Michael Powell on Race, Class, and Free Speech

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Michael Powell is a reporter for The New York Times, covering issues including free speech, education and identity politics. His reporting takes him from the campuses of elite universities and private schools to the halls of the ACLU. In this week’s conversation, Michael Powell and Yascha Mounk discuss whether the left has cooled on free speech, what’s lost in the national discussion about critical race theory, and how establishment institutions across the United States are being transformed. 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: podcast@persuasion.community Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John T. Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 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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1:00.0	Hi everyone, my name is Madhya Uphsoom.
1:02.0	I am a fellow in the foreign policy program at the
1:05.4	Brookings Institution and I recently published an article on persuasion titled
1:10.2	Biden was wrong on Afghanistan.
1:13.2	This was a response to a compelling piece
1:16.1	by my colleague John Raouch, who wrote a piece titled
1:20.2	Biden was right on Afghanistan. 20 years after America removed the Taliban from power
1:29.7	it is an agonizing outcome that in August we saw the Taliban return to power and it's especially
1:36.7	agonizing given the enormous costs of the war. Of course this is US and NATO troops who lost their lives, this is money spent,
1:46.7	but this is also the scale of the destruction and loss of life in Afghanistan,
1:51.7	of both civilians and Afghan security forces.
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