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The Good Fight

Jeremiah Johnson on Why Gen Z Isn’t Actually Doomed

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk and Jeremiah Johnson examine the disconnect between economic data and public sentiment about young Americans’ prospects.  Jeremiah Johnson is the co-founder of the Center for New Liberalism. He hosts the New Liberal Podcast and writes at Infinite Scroll. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jeremiah Johnson discuss why young Americans think the economy is worse than it actually is, whether social media has made us permanently pessimistic about institutions, and how elite failures are now exposed in real time. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google X: @Yascha_Mounk & @JoinPersuasion YouTube: Yascha Mounk, Persuasion LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1

To me, the interesting thing is not why, you know, should we argue about lunch?

0:36.0

Who's correct about the question of the $28 lunch?

0:39.0

What's interesting here is why do we all think that society is doomed, that this generation

0:46.4

is doomed, when the numbers and the reality on the ground just don't bear that out?

0:52.8

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

1:01.4

Why do so many people today have such a relentlessly negative view of the world,

1:05.9

thinking that a host of measures that have measurably gotten better over the last 30 or 40 years are

1:11.6

supposedly worse.

1:14.6

Why is it that trust in institutions is at record lows?

1:20.6

And why is it that philosophically liberal ideas in particular have such hard standing in a lot of public discussions, particularly on social media.

1:31.4

Have the transformations of the media and the large role that social media now plays in our lives

1:37.5

just spiked the football, if that is the right American sports metaphor,

1:42.8

against the ideals of liberalism, against political moderation,

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