Yascha Mounk

Yascha Mounk
Mounk in 2016
Born
Yascha Benjamin Mounk

(1982-06-10) 10 June 1982 (age 42)
Munich, West Germany
Nationality
  • German
  • American
Occupations
  • Academic
  • journalist
Political partySocial Democratic Party of Germany (c. 1990s – 2015)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Age of Responsibility (2015)
Doctoral advisorMichael Sandel[1]
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Websiteyaschamounk.com Edit this at Wikidata

Yascha Benjamin Mounk[2] (born 10 June 1982) is a German-American political scientist and author. He is Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. In July 2020, he founded Persuasion, an online magazine devoted to defending the values of free societies.

As a freelance journalist, Mounk has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Slate, and German weekly newspaper Die Zeit.

  1. ^ Newman, Lainey A.; Zheng, Ruth (7 May 2018). ""Intellectual Powerhouse": Yascha Mounk Examines the Future of Democracy". The Harvard Crimson. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference The Age of Responsibility was invoked but never defined (see the help page).