The Good Fight
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Frank Furedi on the Case for Populism
Simon Sebag Montefiore on the Origins of the Modern Middle East
Shashank Joshi on Why Russia Won't Invade NATO—Yet
Jerry Kaplan on Why AI Won’t Kill Us All
Jacob Weisberg on the Contagion of Cowardice
Judith Dada on the Rise of the AfD
Sarah Longwell on How Democrats Can Defeat Trump
Jared Diamond on Whether Leaders Make History
Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths (Rerun)
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: Building Things
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: How States Form
Adam Bodnar on Why Defeating Populists at the Ballot Box Isn’t Enough
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: Human Nature
Daron Acemoglu on Why Liberalism Became a Victim of Its Own Success
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: The End of History and the Last Man
Katja Hoyer on Why We Should Stop Comparing Everything to Weimar
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: His Life and Ideas
Claude Steele on the Hidden Stress of Diverse Spaces
The Good Fight Club: Refounding Liberalism, Gen Z’s Political Instincts, and a Watergate Ghost Story
John Harpham on the Intellectual Origins of American Slavery
Deirdre McCloskey on What Really Caused the Industrial Revolution
Arvind Narayanan on Why AI Isn’t All That Revolutionary
Ivan Krastev on Why America Has Lost Faith in Itself
Charles Fain Lehman on Why Cities Got Safer
The Good Fight Club: Why the Center Left Is Losing, the Squad vs. the Median Voter, and How Patriotism Wins Elections
Mark Leonard on Why Europe is Doomed
A Debate with Curtis Yarvin
Samuel Moyn on Why Old People Are Ruining America
David Bau on How—and Whether—Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Rebecca Haw Allensworth on How Professional Licenses are Rigging the Game for Insiders
Steve Stewart-Williams on Sex Differences and Human Nature
Jeremiah Johnson on Why Gen Z Isn’t Actually Doomed
Kathryn Paige Harden on How Genetics Shapes Human Behavior
H.W. Brands on the Making of George Washington
James Traub on Why American Classrooms Are Failing Democracy
Marc Lipsitch on Playing Pandemic Roulette in the Lab
The Good Fight Club: The Vibe Shift That Wasn’t, White Identity Politics, and “When They Go Low, We Go Low”
Al Roth on Why People Should Be Free to Sell Their Kidneys
Timothy Garton Ash on Europe’s Political Fragmentation
Laurenz Guenther on the Representation Gap in Politics
Lant Pritchett on Why Foreign Aid Misses the Point
David Bromwich on Why Americans Have Lost Faith in Universities
Luis Garicano on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Jacob Mchangama on the Global Free Speech Recession
Michael Shermer on Truth and Conspiracy
Ivan Krastev on Why Even Dictators Can’t Escape Democracy
Andrés Velasco on Oil Shocks and Financial Crises
Kathleen Stock on the Case Against Assisted Death
Ruy Teixeira on What the Liberal Patriot Closure Says About the Center Left
Sebastian Mallaby on AI Safety and the Race for Superintelligence
Yascha Mounk and Sebastian Mallaby discuss why tech leaders both fear and accelerate dangerous AI development, and whether open-source models pose unacceptable risks. Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books including The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. A former Financial Times contributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Sebastian Mallaby discuss why AI developers simultaneously fear and advance potentially dangerous technology, whether open-source AI models pose unacceptable security risks, and how China and the United States differ in their approaches to AI safety. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google X: @Yascha_Mounk & @JoinPersuasion YouTube: Yascha Mounk, Persuasion LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices