Yascha Mounk
Political scientist at Johns Hopkins who founded Persuasion and hosts The Good Fight.
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- Yascha Mounk is a German-American political scientist who writes about the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of populism.
- He is a professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University.
- In July 2020 he founded Persuasion, an online magazine and community defending the values of free societies.
- He hosts the podcast The Good Fight and has written five books, including The People vs.
- Democracy (2018) and The Identity Trap (2023).
Key facts
- Born
- 10 June 1982, Munich1
- Position
- Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University2
- Founded
- Persuasion (July 2020)1
- Podcast
- The Good Fight, as host1
- Books
- Stranger in My Own Country (2014); The People vs. Democracy (2018); The Age of Responsibility (2019); The Great Experiment (2022); The Identity Trap (2023)1
- Also
- Contributing writer, The Dispatch; publisher (Herausgeber) of Die Zeit2
- Education
- BA, Trinity College, Cambridge (2003); PhD, Harvard University1
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