Senator Chris Murphy

Sen. Murphy views the Trump administration’s assaults on democracy as a symptom of a deeper crisis: the abandonment of the common good as our country’s organizing principle. In Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America, he 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.

Sen. Murphy will be in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart, co-host of the morning edition of “The Weekend” on MS NOW and the New York Times bestselling author of Yet Here I Am: Lessons from A Black Man’s Search for Home.

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