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"The Good Fight," the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can beat authoritarian populism.Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone.Email: goodfightpod@gmail.comTwitter: @Yascha_MounkWebsite: http://www.persuasion.community

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Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk on Whether Democracy Needs Religion
Nov 2026 · 3 books
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Can Religion Save Democracy? How more faith not less can heal our public life
Matthew Kaemingk and Shadi Hamid
“Matthew Keming and Shadi Hamid. have written a book called Can Religion Save Democracy? How more faith not less can heal our public. Life”
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The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict
William T. Cavanaugh
“I would commend the book, uh, The Myth of Religious Violence by William Kavanaugh, who specifically looks at those wars of religion”
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Federalist No. 10
James Madison
“that clash between these two factions that Hamilton tried to uh that Madison tried to avoid in Federalist Ten is not totally defining our country”
Martin Wolf on Democratic Capitalism After Trump
Nov 2026 · 4 books
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Martin Wolf
“We talked about why it is that he has become more pessimistic since Publishing. The crisis of democratic capitalism. A few Years ago”
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
“if you read Bright Revisited and other kinds of works, there's good questions about the extent to which they were happy”
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
“Then this is of course what Brave New World was about”
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The Social Limits to Growth
Fred Hirsch
“A magnificent book. uh um uh published in the seventies by a man called Fred Hirsch, which you might know called The Social Limits to Growth”
The Good Fight Club: Trump Rebuked
Nov 2026 · 2 books
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Strangers in Their Own Land
Arlie Hochschild
“Ali Hogchild. The sociology professor at Berkeley, who is the author of Strangers in The Own Land”
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Stolen Pride
Arlie Hochschild
“as well as most recently stolen Fright”
Dan Williams on Why AI (Probably) Won’t Kill Us
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
“the kind of things that Charles Dickens wrote about, David Copperfield, et cetera”
Malcolm Gaskill on Why Our Ancestors Weren't as Superstitious as We Think
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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The Ruin of All: Witches and Their World in the New World
Malcolm Gaskill
“Markham, of course, is the author of many Interesting books about these subjects, including The ruin of all Which's life and death. In the new world”
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Worlds of Fear and Wonder: Living with a Supernatural Past and Present
Markham Gaskell
“As well as his latest Worlds of Fear and Wonder. Living with a supernatural Past and Present”
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The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island
Nils Bubandt
“an anthropologist called Nils Bubant, Danny Chantal, who wrote a book called The Empty Sea Show, which is an absolutely fantastic book”
James Marriott on the End of Reading
Oct 2026 · 8 books
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The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and The Dawn of a Post-Literate Society
James Marriott
“he is the author of a new book called The New Dark Ages, The Death of Reading and The Dawn of a Post Literate Society”
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
“Professors telling me that They'd spent their careers assigning books like Middle March or Ulysses”
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Ulysses
James Joyce
“Professors telling me that They'd spent their careers assigning books like Middle March or Ulysses”
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
“by Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death was the first sort of polemic to sound the alarm”
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The Enlightened Economy
Joel Mokyr
“the guy who I think makes this makes this argument most compellingly is the economist Joel Mockier, who's got a book called The Enlightened Economy”
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
Joel Mokyr
“another book called The Culture of Growth”
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Encyclopédie
Denis Diderot
“Joseph Henrik makes this point. Um or he draws attention to the study in one of his books, is that There does seem to be a causal connection between the numbers of copies of Dideris Encyclopedia”
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The Gutenberg Galaxy
Marshall McLuhan
“He makes a really good, I think it's the beginning of the Gutenberg Galaxy. He makes a sort of An interesting point”
Eliot Cohen on Why America Keeps Losing Wars It Should Win
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs
Cynthia Montgomery
“He has a really interesting new book out called The Strategist. How to think about war and Politics”
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The Military Balance
International Institute for Strategic Studies
“You know, we take out the double I double S military balance, we count up the number of tanks and planes and And so forth”
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On War
Carl von Clausewitz
“I feel like even for I I know I have a particularly erodite and so on listenership. I feel like Klauswitz is a is a constant reference, but unless you're a military historian or unless you're a military strategist, I don't know how many people have actually read Klausewitz”
David Deming on the Future of Universities in the Age of AI
Oct 2026
Why America’s Real Wealth Isn’t in Silicon Valley
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There
Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick
“That is the argument of Owen Zidder and Eric Zwick in The Everywhere Millionaire, who is really rich in America and how they got there”
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Dream Hoarders
Richard Reeves
“I think there's an interesting kind of echo between your book and a book by Richard Reeves called Dreamhoarders, both in some similarities and some differences of emphasis, right”
Luis Garicano on Why Europe Fell Behind
Oct 2026
Galen Druke on the Midterms
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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The Emerging Democratic Majority
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira
“the book The Emerging Democratic Majority. by Rotix Sarah and the co author”
Frank Furedi on the Case for Populism
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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In Defense of Populism
Frank Furedi
“he has written a book called In Defense of Populism”
Simon Sebag Montefiore on the Origins of the Modern Middle East
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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The World: A Family History
Simon Sebag Montefiore
“It's called The Cauldron, The Making of the Modern Middle East by Simon Sieback Montefiore”
Shashank Joshi on Why Russia Won't Invade NATO—Yet
Sep 2026
Jerry Kaplan on Why AI Won’t Kill Us All
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
“Let's start with Nick Bostrom. Now I've talked to Mick Nick Bostrom about this. He wrote that book a long time ago, Superintelligence. That's where the the word became popularized”
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Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know
Jerry Kaplan
“I spoke to a prominent uh founder in the AI legal space a few months ago. um in interviewing uh in doing interviews for my book”
Jacob Weisberg on the Contagion of Cowardice
Sep 2026 · 3 books
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Profiles in Cowardice
Jacob Weisberg
“he is the author of a new book just out called Profiles in, not courage, but cowardice”
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Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy
“there's a famous book by John of Kandy, which I must admit I've never read called Profiles and Courage”
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The Bush Tragedy
Jacob Weisberg
“I wrote a book called The Bush tragedy, which is, you know, immensely critical of him”
Judith Dada on the Rise of the AfD
Sep 2026
Sarah Longwell on How Democrats Can Defeat Trump
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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The Art of the Deal
Donald Trump
“somebody who wrote The Art of the Deal”
Jared Diamond on Whether Leaders Make History
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
“including his famous book on guns, germs and steel”
Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths (Rerun)
Aug 2026 · 2 books
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1-2-3 Magic: 3-Step Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy Parenting
Thomas W. Phelan
“One Two Three Magic is a fantastic book about how to use principles of behavioral psychology to help. um, kids uh manage their behavior”
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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
Gary Chapman
“I'm sure you're familiar with the Pop psych book about love languages”
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