My recipe for a just society
Please join me for my book “The Common Good,” which I’ll be publishing in its entirety here, starting next Friday.
Friends,
I’m publishing an updated version of my 2018 national bestseller The Common Good — here, for free — starting next Friday.
I wrote the book to answer a question that has piqued my curiosity for decades and that Trump’s presidency cast in sharp relief: Is there a common good? Or are we just self-seeking individuals who happen to live within the same borders?
The book is also intended to expand America’s moral imagination — about what we owe one another as members of the same society.
Now that Trump is running for president again — and has unleashed even fiercer anger, divisiveness, and bigotry — the book may be even more relevant today than it was then.
(It’s also one of the shorter books I’ve written, which lends itself to 10 relatively easy-to-read chapters each week.)
I’m also eager to have your thoughts and comments — an extra bonus for me for giving the book to you. So many of you have enriched this page with your insights that I’m excited to read what you have to say.
So, please join me on this page, starting next Friday, with Chapter 1 of The Common Good.
— Robert Reich
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As I said in an earlier post, Robert, you are a gift to humanity. Thank you for sharing this important work. We need more people like you who work at the architecture level of society to help the rest of us rebuild and strengthen our base of shared fundamental values and work through the dilemmas served up by a complex world.
Professor
Thank you for doing this, and more important for your work on behalf of part of my chosen family over your life time.
I am excited to join you and to read your book.
My excitement is mixed is mixed with jealousy, I wish I could write a book, much less a book as good as I am sure this will be. I suspect you would tell me to continue to try and I will.
I wake up in the middle of the night, turn on my computer and often is dismayed at what I read, see and hear. This morning, something joyful has popped up.
Thank you again.
Fred