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.

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.

As a freelance journalist, he has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Slate, and Die Zeit.

[10] In July 2020, he founded Persuasion, an online magazine,[11][12] and in February 2024 the Atlantic cut ties with Mounk after rape allegation.

[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.