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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Best New Thinking: What’s Wrong with America?
Description: Lars Trägårdh does a deep dive into the social and political challenges confronting America.
The United States seems to be on the verge of some kind of Judgement Day. Extreme partisanship, a past (and future?) president facing seemingly endless indictments and legal entanglements, a profound loss of trust in institutions and leaders, citizens who tell pollsters that their country is heading in the wrong direction and they fear the future—despite objective economic conditions that are better than almost anywhere else. What’s wrong? Why the deep unhappiness, even depression? Is the American dream becoming a nightmare?
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