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August 25, 2026

People Need a Sense of Meaning—but Shouldn’t Get It from Politics

What Chris Murphy gets wrong.

In his thirteen years in the Senate, Chris Murphy has been one of the most committed enemies of Israel, and one of the most consistent opponents of policies that would restrain Iran and its axis of terror. The Connecticut Democrat has now written a book about America’s domestic political arrangements, titled Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America. In her review, Jerusalem Demsas writes that that it is far less boring than most books composed by ambitious politicians:

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