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<title><![CDATA[Yascha Mounk - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/33898.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Yascha Mounk]]></description><category domain="33898">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Resistance Is Gonna Be Woke]]></title>
							<link>https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-resistance-is-gonna-be-woke</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reports of a vibe shift are greatly exaggerated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World Happiness Report Is a Sham]]></title>
							<link>https://substack.com/home/post/p-159447473</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A case study in elite misinformation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New World Order: What Happens Next?]]></title>
							<link>https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/help-me-understand-the-new-world</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's easy to see what's happening but hard to intuit what comes next.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Equality Fails]]></title>
							<link>https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/alice-evans-on-why-equality-fails</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yascha Mounk and Alice Evans discuss why women have won equality in some countries but remain at the margin in many others.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Wokeness the Fault of Moderates or Radicals?]]></title>
							<link>https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/help-me-understand-whether-wokeness</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many progressives continue to deny that the left'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s embrace of identitarianism helped Donald Trump win the election. That is a key reason why,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as I argued last week, it is unlikely that Democrats will let go of wokeness anytime soon.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Larry Summers on What Went Wrong on Campus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/summers</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers also discuss the promise and perils of artificial intelligence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cancel Culture Cuts Both Ways]]></title>
							<link>https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/israel-palestine-cancel-culture-free-speech/675934/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All the more reason to defend genuine tolerance and free speech]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Media Got the Gaza Hospital Explosion Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2023%2F10%2Fgaza-hospital-explosion-misinformation-reporting%2F675719%2F</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amplifying dubious Hamas claims caused real damage. No wonder public trust in news reporting is so low.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Push Back Against the Identity Trap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-insidious-lie-that-we-cant-understand</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A novel ideology is haunting America. Over a stunningly brief span of time, a new set of ideas about the role that identity does'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and should'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'play in society has taken on astonishing power.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Goodbye to the Prophets of Doom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/economics-inequality-piketty-milanovic/674702/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conventional wisdom about the global economy is that the rich have been getting richer and the poor have been getting poorer. What if that isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t true?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happens When Antiracism Goes Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/lloyd#details</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vincent Lloyd is a Professor and Director of Africana Studies at Villanova University. His latest book is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Be a (True) Antiracist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/valdary#details</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In this week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Chlo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' Valdary discuss the flaws of the dominant paradigm in diversity, equity, and inclusion; why many of today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s interpersonal conflicts stem from a larger crisis of meaning; and how to engage in big debates about social issues...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Chill on Campus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-real-chill-on-campus/ar-AAYxrEY</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most students are open to real debate. But their colleges are failing them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Open Everything: End Covid Mandates Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/end-coronavirus-restrictions/621627/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In march 2020, I wrote that America should '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'cancel everything'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in response to the acute threat posed by COVID-19: Mass events should be postponed, companies should send employees home from the office, and schools should move classes online.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is the Beginning of the End of Covid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/omicron-end-of-pandemic/621089/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No matter the severity of the variant, the appetite for shutdowns or other large-scale social interventions simply isn't there.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Woke Ideas Harm Minority Communities]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/mcwhorter</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John McWhorter is an author, a member of the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Persuasion'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Board of Advisors, a Columbia University linguist, and a columnist for'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The New York Times. His latest book,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, argues that we must understand wokeness, quite...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Have Lost Control of the Narrative About Education]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/virginia-election-wakeup-call-democrats/620595/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Virginia is sending Democrats a warning: They've lost control of the narrative about education.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Latest Campus Cancellation Is Different]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/why-latest-campus-cancellation-different/620352/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reasons that had nothing to do with the lecture itself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So Much for a 'Foreign Policy for the Middle Class']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/so-much-for-a-foreign-policy-for-the-middle-class/ar-AANpELf</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fall of Kabul'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is a major disaster. It is a major disaster for the people of Afghanistan, who will now have to live under a theocratic regime that suppresses their most basic liberties, ruthlessly punishes dissenters, and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' proudly oppresses women.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perils of '180ism' in Public Debate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/mounk-the-perils-of-180ism?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjM3ODcxOCwicG9zdF9pZCI6Mzc5NzY2NTEsIl8iOiJseHV6LyIsImlhdCI6MTYyNDYxNjI4NCwiZXhwIjoxNjI0NjE5ODg0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNjE1NzkiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.NW5gluIKCTMF1B</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stop blindly opposing your adversaries. Stick to your values and think for yourself.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Four Principles for Reopening the Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/4-principles-reopening-economy/618545/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's stop pretending that the rules that made sense in April 2020 still make sense a year later.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem for Democrats With a 50-50 Senate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/problem-50-50-senate/617565/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A double victory in Georgia could create serious difficulties for Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and might even make it less likely for Biden to win reelection.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hate Wokeness? Vote Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/hate-wokeness-vote-biden/616845/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Removing the president from office should be a top priority for any voter who is genuinely concerned about the rise of illiberal forces.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coming Crisis of Legitimacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/coming-crisis-legitimacy/616340/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether Biden or Trump emerges as the winner, millions of Americans will likely believe that their candidate was robbed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Firing the Innocent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America needs a reckoning over racism. Punishing people who did not do anything wrong harms that important cause.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Are Pretending Coronavirus Is Over]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/virus-will-win/612946/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans are pretending that the pandemic is over. It certainly is not.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Easy Way Out--Preparing for a Darker Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/wu8VU3</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The past few months have been bleak. Every day has brought word of new casualties from the coronavirus. The world economy entered free fall. And even for those who do not have a sick relative or a mortgage that can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be paid, the isolation imposed by social distancing has begun to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is Just the Beginning of the National Shutdown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/national-shutdown-least-bad-option/608683/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People who now advocate that we choose the economy are not being honest about the consequences of that decision.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why a Trump Second Term Would Be So Much Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/modis-second-term-could-be-catastrophic/604159/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Narendra Modi has been emboldened by reelection. The American president could be too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boris Johnson's Radically Undemocratic Maneuver]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/boris-johnsons-radically-undemocratic-maneuver/596983/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yascha Mounk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His decision to temporarily suspend Parliament is the most dangerous assault on Britain's institutions in living memory.]]></description>
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