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This is on point. I'm Meghachachro Bardi. Our guest today says the United States has lost its can-do attitude.

Philip K Howard says Americans are in a crisis of human disempowerment.

And he says the source dates back to the 1960s,

and a series of legal frameworks put into place then

on a wave of cultural and political backlash.

Well, that wave has now crested over the life of every American, he says,

all the way from the most politically powerful people in the land

to teachers, workers, parents.

Bureaucracy is crushing everyone, Howard says.

Without individual freedom, the nation has lost its ability

to solve problems effectively and efficiently.

But Howard insists, within this diagnosis of the problem,

lies the solution to that problem.

And that's what he offers in his new book, Everyday Freedom,

designing the framework for a flourishing society. Philip K Howard, welcome

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