Robert Reich

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

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?)

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

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