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J.K. Rowling Is Turning A Free Speech Victory Into A Defeat

J.K. Rowling in 2023. (Photo by Euan Cherry/Getty Images)

This article is brought to you by American Purpose, the magazine and community founded by Francis Fukuyama in 2020, which is proudly part of the Persuasion family.


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Germany Has Lost the Thread on Immigration

Memorial to Christopher Street Day Attack, Berlin, July 27. (Photo by Sebastian Gollnow.)

On July 25, Berlin’s Christopher Street Day celebration ended in horror. A van was driven into a crowd near the city’s Pride festivities, killing one...

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Katja Hoyer on Why We Should Stop Comparing Everything to Weimar

Yascha Mounk and Katja Hoyer also discuss what the Islamist attack on Berlin’s Pride parade says about the state of Germany.

Katja Hoyer is a visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. H...

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What Being a Digital Nomad Taught Me About the Real World

A digital nomad working from a laptop, Spain, 2026. (Photo by Annette Ried.)

About three years ago I pulled up stakes and moved to the far side of the world. My reasons for this were so personal and idiosyncratic that I don’t talk about th...

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Josh Harder on Why America Needs to Build

In this conversation, recorded at the New Liberal Action Summit organized by the Center for New Liberalism in Washington, D.C., Francis Fukuyama interviews Representative Josh Harder about the obstacles to building things in the United Stat...

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  • Yascha Mounk

    Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Persuasion Author, The Identity Trap

  • Sam Kahn

    Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.

  • Luke Hallam

    Senior editor at Persuasion [email protected]

  • Quico Toro

    Quico Toro is Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, and the writer behind OnePercentBrighter.com Based in Tokyo. And fascinated by it.

  • Harry Cheadle

    Writer, editor, a millennial but not one of the optimistic ones.

  • Sally Satel

    Psychiatrist, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and Lecturer, Yale University School of Medicine

  • Damon Silvers

    Damon Silvers is a Visiting Professor at University College London and at Newcastle University in the U.K. He is also a Senior Advisor to the AFL-CIO and the AFT.

  • Francis Fukuyama

    Senior Fellow at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, furniture maker, drone pilot, fan of classic social theory.

  • François Valentin

    Political analyst and Host of the Uncommon Decency podcast on European affairs: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/uncommon-decency/id1534151181

  • Eboo Patel

    Founder and President, Interfaith America

  • Dalibor Rohac

    Senior fellow at AEI. Senior research fellow at Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, UK. Research associate at Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

  • Roger Partridge

    I'm a recovering lawyer, think tank co-founder and senior fellow. I write on the ideas and institutions that underpin freedom and prosperity. New Zealand is my vantage point, but the themes are universal.

  • Saeid Golkar

    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.

  • Leonora Barclay

    Head of Podcasts at Persuasion.

  • Matt Scherer

    Fellow at the Open Markets Institute. Proud AI contrarian. Which is synonymous with being an AI realist.

  • Marlene Laruelle

    I am Professor at Luiss University in Rome, and Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program at the George Washington University. I write Vivatopia, a Substack on political imaginaries, lived ideologies, and our political futures.

  • Charles Lane

    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.

  • Ines Burrell

    Geopolitical analyst focusing on structural dynamics across Eastern and Western Europe.

  • Stephen Morse

    Stephen J. Morse, J.D., Ph.D.,, a lawyer and psychologist, is Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law & Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

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