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Inequality undermined the common faith that Americans need to create a successful multi-everything democracy.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Declining Labor Force Participation
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
This is the age of discretionary income. People are supposed to forgo earnings opportunities in order to lead richer lives.
David Brooks • Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
The narrative of Free America remained as inflexible as any ideology: tax cuts and deregulation = freedom and prosperity. Decade after decade you encountered its mantra, like the rituals of a cargo cult, on the website of the Cato Institute, the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, broadcasts of The Rush Limbaugh Show, and the platform of the
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Isabel V. Sawhill • Social Capital: Why We Need It and How We Can Create More of It
The populist-nationalist movement
Arnold Kling • The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides
When it comes to the future of our world, we have lost our way in a fundamental manner, and not just on a few details. We must return to principles, but we do not always have good principles to guide us. We have strayed from the ideals of a society based on prosperity and the rights and liberties of the individual, and we do not know how to return
... See moreTyler Cowen • Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
OUR INDEFINITELY OPTIMISTIC WORLD