Here’s another shortish book I read recently, not a memoir but a book at the intersection of politics, morality, and human nature, which is itself another theme of my reading the past two or three years. It’s by Robert Reich, about whom I’ve written before, e.g. here. I read this one on the plane during our last trip to Austin, in early June, and revisited it yesterday to write up these notes.
By “common good” Reich means the set of shared values of society, what we owe together as citizens of the same society, the norms we voluntarily abide by. Reich is quick to caution that this has nothing to do with communism or socialism, or about political parties. It’s something that seems to have been lost, he says, so in this book he explains what it is, what happened to erode it, and what might be done to restore it.
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