The Good Fight

The Good Fight Club: Gaza Ceasefire, U.S. Government Shutdown, and America’s Slouch Towards Autocracy

Oren Harman on the Magic of Metamorphosis

David French on The Mess We’re In

The Good Fight Club: Who’s a Hypocrite About Free Speech?

Quentin Skinner on Liberty

In this episode of "The Good Fight," Yascha Mounk interviews Quentin Skinner, a distinguished intellectual historian, about his new book, "Liberty as Independence." They discuss two contrasting conceptions of liberty: freedom as the absence of interference versus freedom as the absence of domination. Skinner argues tha...

Justin Marozzi on Slavery in the Islamic World

David Bau on How Artificial Intelligence Works

In this episode of "The Good Fight," Yascha Mounk interviews David Bau, a computer scientist from Northeastern University and former Google employee, to provide a 101 introduction to how AI models work. Bau explains the differences between traditional AI classifiers and modern large language models (LLMs), detailing th...

Katie Herzog on Drinking Your Way Sober

The Good Fight Club: Hounding Political Opponents, Misinformation, and Autism

Randi Weingarten on the State of America’s Public Schools

The Good Fight Club: Populism in the UK, Threats to Free Speech, and the Future of the Middle East

Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Builds and Weakens Societies

Damon Linker on The Spiral of Violence in America

David Brooks on… Yascha Mounk

The Good Fight Club: Russian Drones in Poland, Low Literacy in Schools, and Can Anyone Rein in Trump?

Tom Ginsburg on Whether America Should Adopt a New Constitution

Daron Acemoglu on How States Succeed—And Why Many Don’t

The Good Fight Club: The “Trump Is Dead” Conspiracy, the Big Summit Between Xi, Putin and Modi, and Firings at the CDC

Cass Sunstein on Defending Liberalism

Tyler Cowen on AI (Rerun)