Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works Marc Dunkelman is a fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. His most recent book is Why Nothing Works. In this conversation, Yascha Mounk and Marc Dunkelman explore the challenges facing big projects in the U.S., the origins of progressivism, and how Donald Trump fits into this story. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. To get ad-free access to all of The Good Fight, including full weekly conversations and frequent bonus episodes, please subscribe to my Substack [insert link: www.yaschamounk.substack.com]. This will also allow you to get Yascha’s weekly column about current events and big ideas directly into your inbox. If you are already a subscriber but have not yet set up this podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Mickey Freeland, and Leonora Barclay Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	We can't build high-speed grid.
0:32.1	We can't build housing.
0:33.5	We can't build clean energy facilities.
0:35.7	We can't connect the clean energy that we would get from those facilities to the grid.
0:40.2	We just can't do things.
0:42.9	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:51.3	My guest today is Mark Duncanman.
0:55.0	Mark is a fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute
0:59.7	and the author of Why Nothing Works, Who Killed Progress and How to Bring It Back?
1:06.7	We talked about that sense of nothing working.
1:09.3	That sense that it's basically become impossible
1:11.4	to build infrastructure projects, that building housing is so difficult that we now all pay
1:16.8	far too much in rent or in our mortgage, that we're giving up hope on government actually
1:22.9	being able to deliver on any kind of ambitious project.
1:27.7	We talked about the roots of this problem, which Duncanman identifies in a kind of
1:33.6	left-wing progressive revolt against the concentration of power and the power in some ways
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