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The Good Fight

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Sep 12, 2018 • 58min

Sheri Berman Redux

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and Sheri Berman, Professor of Politics at Barnard College, review the developments of the past two years. What have we learned about populism? Is it continuing to rise? And what can we do to stop it?Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.orgTwitter:@Yascha_MounkThis podcast was made in collaboration with New America. Podcast production by John T. Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aug 29, 2018 • 57min

Peter Wolodarski

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Peter Wolodarski, the editor of Dagens Nyheder, about the rapid rise of the Sweden Democrats, the reasons why far-right populists have found so much success in Scandinavia, and what Americans can learn from these changes. Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.orgTwitter:@Yascha_MounkThis podcast was made in collaboration with New America. Podcast production by John T. Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aug 15, 2018 • 53min

James Crabtree

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to James Crabtree, the author of The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age, about Narendra Modi, the political rise of Hinduism, and the new class of Indian plutocrats. Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.orgTwitter:@Yascha_MounkThis podcast was made in collaboration withNew America. Podcast production by John T. Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aug 1, 2018 • 51min

Kori Schake

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Kori Schake, Deputy Director-General of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, about the damage Donald Trump is doing to the transatlantic relationship; what the world would look like without NATO; and why it’s worth defending the liberal international order.Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.orgTwitter:@Yascha_MounkThis podcast was made in collaboration with New America.Podcast production by John T. Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 18, 2018 • 1h 1min

Jake Sullivan

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Jake Sullivan, who was responsible for domestic policy on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, about the reasons why Democrats should embrace a more radical and imaginative economic policy in 2020.For more on Sullivan’s argument, see his recent article in Democracy Journal.Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.orgTwitter:@Yascha_MounkThis podcast was made in collaboration with New America. Podcast production by John T. Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 4, 2018 • 53min

Jeff Jarvis

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Jeff Jarvis about the reasons social media might deepen democracy, whether regulation of tech will do more good or ill, and what the internet of the future might look like.  Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.orgTwitter:@Yascha_MounkThis podcast was made in collaboration with New America. Podcast production by John T. Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 20, 2018 • 1h 1min

Michael McFaul

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Michael McFaul, the former US Ambassador to Russia, about the roots of America’s conflict with the Kremlin, whether a better relationship between the countries would have been possible, and how democracies can protect themselves against autocrats who are intent on promoting dictatorship around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 6, 2018 • 1h 1min

Glen Weyl

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to economist Glen Weyl about the roots of inequality, the problems of monopoly and monopsony, and whether more, not less, radical markets are the antidote to the economic problems of our age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 23, 2018 • 54min

Vladimir Kara-Murza

In this live episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Vladimir Kara-Murza, a leading Russian opposition activist, about the prospects for democracy in Russia and around the world.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 9, 2018 • 47min

Cecilia Muñoz

In this inaugural live episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Cecilia Muñoz, Vice President at New America and former Director of the Domestic Policy Council, about how to leverage technology in the public interest, and what kind of compromise the left should accept on immigration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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