Yascha Mounk is a political scientist, a lecturer at Harvard and a senior fellow at New America. His latest book is The People versus Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It. It was an honor to talk to him about politics in the world today and the threat to democracy.
I interviewed Shannon Messenger, the NY Times bestselling author of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series and the Skyfall trilogy about writing, world-building and characters with moral gray areas.