Yascha Mounk

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  • April 25, 2025
    Imagine this scenario. The interior minister of a country that considers itself a democracy reports scores of citizens to the police for making critical statements about her while...
  • April 18, 2025
    Recently, an enthusiast of the classics posted four translations of a passage from The Odyssey on X, asking his followers to pick their favorite. Three were by some of the...
  • March 21, 2025
    Today is World Happiness Day. So, like every year on March 20th, you are likely to see a lot of headlines reporting on the publication of the annual World Happiness Report....
  • January 30, 2025
    Many of my friends still seem to think that AI is “all hype.” On social media, viral posts claim that the progress of AI has stalled; that the technology can at best...