# What Are We Living Through?

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Podcast: [Executive Functions Chat](https://stenobird.com/podcast/executive-functions-chat-7348500)
Published: 2025-11-11T13:12:22+00:00
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## Resource

Jack talks with Columbia Law professor David Pozen about Pozen's recent Boston Review essay with Jedediah Britton-Purdy, “What Are We Living Through?” They discuss three competing ways of understanding the Trump administration—authoritarian rupture, continuity with long-running dysfunction, and a transition to a new constitutional regime. The conversation explores whether all three can be true, what kind of damage may be irreversible, and what rebuilding might look like after Trump. Mentioned: “ What Are We Living Through? ” by David Pozen & Jedediah Britton-Purdy ( Boston Review , Oct. 15, 2025) “ Hardball and/as Anti-Hardball ” by David Pozen ( Lawfare , Oct. 11, 2018) Get full access to Executive Functions at www.execfunctions.org/subscribe

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