Yascha Mounk

Yascha Benjamin Mounk (born 10 June 1982) is a German-born American political scientist. As a freelance journalist he has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and Slate. He runs a podcast called The Good Fight. , he is Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D. C. On October 31, 2023 he lectured the National War College on the dangers of populism. Early life Mounk was born and raised in Munich. His mother was Jewish and a socialist, and left Poland in 1969 after the purge of Jews from positions in the Communist apparatus. Much of his mother's side of the family was killed in the Holocaust. He has said he felt like a stranger in Germany, and though German is his native language, he never felt accepted as a "true German" by his peers.