Nonfiction
Who Stole My Future?
How the American Promise Was Made, Sold, and Broken
Published · 2026
The miracles were delivered. The promise was not.
We were promised moon bases and flying cars. Abundant energy, shorter workweeks, affordable homes, a better life for our children. We got the supercomputers in our pockets. We did not get the house, the doctor, the degree, or the time. We received almost everything we were promised. So why doesn’t it feel like we did?
The usual suspects — technology, globalization, politicians, corporations, the market — don’t explain it. This book argues something stranger, and harder to shake. The future didn’t fail to arrive. It arrived wearing the wrong face.
Who Stole My Future? is a mystery, and the missing thing is the world we were promised. The trail runs through sixty years of American life: not progress denied, but progress quietly turned to other ends.
This is not a book about nostalgia. It’s a book about possibility. Because a future that was built once can be built again.