"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 ------------------------------------------ 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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