Yascha Mounk (@Yascha

Yascha Mounk

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Yascha Mounk

@Yascha_Mounk

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Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Dec 20, 2023
A wonderful way to finish a difficult year: The Identity Trap was chosen as a Best Book of 2023 by publications including The Economist, The Financial Times, and Prospect Magazine. If you want to understand the new ideology transforming our culture, please give it a look.
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Jul 15, 2017
Need a reminder of the human cost of dictatorship? All these are journalists who criticized Putin--and died under mysterious circumstances
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Oct 8, 2020
It's hard to get the right interns these days.
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Oct 29, 2023
It’s not anti-Semitic to criticize the Israeli government. It’s not anti-Semitic to put the current conflict in historical context. It’s not anti-Semitic to mourn the death of Palestinian civilians. But if you describe the slaughter of 1,400 civilians as “military action” or
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Mar 11, 2020
The Italian College of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care just published the most extraordinary medical document I’ve ever seen. To help people from Germany to America understand what we’re about to face, I am publishing translated extracts here. [Thread.]
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Mar 27, 2020
Wow. The German Embassy has just recommended that all German citizens who are currently in the United States return home as quickly as possible. That... tells you a lot about how badly America is handling the pandemic.
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Oct 10, 2023
It’s not only @Harvard. I have reviewed the Twitter and Instagram accounts of @Yale, @Princeton, @Columbia, @Stanford, @Dartmouth and @JohnsHopkins. Not a single one of them has issued a statement about the atrocities committed by Hamas.
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
May 8, 2022
The Taliban now require all women in the country to wear the burqa in public. We have failed the women of Afghanistan.
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Oct 18, 2023
CNN, BBC and NYT all sent push alerts blaming Israel for killing hundreds of civilians at the hospital. If, as now looks likely, it is confirmed that the cause was a misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad, will they send push alerts correcting the original story? Of course not.
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Oct 7, 2023
Twitter has become terrible. But the depressing truth of it is that anyone who spends five minutes of here gets a basic sense of the barbarity of what just happened in Israel. Anyone who spends five minutes browsing the headlines of NYT, WaPo, WSJ and Guardian has no idea.
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Aug 24, 2020
If you think the United States is the same as Nazi Germany you have, with all due respect, completely and utterly lost the plot.
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Jun 12, 2020
Just watched a two-hour focus group about American politics. Here's a few thoughts about it, in no particular order. 1) Twitter is not the real world. Twitter is not the real world. Twitter is not the real world. Don't believe me? Go talk (or listen) to some voters. [Thread.]
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Oct 1, 2020
Holy s**t. Over the course of three years, the number of Americans who say that they feel justified in using violence to achieve their political goals has gone up from 8 percent to over 33 percent.
Yascha Mounk
@Yascha_Mounk
Feb 11, 2021
A Pakistani-American doctor was fired *and is being prosecuted* because he gave an opened vaccine to anyone he could find rather than letting it go to waste. Apparently, it would have been more "equitable" to throw the vaccine out. This is madness.
nytimes.com
The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired. (Published 2021)
Ten doses of the Covid-19 vaccine would expire within hours, so a Houston doctor gave it to people with medical conditions, including his wife. What followed was “the lowest moment in my life,” Dr....