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Hello, everybody. This is Glenn Laury. I am host of the Glenn Show. You've tuned in to the

Glenn Show. I'm with John McWhorter, who's my regular conversation partner here. He is a professor

at Columbia University and writes for the New York Times.

And I am an emeritus professor at Brown University and a fellow at the Hofer Institution.

We're joined by our guest today for the show.

He's Mark Dunkelman.

Mark's a fellow at Brown's Watson School for International and Public Affairs

and a former fellow at NYU's Merrin Institute of Urban Management.

He's worked in politics for a long time on the Democratic side of the aisle,

worked for members of both the Senate and the House of Representatives

and has served as a senior fellow at the Clinton Foundation.

We're here to discuss his new book, why nothing works.

Who killed progress and How to Get It Back?

Hell of a title, Mark.

And, I mean, it's apocalyptic. Nothing Works. I mean, kill progress. Those are fighting words. But in any case, Mark has a book.

He's a previous book. He's an author of two books. The previous book is called The Vanishing

Neighbor. I read a Preci's of it. It sounded really very interesting,

but we're here to talk about

why nothing works.

You want to talk about the Vanishing Neighbor,

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