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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

The discourse, absolutely abundant. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's

recent book has dominated U.S. politics and media, maybe particularly social media, for months.

On one level, this is surprising for an airport book in substantial part about upzoning.

But the book isn't just about that. It's a liberal vision for post-neoliberal hegemony,

for a liberalism that builds. Abundance explicitly introduces itself as a blueprint for a new

political order, wherein government removes myriad regulatory

blockages, and, in doing so, unleashes capitalism's productive forces to build the housing,

transportation, energy systems, and medicines that we need. But that's not all. Around this book, that's equal parts reasonable,

banal, and infuriating, a whole constellation of well-funded radical centrists are leveraging

the discursive plenty to explicitly attack the power of the economic populist left within the

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