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Yascha Mounk
Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University; Founder, Persuasion; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
Yascha Mounk is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, founder of the publishing platform and online community Persuasion, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and hosts “The Good Fight” podcast. Mounk was previously a lecturer at Harvard University, a senior fellow at New America, and executive director of the Renewing the Centre team at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. A frequent speaker and regular contributor to many publications, his latest book is The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure. His previous books include The People vs. Democracy and Stranger in My Own Country.
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