
Why Nothing Works
Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
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A provocative exploration about the architecture of power, the forces that stifle us from getting things done, and how we can restore confidence in democratically elected government.
America was once a country that did big things—we built the world’s greatest rail network, a vast electrical grid, interstate highways, abundant housing, the Social Security system, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and more. But today, even while facing a host of pressing challenges—a housing shortage, a climate crisis, a dilapidated infrastructure—we feel stuck, unable to move the needle. Why?
America is today the victim of a vetocracy that allows nearly anyone to stifle progress. While conservatives deserve some blame, progressives have overlooked an unlikely culprit: their own fears of “The Establishment.” A half-century ago, progressivism’s designs on getting stuff done were eclipsed by a desire to box in government. Reformers put speaking truth to power ahead of exercising that power for good. The ensuing gridlock has pummeled faith in public institutions of all sorts, stifled the movement’s ability to deliver on its promises, and, most perversely, opened the door for MAGA-style populism.
A century ago, Americans were similarly frustrated—and progressivism pointed the way out. The same can happen again. Marc J. Dunkelman vividly illustrates what progressives must do if they are going to break through today’s paralysis and restore, once again, confidence in democratically elected government. To get there, reformers will need to acknowledge where they’ve gone wrong. Progressivism’s success moving forward hinges on the movement’s willingness to rediscover its roots.
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Politics today doesn’t look much like it did fifty years ago. Electorates that were once divided by economics—with blue-collar workers supporting leftwing parties while the wealthy trended right—are now more likely to split along cultural lines. Campaigns have gone high-tech, hoping to turn electioneering into a science. Meanwhile, a permanent class of political consultants has emerged, with teams of pollsters, message gurus, and field operatives. Taken together, all this amounts to a silent revolution that has transformed politics across much of the globe.
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Why We’re Getting Poorer
- A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How We Can Fix It
- De: Cahal Moran
- Narrado por: Cahal Moran
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Did you know that while we think of money as notes issued by the government, the truth is that the overwhelming majority of money today is credit created by private banks? Did you know that the reason housing keeps getting less accessible is because we haven’t found a way to separate houses from land in our policies? And did you know that far from globalisation being a mystical force, certain countries and currencies have dominated the way it has played out – to their own advantage?
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must listen
- De Anonymous User en 05-22-25
De: Cahal Moran
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Who Is Government?
- The Untold Story of Public Service
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Michael Lewis, Sarah Vowell, John Lanchester, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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The government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It’s also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it’s made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply consequential and beneficial to everyone. Michael Lewis invited his favorite writers, including Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell, to join him in finding someone doing an interesting job for the government and writing about them.
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Imagine what we could achieve if we actually understood
- De Anonymous User en 03-24-25
De: Michael Lewis
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The Unaccountability Machine
- Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
- De: Dan Davies
- Narrado por: Peter Dickson
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When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.
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Illuminating.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-12-25
De: Dan Davies
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Money, Lies, and God
- Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
- De: Katherine Stewart
- Narrado por: Patricia Rodriguez
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings, and services at extremist churches, and profiles the people who want to tear it all down.
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Describes a well funded international fascist cult
- De marwalk en 03-24-25
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Abundance
- The Future Is Better Than You Think
- De: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
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Space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years.
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Perhaps multiply his time estimates by 10
- De Rick en 11-06-21
De: Steven Kotler, y otros
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We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- De: Musa al-Gharbi
- Narrado por: Musa al-Gharbi
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Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, each tied to the rise of a new elite—the symbolic capitalists.
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Insightful view into “symbolic capitalists”
- De Paul en 10-13-24
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Coming Clean
- The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left
- De: Eric Heinze
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
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Leftists have long taught that people in the West must take responsibility for centuries of classism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other gross injustices. Of course, right-wingers constantly ridicule this claim for its "wokeness." In Coming Clean, Eric Heinze rejects the idea that we should be less woke. In fact, we need more wokeness, but of a new kind. Yes, we must teach about these bleak pasts, but we must also educate the public about the left's own support for regimes that damaged and destroyed millions of lives for over a century.
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Waste Land
- A World in Permanent Crisis
- De: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
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We are entering a new era of global cataclysm in which the world faces a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, the end of both monarchy and empire, and countless other dangers. In Waste Land, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and author of more than twenty books on world affairs, incisively explains how we got here and where we are going.
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Climate / Population Alarmism in a Mask
- De ElovesK en 02-07-25
De: Robert D. Kaplan
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Poverty for Profit
- How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor
- De: Anne Kim
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lam
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Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the "corporate poverty complex," a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor.
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Chokepoints
- American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
- De: Edward Fishman
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
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It used to be that ravaging another country’s economy required blockading its ports and laying siege to its cities. Now all it takes is a statement posted online by the U.S. government. In Chokepoints, Edward Fishman, a former top State Department sanctions official, takes us deep into the back rooms of power to reveal the untold history of the last two decades of U.S. foreign policy, in which America renounced the gospel of globalization and waged a new kind of economic war.
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Interesting
- De Craig C. en 06-05-25
De: Edward Fishman
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The Technological Republic
- Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
- De: Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska
- Narrado por: Nicholas W. Zamiska
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In this groundbreaking treatise, Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition, arguing that in order for the U.S. and its allies to retain their global edge—and preserve the freedoms we take for granted—the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges, including the new arms race of artificial intelligence. The government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that has propelled Silicon Valley’s success.
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- De Marion B. McGovern en 02-28-25
De: Alexander C. Karp, y otros
Sort of boring
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Only through the beginning, so still on the fence about the argument. Why was Biden so unpopular if he was doing the right thing?
Bad sound quality!
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Must Read
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More historical than practical
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This is a fine and interesting contribution to modern political debates. However, the book struggles when it comes to defining solutions. Although it acknowledges their excesses, the book mourns the disappearance of bold government leaders like Robert Moses. I sympathize with this feeling, but we restricted the power of figures like Moses for good reason. The author distances himself from recent movements that aimed to fix some of these problems Like the so-called “YIMBYs,” because they are too “Jeffersonian“ for his tastes.
Instead, he calls for a return to “Hamiltonian“ governance. Meaning a stronger state wielding power boldly. However, he is not able to define what he thinks this means in practical terms. This would entail hard trade-offs, so I can forgive him for avoiding the subject. But for real change, we must face these issues head on. I think the book suffers for not taking “Jeffersonian“ solutions more seriously. In particular supporting the free market to do what it does more effectively.
Regardless, this book will be a good introduction to the complexities facing reform minded Progressives, and a useful supplement to other texts like Abundance.
A fine contribution to the abundance discourse, but lacking in solutions
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Probably the most frustrating feature is an insistence on labeling everything either Hamiltonian or Jeffersonian. Every other sentence is one or the other, and there are even gems like "These were the ripples created by throwing a Jeffersonian rock into a Hamiltonian pond". The first hundred times I saw Jeffersonian, I was wondering did he mean the Jefferson that was a slave-owning country squire, or the Jefferson who celebrated the bloodbath of the French revolution, or the Jefferson whose slippery political machinations make Mitch McConnell look straight by comparison. By extensive repetition and contrast, it became clear what the author meant was centralization vs decentralization, which are concepts which exist in any democracy and don't need to be tied to particular historical figures loaded with baggage. The book could likely be 20% shorter if he'd written H for Hamiltonian and J for Jeffersonian, or better yet D vs C.
As a political analysis of the 20th century, it falls far behind What's the Matter with Kansas or Nixonland.
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