An exchange with a young person who’s understandably dismayed

Friends,

Here’s what a young person wrote to me a few days ago:

Dear Professor Reich,

I heard you say on Colbert’s show that you believe a new Progressive Era will follow this dark second Gilded Age. I’m wish I shared your optimism.

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