (and Why You Don't Need to Despair About It)
Yuval Levin on the Coming Realignment
Simon Fanshawe on Merit and Diversity
Olivier Roy on France
Brad Wilcox on Why You Should Get Married
William Galston on 2024 and Trump's Conviction
Daryl Davis on Befriending the Klan
Nellie Bowles on How the Revolution Went Mainstream
Helen Joyce on Youth Gender Medicine
Eboo Patel on Pluralism
Mike Pesca on How the Media Got Polarized
Kwame Anthony Appiah on the Right—and Wrong—Way for Universities to Handle Identity
Vinay Prasad on What Went Wrong With COVID
Alexandra Hudson on Why Civility Matters
Jonathan Haidt on The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Lynn on How Government Works (and "Yes, Minister")
Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness
Ed Luce on America in 2024
Alex Byrne on the Trouble with Gender
Larry Summers on What Went Wrong on Campus
Francisco Toro on Guatemala’s Political Revolution
Ricardo Hausmann on How Economies Grow
Martha Nussbaum on Living (and Eating) Morally
Ruy Teixeira on How the Democrats Lost the Working Class
Albert Wu on Taiwan’s Past, Present and Future
Rob Henderson on Foster Care, Social Class and the New American Elite
Tyler Austin Harper on How to Fix American Universities
Branko Milanovic on Globalization
Mary Harrington on Feminism
Philip Pettit on What It Means to Be Free
Tara Isabella Burton on the Myth of Self-Creation
Tim Urban on Everything
Bethany Allen on How China Abuses its Economic Might
Robert Sapolsky on Free Will
Anshel Pfeffer on Israel and the War in the Middle East
David Brooks on Knowing Others (and Ourselves)
Jonathan Rauch on Why Many People Are Unhappy in Middle Age (and How Life Gets Better After Fifty)
Terror and Tragedy in the Middle East
Angus Deaton on America’s Deaths of Despair
Yascha Mounk on The Identity Trap
David Axelrod on 2024
Rory Stewart on How Not to Be a Politician
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on the Tyranny of the Minority
Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech
Sohrab Ahmari on Post-Liberalism
Is Democracy More Resilient Than We Think?
Susan Neiman on Why Left ≠ Woke
Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations
After Affirmative Action
Michael Walzer on Liberalism and its Critics
Tim Mak on the Ukrainian Counteroffensive
Michael Lind Makes the Case for Economic Populism
Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder on Fighting Illiberalism, Right and Left
Tomiwa Owolade on What We Get Wrong About Race
Why Erdoğan Won
Jason Furman on the Future of the World Economy
Will Humanity Survive AI?
Israel’s Democratic Crisis
William Deresiewicz on the “Excellent Sheep” of the American Elite
Ed Luce on an America—and a World—Divided
Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Past and Present
Ben Ansell on Why Politics Fail
Murtaza Hussain on How Immigrant and Minority Voters are Misunderstood
Matthew Goodwin on Why the Last Decade of Politics Has Been So Bizarr
Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Jonathan Greenblatt on Anti-Semitism
Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics
Matthias Matthijs on the Future of Europe
Vincent Lloyd on What Happens When “Antiracism” Goes Wrong
Rachel Kleinfeld on Why America Isn’t About to Have a Civil War
Ro Khanna on the Progressive Case for Patriotism and Capitalism
Richard Haass on Where America Went Wrong
Matt Bennett on The Democrats’ Image Problem
Charles Kenny on the Material Progress of the Developing World
Bart Somers on Sustaining Diverse Cities in Tough Circumstances
Tabata Amaral on Brazil’s Future
Shadi Hamid on the Tensions Between Liberalism and Democracy
The Revolt Against Iran's Theocratic Regime
Ben Rhodes on Where American Foreign Policy Went Wrong
James Kirchick on America’s Enormous Progress on Gay Rights
Danielle Allen on the Enduring Relevance of the Constitution
Renée DiResta on How (Not) to Fix Social Media
Ed Luce on America’s Future After the Midterms
Russ Muirhead on the Enduring Appeal of Conspiracy Theory
Sam Harris on Whether Religion Really Does Make Everything Worse
Lis Smith on What Democrats Do Wrong
Shashank Joshi on How the War in Ukraine Will End
Why More and More Children are Cutting Off Their Parents
Heather McGhee on Why Racial Progress is Not Zero-Sum
Richard Reeves on Why Men are Struggling
Robert Kagan on America’s Future, Foreign Policy Realism, and the War in Ukraine
Chloé Valdary on How to be a (True) Antiracist
Should Donald Trump Be Prosecuted?
Coleman Hughes on How America Racializes its Citizens
Sarah Longwell on 2024
What an Overly Pessimistic View of America Gets Wrong
Corey Brettschneider on Free Speech
Spin Dictators
David French on Abortion
Graeme Wood on January 6th, Saudi Arabia, and Interviewing Extremists
Do the Politics of Class and Race Stand in Tension?
Ian Bremmer on the Geopolitical Recession
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan
Are America's Institutions Broken?
Robert P. George on Free Speech, Philosophical Liberalism, and Conservatism After Trump
Adolph Reed, Jr. on Race and Class in America
Thomas Piketty on Why the World Keeps Getting More Equal
David Wallace-Wells on Climate Change
Jonathan Haidt on Why Public Discourse Has Become So Stupid
Yascha Mounk on Making Diverse Democracies Work
The Classics are for Everyone
Randall Kennedy on Racism, Critical Race Theory, and the Need for (Chastened) Optimism
T. M. Scanlon on What We Owe to Each Other
Anne Applebaum on How to Fight Back Against Dictators like Putin
How the War Might End
Russia, Today
Lea Ypi on Freedom
George Packer on the War in Ukraine
Moisés Naím on The Revenge of Power
Jonathan Sumption on the Limits of State Power
How (Not) to Save Refugees
Javier Cercas on How to Deal With Your Nation’s Past
Ramachandra Guha on the Crisis in the World’s Largest Democracy
The Conservative Case for Philosophical Liberalism
Fiona Hill on the Working Class, Populism, and Russia
Michael Ignatieff on How To Stay True to Liberal Values in Politics
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the Importance of Due Process
John McWhorter on Why Woke Ideas Harm Minority Communities
Garry Kasparov on Resisting Authoritarianism
Michael Powell on Race, Class, and Free Speech
Andrew Yang on Why Democrats Are in Crisis
Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China
Peter Singer on How to Reduce Suffering
Ross Douthat on the Trouble with Experts
Francis Fukuyama’s Defense of Liberalism
Caitlin Flanagan on Free Speech and America’s Future
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Rethinking Identity
Elizabeth Bruenig on Religion, Liberalism, and Wokeness
Why Americans Fight Over History
You Just Won't Understand!
Are We Too Divided to Be Patriotic?
Why We Need a Sane Republican Party
How (Not) to Think About Race
How to Boost Innovation
An Iranian in America
Saving Meritocracy
Why Is Crime Rising?
Inside the Insurrection
Disaster is Political
The Pursuit of Happiness
What Binds Us Together
Don't Give Up on Truth
An Optimist’s Vision of America
James Carville on How Democrats Self-Sabotage
What Went Wrong In India
How To Avoid High Conflict
Would You Wave the Magic Wand?
The Case For a Liberal Islam
The Perils of State Power
Why Governments Fail
The Dangers of Bad Science and Simple Solutions
When Foreign Aid Fails
Lessons From A Pandemic
What the West Misses About China
How to Save the Internet
What You Miss About the World If You Only Study Students at Harvard
Intent Matters
The Weaponization of Nostalgia
How To Understand Your Enemy
Why Do We Always Think We're Right?
Who Is Fighting Whom?
Is Social Media to Blame For It All?
Can We Build a More Rational World?
How to Strengthen American Democracy
Is It Wrong to Believe in Racial Progress?
Why Education Fails to Advance Equality
Xi's China
Is there Hope for Humanity? (Yes.)
How Can Joe Biden Strengthen Democracy Around the World?
The Best Way to Lose an Election
Is French Secularism the Reason for Those Terrorist Attacks? (No.)
What is the "Successor Ideology"?
The Meaning of the Election
How to Fight for Democracy
How (Not) to Change Minds
Are Democracies Failing?
Why Is America Still Friends with Saudi Arabia?
Should There Be A Billion Americans?
How to Persuade Your "Enemy"
What Would a Truly Integrated Society Look Like?
Is It Time to Abandon Meritocracy?
Why Do Diversity Programs Fail
Is it Racist for a White Man to Bounce a Brown Baby on His Lap?
An Exciting Announcement!
Thomas Rid
Omar Wasow
Francis Fukuyama on COVID-19
Ron Daniels
Sarah Longwell
David Miliband on the Coronavirus
Daniel Ziblatt
Constanze Stelzenmüller
Ruy Teixeira
E. J. Dionne
Ezra Klein
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Peter Hall
Sam Koppelman
Rachel Brown
Martin Gurri
Dan Kelemen
Peter Pomerantsev
James Robinson
Helen Lewis
David Frum
Dan Baer
Timur Kuran
George Packer Vol. 2
Elif Shafak
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Nicholas Christakis
Heidi Tworek
Tony Blair
Karen Stenner
Chayenne Polimédio
Cory Doctorow
James Bloodworth
Coleman Hughes
Sagarika Ghose
John Judis
Helen Pluckrose
Max Boot
Tim Snyder
Tim Dixon
Thomas Chatterton-Williams
Justin E. H. Smith
Sheri Berman Redux
Peter Wolodarski
James Crabtree
Kori Schake
Jake Sullivan
Jeff Jarvis
Michael McFaul
Glen Weyl
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Cecilia Muñoz
Ezra Klein
Anand Giridharadas, Part 2
Anand Giridharadas, Part 1
David French
Benjamin Wittes
Jennifer Rubin
David Miliband
Sabeel Rahman
Martin Sandbu
Francis Fukuyama Rerun
Branko Milanovic
Ian Bassin
Perry Bacon Jr.
Rachel Kleinfeld
E.J. Dionne
Nicholas Casey
Matthew d’Ancona
Jamie Kirchick
Ivan Krastev
Anne Applebaum
George Packer
Mark Blyth (Corrected)
Brian Klaas
Catherine Rampell
Francis Fukuyama
Evan McMullin
A World Without a Leader
Divided We Fall
The Most Dangerous Idea in American Politics
Liberal Nationalism
A Time To Start Drinking
The Democratic Recession
Bowling for Democracy