Is There a Meta Myth?

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Desmond: I think that there's a story about historical reckoning. There is something special about seeing our government as not just, you know, an outside force, but something that we all contribute to. He says the American public is ready for a different kind of conversation when it comes to inequality. "I like America. I want to make America better," Desmond writes.

Pulitzer Prize winning sociologist, professor at Princeton University and author of the book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond joins Adam this week to discuss the physical effects poverty has on the people living in it, the lack of a national conversation about the housing crisis, and how the "American Dream" story is hurting us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.