Derek Thompson

San Francisco, LA, DC, New York. Doing that actually requires unwinding a lot of what liberalism has built up in terms of legal norms and legislation and stuff like environmental review. It requires unwinding a lot of that and getting back to basics. That's essentially what the book is trying to do.

San Francisco, LA, DC, New York. Doing that actually requires unwinding a lot of what liberalism has built up in terms of legal norms and legislation and stuff like environmental review. It requires unwinding a lot of that and getting back to basics. That's essentially what the book is trying to do.

It's a getting back to basics book about how to build old-fashioned liberals to solve the problems of a new age.

It's a getting back to basics book about how to build old-fashioned liberals to solve the problems of a new age.

It's a getting back to basics book about how to build old-fashioned liberals to solve the problems of a new age.

Yeah, and I think you said two things there that I find really interesting. One is I took a class at Northwestern about the degree to which, it's exactly this, the degree to which vibes of movies in certain eras are a reflection of the politics and geopolitics of the time.

Yeah, and I think you said two things there that I find really interesting. One is I took a class at Northwestern about the degree to which, it's exactly this, the degree to which vibes of movies in certain eras are a reflection of the politics and geopolitics of the time.

Yeah, and I think you said two things there that I find really interesting. One is I took a class at Northwestern about the degree to which, it's exactly this, the degree to which vibes of movies in certain eras are a reflection of the politics and geopolitics of the time.

And one factoid I remember from that class was exactly about the 1960s and 1970s where they said, you know, look at the Dirty Harry movies and the Rambo movies. Those guys were fighting against a system. They weren't like... They weren't a flavor of a guy defending a system, right? Like an honorable cop representing a series of honorable cops going back generation after generation.

And one factoid I remember from that class was exactly about the 1960s and 1970s where they said, you know, look at the Dirty Harry movies and the Rambo movies. Those guys were fighting against a system. They weren't like... They weren't a flavor of a guy defending a system, right? Like an honorable cop representing a series of honorable cops going back generation after generation.

And one factoid I remember from that class was exactly about the 1960s and 1970s where they said, you know, look at the Dirty Harry movies and the Rambo movies. Those guys were fighting against a system. They weren't like... They weren't a flavor of a guy defending a system, right? Like an honorable cop representing a series of honorable cops going back generation after generation.

It was a guy fighting against the system. And I was totally in keeping with this idea in the 1970s that like this sort of collectivist era of the New Deal was just run amok. It was too much bureaucracy. It was too much the man trying to tell you what to do. The real heroes are the ones that push back against the man.

It was a guy fighting against the system. And I was totally in keeping with this idea in the 1970s that like this sort of collectivist era of the New Deal was just run amok. It was too much bureaucracy. It was too much the man trying to tell you what to do. The real heroes are the ones that push back against the man.

It was a guy fighting against the system. And I was totally in keeping with this idea in the 1970s that like this sort of collectivist era of the New Deal was just run amok. It was too much bureaucracy. It was too much the man trying to tell you what to do. The real heroes are the ones that push back against the man.

And you can kind of hear echoes of that even in Reagan's own rhetoric where he says the scariest words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. That was the beginning of this anti-institutional flavor that I think is still alive here in America. So what you said reminded me of that. But then going to this idea of like, what do you do about the fact?

And you can kind of hear echoes of that even in Reagan's own rhetoric where he says the scariest words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. That was the beginning of this anti-institutional flavor that I think is still alive here in America. So what you said reminded me of that. But then going to this idea of like, what do you do about the fact?

And you can kind of hear echoes of that even in Reagan's own rhetoric where he says the scariest words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. That was the beginning of this anti-institutional flavor that I think is still alive here in America. So what you said reminded me of that. But then going to this idea of like, what do you do about the fact?

that trust in institutions is kind of gone. And I'm gonna try to be hyperbolic here, but it's very difficult. It's very difficult to find a single institution that hasn't seen an absolute collapse in trust in the last 30 years. The presidency, the Congress, the courts, science, big companies, tech companies,

that trust in institutions is kind of gone. And I'm gonna try to be hyperbolic here, but it's very difficult. It's very difficult to find a single institution that hasn't seen an absolute collapse in trust in the last 30 years. The presidency, the Congress, the courts, science, big companies, tech companies,

that trust in institutions is kind of gone. And I'm gonna try to be hyperbolic here, but it's very difficult. It's very difficult to find a single institution that hasn't seen an absolute collapse in trust in the last 30 years. The presidency, the Congress, the courts, science, big companies, tech companies,