It's time to rethink liberal answers to society's biggest challenges - we must abandon fearmongering and embrace visionary action.
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 FROM THE FINANCIAL TIMES and NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB
'Spectacular ... Inspires hope' New York Times
'Forceful, quick-moving ... important' Financial Times
'Ambitious' New Yorker
'Necessary' New Statesman
'Chilling ... Inspirational ... A book that matters' Sunday Times
'One of the most important political books of the past decade' The New European
The threat to liberal democracy isn't just autocrats - it's a lack of effective action by so-called progressives.
We have the means to build an equitable world without hunger, fuelled by clean energy. Instead, we have a politics driven by scarcity, lives defined by unaffordability and public institutions that no longer deliver on big ideas. It's time for change.
Bestselling authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have spent decades analysing the political, economic and cultural forces that have led us here. In this once-in-a-generation intervention, they unpick the barriers to progress and show how we can, and must, shift the political agenda to one that not only protects and preserves, but also builds. From healthcare to housing, infrastructure to innovation, they lay out a path to a future defined not by fear, but by abundance.
Praise for Ezra Klein: 'It's been a long time since I learned so much from one book - Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists
Superbly researched and written - The Washington Post
This book helped me understand modern politics better - Bill Gates
Praise for Derek Thompson: 'Enthralling ... This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off. - Adam Grant