2023: OCTOBER 05 // A Liberalism That Builds: Ezra Klein in Conversation with Professor Amy E. Lerman
October 5, 2023

October 5, 2023
California’s deepest problems—the skyrocketing cost of housing, the lagging development of clean energy, the traffic choking the state—reflect an inability of Democratic governments to build real things in the real world quickly and affordably. The result is liberal governance that routinely fails to achieve liberal outcomes.
How did we get here? And what can we do about it?
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