Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at Yale, lays out six building blocks of distributive politics as part of his DeVane Lecture series course Power and Politics in Today's World. His organizing claim is that policy without politics is empty, and politics without policy is blind, and the lecture works through what that means for how societies decide who gets what. Delivered at Yale in fall 2019 to students and the public, the talk sits within a course tracing the arc from the post-Cold War optimism of the early 1990s to today's politics of fear and resentment, material that also forms the basis of Shapiro's book After the Fall. Expect a standard classroom lecture format, sustained argument over 72 minutes, with Shapiro building his framework piece by piece rather than surveying current events.