# Night Owls Episode 66 (with Marc Dunkelman)

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Podcast: [Night Owls](https://stenobird.com/podcast/night-owls-6745517)
Published: 2025-05-19T18:24:00+00:00
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## Resource

A conversation with Brown University’s Marc Dunkelman who has written an important book: Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and how to Bring it Back.” Dunkelman has written an alternative history of the Democratic Party, a 150 year struggle between top-down and bottom-up progressivism that has led to stagnation.

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