Persuasion
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Has Vučić Overplayed His Hand?
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How To Actually Talk About Patriotism
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DEI Demeans Minorities
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Frank Furedi on the Case for Populism
Yascha Mounk and Frank Furedi delve into the case for populism—and clash over Viktor Orbán's Hungary.
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Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Persuasion Author, The Identity Trap
Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.
Writer. Critic. Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. \Literature, history, liberalism, philosophy.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wuhan University
Jeffery Tyler Syck is an Assistant Professor of Politics and founding director of the Center for Public Service at the University of Pikeville. A scholar of American political thought, he writes on the moral and civic foundations of democracy.
Senior Fellow at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, furniture maker, drone pilot, fan of classic social theory.
I write about AI, emerging technology, and the future of governance.
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.
Martin Eiermann is a sociologist focused on the politics of personal data. His book, The Limiting Principle, examines the social and political significance of privacy in the modern United States.
Head of Podcasts at Persuasion.
Writing on US national security, grand strategy, and foreign policy
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.
Geopolitical analyst writing on Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Russia. Connecting individual events to the structural patterns behind them.
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