here. Welcome back to the rail alignment. Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. One of the big

questions of the moment is the past, present, and future of the American dream. My guest today,

the Atlantic's Yoni Applebaum, has a new book out on the topic, stuck, how the privileged and the

property broke the engine of American opportunity. In Yoni's telling, one of the ways we should

think through this American dream question is the ability of Americans opportunity. In Yoni's telling, one of the ways we should think through

this American dream question is the ability of Americans to move other places to pursue opportunities

if where they are currently living doesn't actually have any opportunity in the first place.

If we look to even our recent history in the 1950s and 1960s, people moved much, much more

frequent than they do today.

And especially if we look back to the 19th century, which is really the high of American mobility,

folks would just move all the time, both in their cities, states, and across the country,

if they saw better opportunities beckoning them.

This question of why people are not able to move in the same degree that they were able to

is a big one, but it also gets to attention that I was interested in covering in this episode,

which is maybe it isn't a great thing if everyone has to abandon their local communities

or their actual place of residence because those places themselves no longer have opportunities

themselves.

So we'll get to that question of investing in local communities

and states that might not be at the core of the economic growth that the coastal cities

and other parts of the country have had in this conversation. Huge thank you to the Foundation

for American Innovation for supporting the work of this podcast.

Yoni Applebaum, welcome to The Realignment.

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