What's Next for the Abundance Movement: A Conversation with Jerusalem Demsas and Matt Yglesias

An emerging movement known as “the Abundance Agenda” or “the State Capacity Movement” is drawing attention to how lackluster government performance underwrites a host of problems in the United States, ranging from crumbling infrastructure to inadequate housing to rampant tax evasion.

On Friday, January 23, Jerusalem Demsas, founder and editor of The Argument, and Matthew Yglesias, author of SlowBoring, will join us at Yale University to talk about the origins of the abundance movement and how its ideas are shaping public discourse and policy across the country.

Demsas and Yglesias will be joined in conversation by Nicholas Bagley, the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, and Zachary Liscow, Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

The panel is part of the Law of Abundance conference taking place at Yale Law School on January 23 and 24.  While attendance at the conference is by invitation-only, Friday's panel with Demsas and Yglesias is open to the broader Yale community.

Registration for this event is now closed.

Date and Time

Friday, January 23, 2026
2:25 p.m.

Location

Sterling Law Building
Room 127

Check-in

To attend, you must be pre-registered and have a Yale ID. Please arrive closer to 2:00 p.m. to ensure we have time to complete check-in before the panel begins.

Sponsors

This panel is sponsored by the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University and the Niskanen Center.