E89. Yascha Mounk Believes Free Speech is Not a Partisan Value

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🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Yascha Mounk is the founder of Persuasion, an online community and publication for people who believe in the importance of the social practice of persuasion, and are determined to defend free speech and free inquiry against all its enemies. They seek to persuade people who disagree with them, rather than to mock or troll them. He and Bridget discuss the rise of the populism, why status anxiety is the strongest predictor of populist movement in society, the idea of white fragility, and why exhorting whites in the US to take on a strong collective racial identity is not the way to build a fair, multi-ethnic democracy in this country. They look at how many authoritarian leaders have come to power in the last 20 years, share their hope for the future, and examine the idea that many Americans don’t want to win the culture war, they want the culture war to go away.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
0:02.4	Now available on Apple Podcasts.
0:04.1	Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.
0:08.0	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friends, send smoke signals, whatever.
0:32.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you. your
0:33.0	feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:35.0	This week on the podcast we welcome
0:37.0	Yasha Monk.
0:38.0	He is the founder of Persuasion and the host of the Good Fight Podcast.
0:42.0	The man who's responsible for cancelling literally
0:46.2	everything.
0:46.6	The thing about that is that, you know, apparently people thought I wanted to cancel everybody.
0:54.0	I just wanted to, you know, cancel in-person events for a while.
0:58.9	I knew what you meant.
1:00.8	I didn't, I didn't misinterpret it. I didn't think people did but then we start to
1:04.4	cancelling everybody so you know I'm with yasha monk everybody say hello yasha
1:09.7	thank you for being here walking into walk-ins welcome just randomly this is what I love about
1:15.7	this show is that I can see somebody doing something cool and say hey come talk
1:20.9	about this immediately.
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