The Origin, Decline and Potential Future of “The American Dream”

What made people believe the "American Dream" when the mythos around it came about, and where is that sentiment left in 2023 and beyond? On today's show, with the "dream" of an ever-brighter economic future now stymied, David Leonhardt, senior writer for The New York Times who writes The Morning, The Times’s flagship daily newsletter and author of Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream (Random House, 2023), traces its history and offers a path to reclaiming it for future generations.