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The abundance agenda claims to offer a new path, one centered on housing, energy, and expanded state capacity. But are advocates of abundance offering a genuine political shift? Or are they just repackaging neoliberalism for the Trump era?

At the Abundance 2025 Conference, Oren debated Matt Yglesias, editor of Slow Boring, in a session moderated by Marshall Kosloff, host of The Realignment. During the debate, Yglesias framed abundance as a renewal of liberalism, centered on rebuilding capacity in areas long neglected by former generations of liberals. Oren pushed back, arguing that adding a new gloss on a political agenda that can be reduced to mere consumption is no different than a return to the stale establishment consensus that Americans have rejected since 2016.

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