Season 5 · Episode 5
The Government is the Solution Episode
The Last Best Hope? · Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University
November 26, 202131m 22s
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Show Notes
From the 1980s until quite recently, the mood music of American politics was to “roll back” the public programmes created during Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Now, taxes and spending are rising and the New Deal – maybe in the guise of the “Green New Deal” – is cool again. Maybe government is seen, once again, as the solution to our problems rather than the problem itself. And yet polls show that faith in government remains low while vicious polarisation stymies any 1930s-style attempt to use government to bring the country together. So, can government once again be the solution? Adam discusses these issues with Eric Rauchway and Sid Milkis.
The Producer is Emily Williams
The Producer is Emily Williams
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