The Good Fight podcast

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@gmail.comTwitter: @Yascha_MounkWebsite: http://www.persuasion.community

"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

 

#416

The Good Fight Club: Can Europe Control Its Fate?

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Timothy Garton Ash, Sabina Ćudić, and Nathalie ... more

12 hrs Ago

53 MINS

53:31

12 hrs Ago


#415

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 Univers... more

09 Dec 2025

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:41

09 Dec 2025


#414

Richard Thaler on Why People are Much More Irrational than Economists Believe

Richard Thaler is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Sc... more

07 Dec 2025

1 HR 08 MINS

1:08:03

07 Dec 2025


#413

Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths

Abigail Marsh is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Neu... more

02 Dec 2025

1 HR 17 MINS

1:17:16

02 Dec 2025


#412

Sven Beckert on How Capitalism Made the Modern World

Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. His most recent boo... more

29 Nov 2025

1 HR 14 MINS

1:14:16

29 Nov 2025


#411

Dan Wang on China and the United States

Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and author of [Breakneck: C... more

27 Nov 2025

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:21

27 Nov 2025


#410

Nate Soares on Why AI Could Kill Us All

Nate Soares is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author, wit... more

25 Nov 2025

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:35

25 Nov 2025


#409

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. I... more

22 Nov 2025

44 MINS

44:45

22 Nov 2025


#408

James Loxton on Democracies and Dictators

James Loxton is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. He ... more

18 Nov 2025

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:47

18 Nov 2025


#407

William MacAskill on Effective Altruism

Yascha Mounk and William MacAskill also discuss artificial intelligence. William MacAskill... more

15 Nov 2025

1 HR 26 MINS

1:26:59

15 Nov 2025


#406

Shadi Hamid on Why We Need American Power

Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a senior fellow at Georgetown Univer... more

11 Nov 2025

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:59

11 Nov 2025


#405

George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times

Yascha Mounk and George Packer discuss autocracy in literature and real life. George Packe... more

08 Nov 2025

56 MINS

56:30

08 Nov 2025


#404

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... more

06 Nov 2025

49 MINS

49:51

06 Nov 2025


#403

Joseph Heath on the Death of Marxism

Joseph Heath is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. ... more

04 Nov 2025

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:09

04 Nov 2025


#402

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 ne... more

01 Nov 2025

46 MINS

46:37

01 Nov 2025


#401

Geoffrey Hinton on Artificial Intelligence

Yascha Mounk and Geoffrey Hinton discuss how AI works—and why it’s a risk.  Geoffrey Hinto... more

30 Oct 2025

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:47

30 Oct 2025