Graeme Wood on January 6th, Saudi Arabia, and Interviewing Extremists | The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk and Graeme Wood discuss why “the dumbest coup in history” failed (and how a future coup might succeed).

Graeme Wood is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a lecturer in political science at Yale University. He is the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Graeme Wood discuss why the January 6th insurrection does not resemble other coups; his experience interviewing Mohammed bin Salman and being Richard Spencer's middle school lab partner; and the need for general interest journalists whose curiosity is not constrained by their identity.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 The January 6th hearings
3:57 Could the coup have succeeded?
15:50 Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi Arabia
23:40 The anti-corruption campaign trap
27:53 Joe Biden's approach to Saudi Arabia
33:03 What does ISIS really want?
37:19 How do we understand extremism?
42:55 Richard Spencer & the rise of the alt-right
47:39 How to understand people we fundamentally disagree with
52:41 The merits of generalist reporting

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