Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder on Fighting Illiberalism, Right and Left

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder are writers and professors of history at Carleton College. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder discuss the predominance of certain progressive orthodoxies on college campuses; why opponents of left wing censoriousness should also resist illiberalism in education from the right; and how we can stand up for philosophically liberal, humanistic values without becoming bitter, reactionary, or uncivil. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. 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: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	I want to be able to bat ideas around even if it's not evidence based right like just to test them out
0:36.4	There are places for that kind of idea testing that the classroom it really should embody that and it's tragic to me that we are
0:46.0	making it into this kind of bloodless dower hyper serious exercise where everyone's views on everything are fixed and must not change
0:57.0	and that's disturbing.
0:59.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:21.1	I have been incredibly keen to see Donald Trump defeated at the ballot box and removed from American politics through the popular will since the beginnings of his rise.
1:27.0	Nevertheless, I have at many junctures been skeptical about attempts to remove him from our politics by other means.
1:43.0	Another went along with hopes of using the Electoral College to persuade some electors to change the mind. I was skeptical of both of the attempts to impeach
2:01.0	Donald Trump in good part because they predictably failed in many ways strengthening rather than weakening his position.
2:12.0	I also was skeptical of the charges against Donald Trump in the state of
2:19.5	New York because they seemed to be based on a very dubious legal theory and were advanced by a prosecutor who had made it a key part of his campaign to go after the former president.
2:39.8	The federal charges which have now been filed against Donald Trump look a little different.
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