Yascha Mounk

Author and journalist

Berkeley, California, USA

About Yascha

American author, journalist, and professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his work on the intersection of politics and culture.

Associated Podcasts

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Guest

The Book Review

Host

Earn Your Leisure

Guest

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer

Connect

Recent Appearances

Kathleen Stock on the Case Against Assisted Death

The Good Fight•Apr 7, 2026•55:40•host

Ruy Teixeira on What the Liberal Patriot Closure Says About the Center Left

The Good Fight•Apr 7, 2026•59:06•host

Yascha Mounk

About Yascha

Associated Podcasts

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

The Book Review

Earn Your Leisure

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer

Connect

Recent Appearances

Kathleen Stock on the Case Against Assisted Death

Ruy Teixeira on What the Liberal Patriot Closure Says About the Center Left

The Fifth Column

The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

The Good Fight

The News Meeting

Key Topics

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