Mounk was born and raised in Munich. His mother was Jewish and a socialist[citation needed],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 had been killed in the Holocaust.[3] 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.[4]
Mounk read history at Trinity College,Cambridge,and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2003.[5][6] He then received a PhD from Harvard University in the United States,with the dissertation The Age of Responsibility:On the Role of Choice,Luck,and Personal Responsibility in Contemporary Politics and Philosophy.[2] He remained in the US as a lecturer on government,and was named a senior fellow in the Political Reform Program at the think tank New America.[7][8] Mounk became an American citizen in 2017.[9]
In July 2020,he founded Persuasion,an online magazine,[11][12] and in February 2024 the Atlantic cut ties with Mounk after rape allegation.[13] In September 2024,Mounk took up a role as visiting professor at Sciences-Po Paris.[14]
In a February 2018 interview published in Süddeutsche Zeitung,Mounk stated that he had changed his position on nationalism. He initially considered it a relic of the past that must be overcome,but he now advocates an "inclusive nationalism" to head off the threat of aggressive nationalism.[17] On the German television newscast Tagesthemen,he stated that Germany is on a "historically unique experiment,namely to transform a mono-ethnic and mono-cultural democracy into a multi-ethnic one."[18] In the Israeli newspaper Haaretz,Mounk advised the "liberal camp" to adopt this inclusive nationalism to foster a multi-ethnic and democratic society:"The key ... is the adoption of the populist demand that people and nations should again feel they have control of their lives or their destiny."[19]
Bibliography
Books
Stranger in my own country: a Jewish family in modern Germany. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014.
↑ Does the Political Scientist Who Foresaw the Trump Era Still Believe Democracy Has a Future?, archive.is, Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz, 29 March 2017; The key, says Mounk with an ironic smile, is in the slogan often used by populists, also popular among Brexit supporters: to give people a feeling they have a control over their lives, and that your own nation has control over its destiny. In order for people to feel that, they have to be convinced that they can live in a multi-ethnic and democratic society and still be better off materially, and the liberal camp must learn how to embrace nationalism.
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