Below is a selection of authors and books/articles that I’ve been drawing on in the course of this project. More to come. Please recommend others in the comments!

Understanding the World As It Is

Mental Health & Loneliness

1. Anne Helen Petersen (2019). How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
2. Vivek Murthy (2017). Work and the Loneliness Epidemic

Economic Inequality

• Robert Gordon (2017). The Rise and Fall of American Growth
• Thomas Piketty (2017). Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Amy Goldstein (2017). Janesville: An American Story

Technological Change

• Matthew Hindman (2018). The Internet Trap
• Andrew McAfee & Erik Brynjolfsson (2014). The Second Machine Age

Politics

• Ben Sasse (2018). Them
• Barack Obama (2007). The Audacity of Hope
• John Kennedy (1961). Inaugural Address
• George W. Bush (2001). Speech on Airport Security.

Social Connectivity

• Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler (2009). Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks
• Yuval Harari (2011). Sapiens
• Robert Putnam (2000). Bowling Alone
• Robert Putnam (2015). Our Kids
• Robert Putnam & Shaylyn Romney Garrett (2020). The Upswing
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1835). Democracy in America

Evaluating the World As It Is

Liberalism

• Stephen Pinker (2018). Enlightenment Now
• Michael Sandel – Editor (2007) Justice: A Reader
• Milton Friedman (1970). The Social Responsibility of a Business is to Increase Profits
• Milton Friedman (1962). Capitalism and Freedom

Critiques of Liberalism

• Eva Kittay & Licia Carlson – Editors (2010). Cognitive Disability and its Challenges to Moral Philosophy
• Michael Sandel (2012). What Money Can’t Buy
• Michael Sandel (2020). The Tyranny of Merit
• Patrick Deneen (2018). Why Liberalism Failed

Communitarianism

• David Brooks (2019). The Second Mountain
• Michael Sandel – Editor (2018). Encountering China
• Elizabeth Anderson (1993). Value in Ethics and Economics
• Antonio Spadero (2013). A Big Open Heart to God: An Interview With Pope Francis

Virtue Ethics

• Amartya Sen (2009). The Idea of Justice

Imagining the World As It Could Be

Urban Planning

• Jane Jacobs (1961). Death and Life of the Great American City
• Bruce Katz & Jeremy Nowack (2017). The New Localism
• James and Deb Fallows (2018). Our Towns

Institution Building

• Hilary Cottam (2019). Radical Help
• Victor Pickard (2014). The Battle for America’s Media Democracy
• Daron Acemoglu, ‎James Robinson (2012). Why Nations Fail