Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout explains to New York Times columnist Ezra Klein what she objects in “Abundance,” the new book written by Klein and the Atlantic writer Derek Thompson, on how Democrats have governed in the places where they have held power.
“Abundance” is an effort to focus more of American politics on a surprisingly neglected question: What do we need more of, and what is stopping us from getting it? It is that focus that some of my friends on the populist left object to. Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham law professor who’s a central figure on the anti-monopolist left, told me that her problem with “Abundance” wasn’t the policies but the central question: “We should be focusing Democratic politics and politics in general on the problem of concentrated power and the way in which concentrated power is making it impossible to do things.”
Read “The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to See” on The New York Times.