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Why Nothing Works | Glenn Loury, John McWhorter & Marc Dunkelman | The Glenn Show
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Sep 19, 2025
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Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn Loury (Brown University, Hoover Institution, Self-Censorship), John McWhorter (Columbia, New York Times, Lexicon Valley), and Marc Dunkelman (Brown University, Why Nothing Works). Recorded September 6, 2025.
- 0:00Why Marc thinks nothing works
- 6:45Who decides the winners and losers in public trade-offs?
- 12:50Penn Station and public interest logjams
- 20:29Marc: We have Trump because people feel that government doesn’t work
- 28:17Two progressive conceptions of power
- 33:03Finding the balance between centralized and dispersed power
- 39:05Ok, nothing works. So how do we get things working?
- 51:28Marc: We need a return to Hamiltonian governing
- 55:03The new class of moderate Democrats trying to get things done
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