"Mounk has told the story of the Great Awokening better than any other writer who has attempted to make sense of it."
- The Washington Post
"Mounk’s painstaking and thoroughly researched account is a revelation."
- The Daily Telegraph
"Among the most insightful and important books written in the last decade on democracy and its current torments, because it also shows us a way out of the trap."
- Jonathan Haidt
"Indispensable."
- David French
Now out in paperback!
"Indispensable."
- David French
Yascha Mounk is an expert on the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of populism.
The author of five books that have been translated into twenty languages, Yascha is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, the Founder of Persuasion, and the host of The Good Fight podcast. He writes a weekly column for over 100,000 subscribers on Substack, is a Contributing Writer at The Dispatch, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Humane Sciences, and serves as a publisher (Herausgeber) of Die Zeit. You can subscribe to Yascha's weekly column and podcast here!
PODCAST
As the host of "The Good Fight" podcast, Yascha interviews leading writers, thinkers and statesmen about their work and its implications for the defense of a free society.
Recent guests include Francis Fukuyama, Anne Applebaum, Geoffrey Hinton, Garry Kasparov, Noam Chomsky, Jill Lepore, Steven Pinker, Daron Acemoglu, Paul Krugman and David Miliband. You can subscribe here.
WRITING
Yascha writes a weekly column for his over 100,000 subscribers on Substack. Please subscribe to get his writing directly into your inbox! (It's also available in French or German.)
SPEAKING
Fluent in English, German, French and Italian, Yascha is a frequent keynote speaker at high-profile events, and has provided commentary for leading radio and television programs around the world.
Yascha has spoken at the United Nations, the World Bank, the United States Congress, the Department of State, the House of Commons, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Economist 175th Anniversary Festival, the Asahi Shinbun Annual Festival, and the G30, among others.
