Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy.
He is a professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, the founder of the digital magazine Persuasion, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of The Great Experiment and The Identity Trap ..
Born in Germany to Polish parents, Mounk received his BA in history from Trinity College Cambridge, and his PhD in government from Harvard University.
Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy