How To Fix the American Dream?

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How To Fix the American Dream?

Andrew Keen

Jan 04, 2021

The Economist’s 2020 award for most-improved country went to Malawi, with New Zealand, Taiwan and Bolivia as runners-up. The United States of America, not surprisingly, didn’t rank - although the country was credited last year with developing a COVID vaccine in record time as well with voting out Donald Trump.

So can America become the world’s most-improved country in 2021? How might it reinvent itself to become this year’s Malawi?

Today, Andrew invites Kerri Arsenault, Carl Hoffman, Dale Maharidge and Tom Zoellner to discuss how to fix America. Each is the author of a critically acclaimed new book about contemporary America: Arsenault’s Mill Town, Hoffman’s Liar’s Circus, Maharidge’s

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