Book Club: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Mon, Jan 19
|Lakeland Retirement Center
Leader: Laurie Glowac
Time & Location
Jan 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Lakeland Retirement Center, 103 Elm Street, Woodruff, WI 54568, USA
About the Event
Arrive by 12:00pm, bring a lunch or snack you enjoy as it will not be provided.
Book Club discussions start at 1:00pm in the lower level conference room and generally end by 2:30pm.
ABOUT THE BOOK
From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and DerekThompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life. Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear's villains. Rather, one generation's solutions have become the next generation's problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the problems of the 1970s often prevent urban-density and green-energy projects that would help solve the problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few…