Adults Today Care Too Much What Young People Think

Desperate not to be put in the “old” category, grown-ups are unwilling to impart wisdom or exert badly needed authority. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 1 year ago

Why NYU was wrong to fire an instructor because his class was “too hard.”

Why NYU was wrong to fire an instructor because his class was “too hard.” | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 1 year ago

Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization

Grassroots activism and electoral reform are important. But only a political realignment can save America. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 1 year ago

The philosopher who can fix our economy

Henry George has much to teach us about power and privilege today. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 1 year ago

Against the College Admissions Essay

The SAT might have flaws. But the college essay is much worse. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

The Many Faces of Literary Censorship

Censoriousness on the left increasingly joins moral panic on the right. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

To Reform the Police, Join It

I spent 40 years as an officer in Baltimore. We need a new generation of transformational leaders. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

We Need Christopher Hitchens More Than Ever

But a decade after his death, technology and conformism stymie the free thinking that made him so compelling. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

The Collapse of Liberal Internationalism

What went wrong, and where to go from here. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

How to Keep Your Corporation Out of the Culture War

Eight steps business leaders can take to prevent ideological pressure and political conformity in the workplace. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

Michael Powell on Race, Class, and Free Speech

🎧 | Michael Powell and Yascha Mounk discuss the cultural transformation of America's elite institutions. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

Haidt and Lukianoff: The Polarization Spiral

How the right's monomania and the left's Great Awokening feed each other | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

Francis Fukuyama’s Defense of Liberalism

🎧 | Francis Fukuyama and Yascha Mounk on how to make the case for liberalism. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

Americans, Don't Envy European Speech Codes

Robust free expression is worth defending, even if it comes with significant costs and tradeoffs. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

How to Fix Our Broken Relationship with Covid Math

Four rules to improve reporting about risk. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

On Free Speech and America’s Future

🎧 | Caitlin Flanagan and Yascha Mounk discuss the importance of protecting the rights of our opponents. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

How to Boost Innovation

🎧  | Alex Tabarrok and Yascha Mounk discuss how to make America more agile and resilient in dealing with crises | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

The End of “Cancel Culture”?

Young Americans may return us to a culture of compassion and forgiveness. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

Don’t Apologize: If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself

If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself. A free society demands it. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

Goodbye to Hong Kong

The city's time as an open and liberal society has run out. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

The Best of Persuasion

On the first anniversary of Persuasion's founding, ten highlights from the past year's coverage. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

The Perils of 180ism

Stop blindly opposing your adversaries. Stick to your values and think for yourself. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

What Ever Happened to Flirting?

By assuming that any approach is malign unless proven otherwise, we lose something potentially risky—but also potentially wonderful. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

Kids Need Freedom, Too

At long last, states and parents are coming to the same conclusion: It is harmful to punish parents for letting their children take some risks. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

Fleeing Venezuela – Persuasion

Carlos Hernández feared for his life in Nicolás Maduro's brutal dictatorship. Here, he tells the harrowing story of his escape. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

The Empowering of the American Mind

We need to fix K-12 education. These 10 principles are a path for reform. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

Northwestern University President: Beliefs Aren't Facts

Academics who hold that it is sacrilege to question their ideas are putting free inquiry in danger, argue the president of Northwestern and one of his colleagues. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

America Is Flunking Math

We need to get racial politics out of the equation before it's too late. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 2 years ago

Why Governments Fail: An Interview with Tyler Cowen

Yascha Mounk and Tyler Cowen talk about populism, the failure of state institutions during the pandemic, and the value of economic growth.  | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

Keira Bell: My Story

As a teen, she transitioned to male but came to regret it. Here’s how it felt to enter history in the trans debate. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

Beware of Books A new moralism is gripping the literary world

A new moralism is gripping the literary world, treating grownups like children | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

The Rising Threat to Free Speech on Campuses

Younger academics are more willing to seek dismissal of divergent colleagues, a new report shows | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

John McWhorter: The Neoracists

A new religion is preached across America. It's nonsense posing as wisdom. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

The Insiders' Game

GameStop was a warning: Elites are weaponizing censorship to keep the outsiders out | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

The Insiders' Game

GameStop was a warning: Elites are weaponizing censorship to keep the outsiders out | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

A Taxonomy of Fear – How Speech Is Silenced

There is a pattern in the way speech is silenced. Understanding it can help us stand up to the illiberalism of this moment. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

If You Want Peace, Study War

Colleges are turning against the history of military conflict. But we forget these lessons at our peril. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

Remember Martin Luther King Jr.?

Kendi's antiracism won't work, but King's does. It is time to revive the nonviolence movement. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

They Tried to Cancel Me

A professor recalls the anguish of a false accusation | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

Please Stop Imposing American Views about Race on Us

Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens obscures more than it reveals. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

Elementary schools deliberately fail to teach knowledge, hurting children

Elementary schools deliberately fail to teach knowledge, hurting their most vulnerable students. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

Love Hurts: So let’s stop infantilizing women and demonizing men

So let’s stop infantilizing women and demonizing men | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

The Arnold Amendment

Naturalized citizens should be allowed to run for President. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

The Cancel Culture Checklist

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@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

The Cancel Culture Checklist

Six signs that show you're not just being criticized; you're being canceled. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

Americans Are Self-Censoring at Record Rates

The percentage of Americans afraid to share their political views has tripled. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

Closing Hong-Kong

The people of Hong Kong have bravely defended their freedom. But they are losing an uneven fight. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago

The End of Democracy in Poland

After a narrow victory in presidential elections on Sunday, the populist government has three more years to destroy Polish democracy. | Continue reading


@persuasion.community | 3 years ago