The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. In this episode, Joey Taylor and Sam Pressler speak with Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin about loneliness as a spiritual and material crisis, agency, world making, and Restoring the Common Good.

Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher in Cambridge, MA, serving on the faculties of Neurology and Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, where he co-directs the Human Network Initiative, and is a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita. He has a book on belonging forthcoming.

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Works Referenced in this podcast:

• Radical Hope by Jonathon Lear
• Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism boy Anne Case and Angus Deaton
• The Loneliest Crowd by Ian Marcus Corbin
• We Were Wrong About What Happened to America in 2020 by Eric Klinenberg
• Alienated America by Timothy Carney
• How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century by Hahrie Han
• George W Bush’s Ownership Society
• Why is it So Expensive to Build Stuff in America on Plain English Podcast with Derek Thompson
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
• The Left Needs a Spiritual Renaissance. So Does America. By Ian Marcus Corbin and Senator Chris Murphy
• REMARKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MARCH 18, 1968 by Robert F. Kennedy
• Read about the Saguaro Seminars in this book by Robert Putnam - Better Together: Restoring the American Community
• Read about Rawlsian Bracketing here - Neutered by Neutrality: The Abiding Influence of John Rawls, Part Two by Randall Smith
• “A House Called Tomorrow” by Alberto Ríos

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change.