Yascha Mounk

Yascha Mounk is a lecturer on government at Harvard and the author of The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It.

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What Populists Do to Democracies

According to our research, populist governments have deepened corruption, eroded individual rights, and inflicted serious damage on democratic institutions.
- Yascha Mounk and Jordan Kyle
- Dec 26, 2018
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Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture

Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness, and race isn’t either.
- Yascha Mounk
- Oct 10, 2018
Mike Nayna

What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia

Three scholars wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to argue for ridiculous conclusions.
- Yascha Mounk
- Oct 5, 2018
Matt Dorfman

America Is Not a Democracy

How the United States lost the faith of its citizens—and what it can do to win them back
- Yascha Mounk
- March 2018 Issue