George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times

11/11/2025 56 min
George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times

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Podcast: The Good Fight (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian TimesPub date: 2025-11-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationYascha Mounk and George Packer discuss autocracy in literature and real life.
George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic. His latest book is The Emergency. 
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and George Packer discuss authoritarianism in fiction, living humanist virtues in morally complex times, and how the Democrats can defeat Donald Trump.
Note: This conversation was recorded on October 21, 2025.

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