Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Abundance (2025)

Diagnoses the failure of liberal institutions to keep building, and highlights the tension between progressives' dismissal of economic growth and conservatives' dislike of government intervention. This is the most serious live challenge to my position. They believe the machine can be repaired by clearing the friction out of it; I think the friction is a symptom and the anachronisms are the disease.

Read it asking: Is the problem that liberal institutions cannot build, or that nobody has told them what to build?

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