Yoni Appelbaum: How America Got Stuck
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.6 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
From the halls of Harvard to the pages of The Atlantic, Yoni Appelbaum's story defies conventional career paths. As Deputy Executive Editor and author of Stuck, Appelbaum illuminates how America's declining mobility is transforming our social fabric and political landscape. Drawing from his unique background as both historian and journalist, he examines the intersection of housing policy, community dynamics, and democratic resilience, offering fresh perspectives on how to reinvigorate the American dream.
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| 0:40.0 | It takes a large chunk of the population that makes it clear that it has a set of priorities |
| 0:45.2 | that they will hold politicians accountable for pursuing. |
| 0:49.3 | And politicians will respond to that incentive 10 times out of 10. |
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| 0:57.0 | to all Republican elected officeholders that his voters will respond to him. |
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| 1:03.5 | They will vote and they will vote against the people who cross them. |
| 1:06.6 | If you want to push back against that, you've got to show that you can be equally powerful at organizing from the bottom up. |
| 1:16.9 | My name is Guy Kawasaki. |
| 1:18.9 | This is the Remarkable People podcast. |
| 1:21.4 | And as you may gather, we're in the business of helping people be remarkable by finding other remarkable people to interview |
| 1:28.7 | and find out their story and find out what they're doing and how they got to where they are. |
| 1:34.4 | And we have a remarkable guest, of course, for you today. His name is Yoni Applebaum, and he is |
| 1:40.4 | the deputy executive editor of the Atlantic. And I want people to know, I love the Atlantic. It is a |
| 1:49.8 | bastion of freedom of expression and freedom of thought. And Yoni, I want you to know, I am a paid |
| 1:57.1 | subscriber. I'm not just freeloading on your intellectual effort. So yeah. Love to hear it. |
| 2:03.6 | Now, Yoni has also taught at Harvard Babson. Babson, that enlightened educational institution, |
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