Jacob Hacker is the Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale.
Jacob Hacker is the Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, where he focuses on healthcare reform, social welfare, and economic opportunity. His recent books, co-authored with Paul Pierson, are Winner-Take-All Politics and American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper.
AIR DATE 10/7/16
In an epic road trip, political comedian John Fugelsang retraces the nearly two-hundred-year-old journey of Alexis de Tocqueville. Along the way he explores whether the optimistic spirit of the American Dream that Tocqueville popularized is alive and well in the twenty-first century.
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