The Good Fight

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to James Bloodworth, author of Hired, about how the impact that Amazon warehouses have had on small British towns, a viable political program for the far left, and the shortcomings of Jeremy Corbyn.Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.orgTwitter: @Yascha_MounkPodcast production by John T. WilliamsThis episode brought to you by The Great Courses.The Great Courses is giving Good Fight listeners a special, limited time offer: Order Investigating American Presidents video course taught by Professor Paul Rosenzweig, JD and get 85% off the regular price!That’s a $150 savings! And you can start watching it instantly! Just go to www.thegreatcourses.com/GoodFight for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Coleman Hughes, a young black writer quickly making a big name for himself, about how to fight discrimination against minorities without making group membership more salient than it already is.Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.orgTwitter:@Yascha_MounkThis podcast was made in collaboration with New America. Podcast production by John T. Williams.This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses. To get 85% off the regular price of the course Investigating American Presidents, go to thegreatcourses.com/goodfight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Sagarika Ghose, author of Why I Am A Liberal, about the populist threat to liberal democracy in India, the prospects of defeating Narendra Modi, and why liberalism has relevance beyond the West.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

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to John Judis about the case for nationalism, how to deal with immigration, and the right model of integration.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

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Helen Pluckrose, editor of Areo Magazine and one of the perpetrators of the “Sokal Squared” hoax, about her opposition to the postmodern turn of parts of the left, whether a form of liberal universalism is feasible, and how to call out the shortcomings of the left without becoming a tool of the right.. Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.orgTwitter: @Yascha_MounkThis podcast was made in collaboration with New America. Podcast production by John T. Williams.This episode is brought to you by the following advertisers: Express VPN, take back your Internet privacy today. Find out how you can get 3 months free at expressvpn.com/goodfight.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Corrosion of Conservatism, about his personal journey from leading conservative to principled critic of the Republican Party, the deep roots of Trumpism, and how to forge a new political coalition. 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

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Tim Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale, about the roots of populism, the role of social media, the nature of propaganda, and whether fascism is the right analogy for understanding contemporary America. 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

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Tim Dixon, a co-founder of More in Common, about why the usual story on America’s deepening polarization is wrong; the views of America’s “exhausted majority”; how progressive activists differ from the rest of the country; and how Democrats can build a winning coalition by mobilizing “passive liberals” and persuading moderates.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

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Thomas Chatterton-Williams, one of the leading black writers of his generation, about why essentializing race plays into the hands of the racists and how to talk about identity in a more productive way.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

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Justin E. H. Smith, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the Sorbonne, and one of our time’s most thoughtful and wide-ranging essayists, about the assault on rationality in our politics and how (not to) respond.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