Podcast Exclusive The way back: Restoring the Promise of America

Published: April 5, 2016, 8 a.m.

b'Join Dr. Carlos as he chats with\\xa0F.H. Buckley.\\xa0He is a Foundation Professor at George Mason School of Law and lives in Alexandria, VA with his wife, Esther.

The promise of America is that, with ambition and hard work, anyone can rise to the top. But now the promise has been broken, and we\\u2019ve become an aristocracy where rich parents raise rich kids and poor parents raise poor kids.

We\\u2019ve been told that the changes are structural, that there\\u2019s nothing we can do about this. But that doesn\\u2019t explain why other First World countries are beating us hands down on the issue of mobility.'