Persuasion
Yascha Mounk, Sam Kahn, James Bosworth (Boz), Rashmee Roshan Lall, Andrea Miotti, Francis Fukuyama, Dan Williams, Eboo Patel, Nikola Mikovic, Don Kettl, Dalibor Rohac, Richard Aldous, Saeid Golkar, joseph horowitz, Leonora Barclay, Charles LaneThe community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for.
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The Next 250 Years (of Persuasion)
America just turned 250… and Persuasion just turned six!
Yascha founded Persuasion in the divisive summer of 2020. Our mission was to revive the tradition of philosophical liberalism at a time when polarization and groupthink were taking h...
What If the Next French President Had to Wear an Ankle Monitor?
Marine Le Pen during the news broadcast announcing her candidacy on July 7, 2026. (Photo by Christian Hartmann / Pool / AFP via Getty Images.)
Yesterday, a Paris appeals court upheld Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzling European Parli...
Why Russia Is Running Out of Time In Crimea
A worker hangs a Russian flag on the wall of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, on March 18, 2026 in Moscow in memory of the annexation of Ukrainian regions in 2014. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images.)
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“Social Media Addiction” Is Way More Complicated Than You Think
We apologize for the technical problems that meant we were unable to go live on Substack with Nils Gilman last month. But we’ve solved them, and we are delighted that Nils will join us TOMORROW at 1pm EST for Ask the Author to discuss his h...
Arvind Narayanan on Why AI Isn’t All That Revolutionary
Yascha Mounk and Arvind Narayanan discuss why the real transformation from AI will take decades rather than months—and what that means for how we should prepare.
Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University.
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Persuasion Author, The Identity Trap
Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.
Founder of Hxagon
Journalist by trade & inclination. PhD. Analyst. Author. I join the dots on international affairs and the world of books so you don't have to.
Founder and CEO of ControlAI. Working to keep humanity in control.
Senior Fellow at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, furniture maker, drone pilot, fan of classic social theory.
Writer. Academic philosopher. PhD from University of Cambridge, 2018. Writes about: philosophy, social science, evolution, artificial intelligence, politics.
Founder and President, Interfaith America
Nikola Mikovic is a Serbian journalist and political analyst who focuses mainly on political developments in the post-Soviet space.
Don Kettl is Professor Emeritus and Former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy
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
Saeid Golkar is the UC Foundation associate professor of political science at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, a senior advisor at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), and a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum.
Joseph Horowitz’s 13 books include The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War, exploring the fate of soft diplomacy. His NPR documentaries argue for the arts as a neglected source of national identity.
Head of Podcasts at Persuasion.
Nonresident senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute. Former deputy opinion editor, Washington Post. Author, "The Day Freedom Died." Adult Lego builder. Ask me about the S2K.
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