This week we are joined by Nils Gilman to discuss elite accountability and state capacity. Recommendations:Francis Fukuyama's <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374606718/liberalismanditsdiscontents">Liberalism and Its Discontents</a>Robert Caro's <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Power-Broker-Robert-Moses-Fall/dp/0394720245">Power Breaker: Robert Moses &amp; The Fall of New York</a><a href="https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7036775">The Technological Fix</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.sympoetic.net/Managing_Complexity/complexity_files/1973%20Rittel%20and%20Webber%20Wicked%20Problems.pdf">Wicked Problems</a>

Transgenderism with Michael Biggs

Charles Fain Lehman &amp; Aaron Sibarium are two friends and reporters who spend a lot of time wondering: are our institutions failing? This podcast is their effort to have these discussions in public, with some of the smartest people they know.Using their experience as DC-based journalists, this podcast discusses how our problems come down to how our institutions—our colleges, our businesses, our government, our media—function, or don’t.