Bonus Interview: Yascha Mounk On The Importance Of Defending Liberalism, Unjust Firings, And More

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jesse interviews Yascha Mounk about the threats liberalism is facing from both the left and the right, and Yascha introduces a new platform he is launching to help stem the tide. The duo also discuss Yascha's great but infuriating article in The Atlantic, "Stop Firing the Innocent," the origins of the gender wage gap, antifa, the racial politics of police reform, and more. Make sure to check out persuasion.community, which should be live by the time you read this.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to a bonus episode of Blocked and Reported.
0:03.0	I'm Jesse Single.
0:04.4	It's just me today.
0:05.4	No Katie.
0:06.4	Huge relief as far as I'm concerned.
0:08.2	Today's episode is an interview with Yasha Mug, an extremely important writer and thinker
0:11.8	who'll be introducing himself shortly.
0:13.9	There are two versions of this episode.
0:15.6	The free version, which is about a half hour, includes our conversation about the deep threats
0:19.7	facing liberalism on all sides at the moment, as well as an exciting new project Yasha has
0:24.0	launched to help stem the tide.
0:25.8	The Patron's only version then proceeds for another 25 minutes in part to discuss an
0:29.4	article Yasha recently wrote for The Atlantic about a spate of unjust social media-fueled
0:34.3	firings, the true origins of the gender wage gap, the racial politics of police reform, and
0:39.9	some other stuff as well.
0:41.7	One minor pre-self correction from that section.
0:44.6	At one point I say that Majdi Wadi, the owner of a Middle Eastern food purveyor in Minneapolis
0:48.7	got fired.
0:49.7	He didn't get fired, I misspoke.
0:51.2	Rather, his business incurred a great deal of damage as a result of a social media outrage.
0:55.8	This will all make sense in context, I swear.
0:58.2	The whole reason I was able to research, record, and edit a bonus episode of Blockter
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