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The Good Fight

The Good Fight Club: Russian Drones in Poland, Low Literacy in Schools, and Can Anyone Rein in Trump?

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk, Ivan Krastev, Amanda Ripley, and Mike Pesca discuss what the Russian drones shot down in Poland mean for NATO, the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent decision on immigration, how the Democrats can hold Donald Trump to account, and declining reading rates in U.S. schools. Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna. Amanda Ripley is the co-founder of Good Conflict, a media and training company that helps people reimagine conflict, and the author of High Conflict, The Smartest Kids in the World, and The Unthinkable. Mike is the host of The Gist, the longest-running daily news and analysis podcast in existence.  Email: [email protected] Podcast production by Mickey Freeland. 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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0:04.0

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0:09.0

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0:10.0

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0:15.0

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0:23.3

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0:24.9

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0:27.3

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0:28.6

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0:30.5

Unfortunately, I have to add one more thing before we get going with this episode.

0:36.9

We recorded the episode on the morning of

0:39.7

September 10th. It is releasing on the morning of September 11th. In between, we got the tragic

0:46.7

news that Charlie Kirk has been shot and killed at Utah Valley University. We were obviously not able to address this on the podcast.

0:57.0

I did write a quick reaction piece to this

1:01.0

which you can read on my sub-stack.

1:05.0

Political violence is descending on the United States.

1:12.6

In the last months alone, we had the attempt to assassinate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania,

1:21.6

the killing of a healthcare CEO in Midtown Manhattan, the killing of two attendees at a gala at the

1:31.1

Jewish Museum in Washington DC, the killing of Melissa Hortman, Minnesota State

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