Today I have the privilege of welcoming Marc Dunkelman to the podcast. Marc is a research fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University and the author of a new book, Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring it Back. We begin by discussing a key premise of his book: progressivism is, and always has been, split between a Hamiltonian impulse to push power up and a Jeffersonian impulse to push power down. Marc describes how the later impulse took over left-wing movements by the late 60s and has produced a government that seems startlingly ineffective.

How did the "establishment" become so hated? How can our government prove that it is a capable institution? Will Trump’s failures give Democrats an easy out and stop a needed course correction?

Tune in for a great conversation on all that and more.

A transcript of this podcast is available on the post page on our website.

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