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Louise Story and Ebony Reed on the Black-White Wealth Gap in America

Jul 5, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Richard Aldous

The typical Black American family has fifteen cents of wealth for every comparable dollar that a White American family holds. Exploring the historical expansion of the wealth gap, journalists Louise Story and Ebony Reed join Richard Aldous to reveal how their investigation into the U.S. financial system uncovered scores of setbacks that continue to perpetuate that gap.
To Make a People in the Eyes of the World

Jul 2, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Rebecca Burgess

Not so long, but long enough ago that the likelihood seems foreign for us today, American statesmen and civic leaders delivered eloquent and stirring speeches, the best of which they delivered not on aircraft carriers or in the halls of Congress but in local park gazebos and bandstands, and on Independence Day.
It's the Internet, Dummy!

Jul 1, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama

I’ve been reading a terrific new book by my former Stanford colleague Renée DiResta called Invisible Rulers. Renée was one of the founding members of the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), and for many years has been researching online disinformation. SIO began an Election Integrity Project with some other academic researchers in advance of the 2020 election, to look for sources of disinformation regarding the contest.
Springsteen's U.S.A.

Jul 1, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Matt Hanson

There was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden (Hachette Books, 272 pages, $32.00)Is there an American song as iconic and yet as easily misinterpreted as Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.”? The title alone sure sounds patriotic at first glance, especially when those words are sung in the raw, charismatic way that Springsteen renders it. There’s precious little distance between singer and listener.
Peter S. Goodman on How We Ran Out of Everything

Jun 28, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Richard Aldous

You've successfully subscribed to American Purpose Great! Next, complete checkout for full access to American Purpose Welcome back! You've successfully signed in. Success! Your account is fully activated, you now have access to all content. The global pandemic unmasked not just the many vulnerabilities in the world’s supply chain, but also its hidden innerworkings.
The Metamorphoses of Franz Kafka

Jun 28, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |John Rodden

When Franz Kafka (1883-1924) died in a sanitarium near Vienna a century ago, he was largely unknown. Diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1917, he agonized in page after page of diary entries about the literary paralysis that had overtaken his late thirties.
Nuclear Math

Jun 25, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Henry Sokolski

Three years after The Washington Post first released photos of China’s construction of more than 300 nuclear missile silos and the Pentagon forecasted China would have at least 1,000 nuclear weapons by 2030, our government is still pondering what it should do. Meanwhile, Russia has been developing entirely new nuclear weapons systems—hypersonic nuclear-armed missiles, nuclear anti-satellite weapons, and long-range nuclear torpedoes.
Why American Purpose Must Thrive

Jun 21, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama

We need your support. Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Gedmin has been tapped for interim roles: as president/CEO of RFE/RL the second half of last year and now as CEO of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks through the end of this calendar year. We need funds for the next six months to help us over the hump. Why us? In these polarized times, so much political energy—and money—continues to flow to highly partisan and sectarian causes, which divide rather than strengthen our liberal-democratic communities.
Eurasian Erosion

Jun 21, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala |Nikola Mikovic

As the Ukraine war drags on and Russia continues its aggressive behavior, not all of the former Soviet republics are falling under Russia’s contemporary spell. Although some countries are still attempting to balance between Moscow and other global actors operating in the post-Soviet space, several nations from Russia’s “near abroad” have already started turning their back on the Kremlin. Russia is struggling to preserve former Soviet republics in its geopolitical orbit.
Michel Paradis on Eisenhower’s Enduring Legacy

Jun 21, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala |Richard Aldous

You've successfully subscribed to American Purpose Great! Next, complete checkout for full access to American Purpose Welcome back! You've successfully signed in. Success! Your account is fully activated, you now have access to all content. How did Dwight D. Eisenhower, a man of simple Kansas-bred beginnings, inspire implicit trust by his historical peers, from FDR and Churchill, to Stalin and DeGaulle?