Reinventing the American Dream

The American Dream sounds like apple pie and motherhood. Everyone is for it.

But when everyone endorses an ideal, whether it's the American Dream, equal opportunity, or justice, you can be pretty sure that they disagree about what the ideal means, and that the appearance of agreement is being achieved by talking past one another.

There are at least two competing versions of the American Dream, and they are not only different but mutually incompatible. Perhaps even more alarming

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