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I'm Christopher Leiden. This is OpenSource.

We've got COVID, climate, chaos in the rush out of Afghanistan.

Plus, cruelties of capitalism and a cultural rift in the heart of the country.

Who are we by now?

Who remembers a certain cool competence in the self-image of Americans?

And who can imagine recovering it?

Mariana Matsukato wants to tell you she can.

Born in Italy, raised in the US, holding forth now from University College London.

She's got an audience on both sides of the Atlantic.

Her message is, we'll change our luck only by transforming ourselves

with ideas and dreams at the grand scale of the emergencies and energy,

jobs, health and justice.

When she speaks of a moonshot mission to change capitalism,

she's evoking John F. Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon in the 1960s.

On the 2021 agenda, I'm asking Mariana Matsukato

to grade our wins and losses in the struggle with COVID so far

and the prospects in our struggle to save the climate.

Both COVID-19 and climate change have really revealed

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