Why Nothing Works
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Why Nothing Works
| Full title | Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress — and How to Bring It Back |
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| Author | Marc J. Dunkelman |
| Published | 2025 |
| Pages | 416 |
| Recommended | 4 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Dunkelman’s argument that American progressivism disabled its own ability to build: a century of reforms aimed at checking concentrated power left no one with enough authority to finish anything. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle — June 2025 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at SFO — May 2026 (Books photo album)
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@PhilSustainable — on X (September 2025): “If you liked abundance you’ll love ‘why nothing works’.”
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@fredstaffordcs — on X (January 2026): “A book last year that deserves to be read more widely.”
Connections
- Regulation — the accumulated veto points the book blames.
- NIMBY — the local-veto mechanism at the center of the argument.
- Abundance (Klein and Thompson) — the adjacent 2025 book @PhilSustainable positioned this as the follow-on to.
- Abundance — the concept page.
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.