Senator Chris Murphy with Marcus Harrison Green: A Politics of the Common Good
Are you concerned about the current state of America? You are not alone. Many people are worried about the U.S. in a political sense, but Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut sees our crisis as more than just a political one. Americans have lost the sense of daily purpose and connection that are vital to happiness, becoming anxious, angry, and adrift, and the rich and well-connected have nearly uncontested influence in our system. In recent years, Senator Murphy has challenged the Trump administration. But he also sees President Trump’s handling of democracy as a symptom of a deeper crisis: the abandonment of the common good as our country’s organizing principle.
In his new book, Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America, Senator Murphy draws on history and political philosophy to expose how six different cults have paved the way to our current troubles: a cult of profit that punishes workers, a cult of globalism that weakens communities, a cult of technology that turns us against one another, a cult of consumption that undermines citizenship, a cult of credentialism that devalues those without degrees, and a cult of corruption that threatens democracy.
Refusing despair, Senator Murphy offers a new politics of the common good that is deeply rooted in our past, a radical challenge to the status quo, and has the potential to draw support across the ideological spectrum, with a majority of Americans favoring policies that curb corporate power, control predatory technology, enhance face-to-face connection, grant workers greater control of their lives, and remove big money from our politics. The common good, Murphy shows, is no object of nostalgia; it is a vital principle to be claimed today.
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