Robert Reich
Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused
The Roots of Trumpism
Part 1: The roots
Part 2: The myth of the "free market"
Part 3: The Democrats' disease
Part 4: Gingrich
Part 5: McCarthy
Part 6: Talk radio in 1994
Part 7: Wisconsin before the '94 midterms
Part 8: The riot that started the culture wars
Part 9: The Old Left, the New Left, and the Left Behind
Part 10: The man who sacrificed workers to shareholders
Wealth & Poverty
Announcing the last course!
Class 1: What has happened to income and wealth inequality over the last 40 years?
Class 2: The investor's view
Class 3: Globalization, technological change, and you
Class 4: Widening inequalities of place
Class 5: Why corporations have power, and workers don't
Class 6: The vicious cycle of wealth and political power
Class 7: Taxing, redistributing and predistributing
Class 8: Inequality and the marcoeconomic mess
Class 9: Systemic racism and inequality
Class 10: Who should get public assistance?
Class 11: The most expensive, least effective health care system
Class 12: How climate change worsens inequality
Class 13: Inequalities in education
Class 14: The future of inequality (and you?)
The Common Good
Introduction
1. Rudy Guiliani and Broken Windows
2. Donald Trump and Ayn Rand
3. Samuel Bankman-Fried and the Perversion of Civic Virtue
4. From Nixon to Trump: The Decline of the Common Good in American Politics
5. Jack Welch and the End of Stakeholder Capitalism
6. Why Have So Many Americans Succumbed to Trumpism?
7. Resurrecting the Common Good: A New (and Very Old) Conception of Leadership
8. Resurrecting the Common Good: Honor and Shame
9. A Civic Education for All
10. Truth as a Common Good
Summary: The Truth about the Common Good
Why American Capitalism is So Rotten
0. Why is American capitalism so rotten?
1. Beyond Trump
2. What really happened to the American dream?
3. The Myth of the Market
4. Freedom and Power
5. The Pernicious Myth of Meritocracy
6. Why the hell is Trump rising in the polls?
7. How America’s oligarchy has paved the road to fascism
8. How the oligarchy shrank America’s middle class
9. Resurrecting Countervailing Power
10. The Final Battle