Persuasion
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France’s TikTok Populist
Jordan Bardella on May 1, 2026. (Photo by Albin Bonnard / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images.)
Jordan Bardella is often described as France’s answer to Donald Trump. Like the U.S. president, the leader of the hard-right National Rally (RN)...
The New Normal of Holding Federal Workers Hostage
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to reporters after passage of a Department of Homeland Security funding bill, on April 30, 2026 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Graeme Sloan/Getty Images.)
This article is part of...
Who Stands to Gain Most From the MAGA Split
Our next Ask the Author livestream will take place today at 6pm ET on Substack Live. Cathy Young will discuss her article “They Went Hard Against Woke. And Then… Went Even Harder Against Trump.” Look out for the notification—or click here t...
Laurenz Guenther on the Representation Gap in Politics
Yascha Mounk and Laurenz Guenther discuss why ordinary voters and political elites disagree on immigration, crime, and social issues.
Laurenz Guenther is a political economist at the Toulouse School of Economics and a Fellow at the Institu...
Europe Can No Longer Trust America
Donald Tusk on April 30, 2026 (Photo by Foto Olimpik/NurPhoto via Getty Images.)
In his recent interview with the Financial Times, Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, startled many by predicting that Russia might soon test NATO’s resolve...
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Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Persuasion Author, The Identity Trap
Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.
Henri Astier is a London-based journalist who worked for the BBC from 1991 to 2021 and writes for French and English-language publications.
Director of Public Advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
New York City-based writer, musician, and artist. Managing Editor of The Eternally Radical Idea with Greg Lukianoff. Senior Writer & Editor at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Board Chair at Fair for All. More at AngelEduardo.com.
William Deresiewicz is the author of five books including Excellent Sheep, The Death of the Artist, and A Jane Austen Education. His most recent book is The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society.
Senior Fellow at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, furniture maker, drone pilot, fan of classic social theory.
Political analyst and Host of the Uncommon Decency podcast on European affairs: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/uncommon-decency/id1534151181
Senior fellow at AEI. Senior research fellow at Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, UK. Research associate at Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
Bard College historian and host of Persuasion’s Bookstack podcast
Head of Podcasts at Persuasion.
Executive Director @ Center for Humane Technology
Geopolitical analyst focusing on structural dynamics across Eastern and Western Europe.
Matt Marks runs Tribe, the United Synagogue's youth arm, advises the BNJC on Jewish life, and is a south-coast rabbinic chaplain with University Jewish Chaplaincy. He is a Sacks Scholar writing a PhD on Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks' intellectual legacy.
Researcher at GWU, Stanford Russia politics, migration, civil society https://www.ivettasergeeva.com/
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