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Ours Was the Shining Future
This episode explores how the American promise of inevitable progress and upward mobility quietly unraveled, leaving a generation to navigate a future far different from the one they were told to expect.
“This episode explores how the American promise of inevitable progress and upward mobility quietly unraveled, leaving a generation to navigate a future far different from the one they were told to expect.”
— David Leonhardt, Ours Was the Shining Future
American Dream, economic mobility, societal change, future expectations
If you've ever felt like the rules for getting ahead changed mid-game, or wondered why the future your parents expected feels out of reach, this will clarify the unseen forces at play, and this will help you see what to do next.
David Leonhardt, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, brings decades of incisive economic and social analysis to illuminate the clear shifts that reshaped the American experience of progress and prosperity.