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

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Every guest on The Good Fight

378 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Mustafa Akyol
The Case For a Liberal Islam · May 2021

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Adrian Wooldridge
Adrian Wooldridge on the Lost Genius of the Political Center · 2 episodes

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Charles Fain Lehman
Charles Fain Lehman on Why Cities Got Safer · Jun 2026

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Colin Woodard
Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations · Jul 2023

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Corey Brettschneider
Corey Brettschneider on Free Speech · Jul 2022

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Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen on Why Technocratic Liberalism Failed · 2 episodes

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David Bau
David Bau on How—and Whether—Artificial Intelligence Thinks · 2 episodes

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Jeannie Suk Gersen
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the Importance of Due Process · Dec 2021

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Kori Schake
Kori Schake · Aug 2018

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Max Boot
Max Boot · Nov 2018

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Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Do the Politics of Class and Race Stand in Tension? · Jun 2022

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Omar Wasow
Omar Wasow · Jun 2020

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Patrick Sharkey
Why Is Crime Rising? · Jul 2021

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Richard Haass
Richard Haass on Where America Went Wrong · Feb 2023

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Robert P. George
Robert P. George on Free Speech, Philosophical Liberalism, and Conservatism After Trump · May 2022

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Tim Mak
Tim Mak on the Ukrainian Counteroffensive · Jul 2023

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Ben Ansell
Ben Ansell on Why Politics Fail · Apr 2023

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Eric Edelman
Why We Need a Sane Republican Party · Aug 2021

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H.W. Brands
H.W. Brands on the Making of George Washington · May 2026

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Ivan Krastev
Ivan Krastev on Why America Has Lost Faith in Itself · 7 episodes

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John B. Judis
John Judis · Dec 2018

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Lee Drutman
Divided We Fall · Mar 2017

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Marc J. Dunkelman
Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works · Feb 2025

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Peter Arcidiacono
After Affirmative Action · Jul 2023

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Richard Aldous
The Good Fight Club: Mamdani Mania, the Neverending Shutdown, and the Trump-Xi Summit · Nov 2025

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Ruy Teixeira
Ruy Teixeira on What the Liberal Patriot Closure Says About the Center Left · 4 episodes

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William Galston
William Galston on 2024 and Trump's Conviction · Jun 2024

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Anshel Pfeffer
Anshel Pfeffer on Israel and the War in the Middle East · Nov 2023

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Jonathan Sumption
Jonathan Sumption on the Limits of State Power · Feb 2022

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Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi on Freedom · Mar 2022

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Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard on Whether Europe is Doomed · Jun 2026

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Mark Lynas
Mark Lynas on Nuclear War · 2 episodes

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Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff on How To Stay True to Liberal Values in Politics · Dec 2021

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Minna Salami

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Oren Harman
Oren Harman on the Magic of Metamorphosis · Oct 2025

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Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev · Oct 2019

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Radek Sikorski
How the War Might End · Mar 2022

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Rana Mitter
What the West Misses About China · Mar 2021

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Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn on Why Old People Are Ruining America · Jun 2026

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Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman on Why Left ≠ Woke · Jul 2023

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