The case for big government

Government and Change in America

The danger of an ideology

The evidence

Looking-back narratives from the right and left

The myth of laissez-faire

The many uses of government in the 1800s

Government as an agent of change in the 1900s

The economic benefits of government

Resisting a pragmatic government

How Much We Have Changed

The history of change

The new challenge to the standard of living

The broad threat to the American promise

It's not just inequality

When knowledge also changes

The purpose of government

Forsaking pragmatism for ideology

What To Do

Pessimism in America

The failure of conventional wisdom

America has the money

An agenda.