Timothy Garton Ash on Europe’s Political Fragmentation
Published: May 9, 2026
Duration: 1:10:44
Yascha Mounk and Timothy Garton Ash discuss how Britain’s shift toward populism reflects broader European trends.
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe and writes the newsletter History of the Present. His upcoming book, Europe in 7½ Chapters, will be published in October 2026.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Timothy Garton Ash discuss the crisis of Labour and rise of Reform, why Europeans are struggling to adapt to a new political, cultural, and technological age, and the future of the war in Ukraine.
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