New Essay at The Progressive: The Infrastructure Plan, Democracy, and Abraham Lincoln

I have a new essay in the Progressive about the Democratic infrastructure package. To make the case for its passage, I draw heavily on John F. Wasik’s excellent new book, Lincolnomics: How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy. Robust investments in public goods and services created the economic engine of the United States, and made a large middle class possible – not the so called “miracle of the free market.”

Read it at the Progressive.

Pennsylvania Railroad Station aka The Pennsylvanian aka Union Station aka  Penn Station