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The American Dream is falling apart | Derek Thompson: Full Interview


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"The disease is the fact that liberalism, which used to be an ideology of building, has become an ideology of blocking."


00:00:00 Affordability vs upward mobility

00:00:59 From collapse to abundance
00:01:45 Supply-side progressivism
00:02:49 An agenda of abundance
00:03:18 A look at liberalism
00:04:15 The failure of liberal housing policy
00:05:54 The unraveling of The American Dream
00:07:14 City housing supply
00:11:16 The freedom of housing abundance
00:14:08 Homelessness is a housing problem
00:16:40 The tragedy of good intentions
00:18:31 A new set of problems
00:20:27 Corporate power
00:22:51 The untapped potential of government efficiency
00:23:53 The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
00:27:02 Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
00:30:06 Should government be more or less effective?
00:33:47 A new political order
00:36:39 Neoliberalism and deregulation
00:38:20 A fast, effective government
00:38:44 Innovation requires implementation
00:39:35 A story of technology
00:41:29 How do we accelerate science?
00:44:03 Ransacking American science
00:46:27 A culture of experimentation
00:47:30 The implementation of Penicillin
00:51:36 Operation Warp Speed
00:57:11 The anti-social generation
01:01:04 300 hours of leisure time
01:01:48 The privatization of attention
01:06:53 Optimizing ourselves out of relationships
01:07:55 The social costs of the anti-social century
01:09:13 Amistics
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About Derek Thompson:
Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic and host of the podcast Plain English. He is the author of Hit Makers and the co-author of Abundance alongside Ezra Klein, which explores the case for renewing the politics of plenty in the modern world.

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