I’m delighted and excited that my new book Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times is being published in the United States by Basic Books on September 1st. You can learn a little more about why I feel this is a crucial issue of our time by watching the video below.
I’d love for you to join me at the official US launch event on September 2nd when I will be having a virtual conversation with New York Times columnist David Brooks about the book. Reserve your spot and a copy of the book by clicking on the button below.
With blessings and best wishes,
About Morality:
A distinguished religious leader’s stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values
With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds.
In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today’s crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing us how to live. Sacks leads readers from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the present day to show that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that we must all must play our part in rebuilding a common moral foundation.
A major work of moral philosophy, Morality is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all find our place and face the future without fear.
Advanced Praise:
“Jonathan Sacks has produced a work of extraordinary depth, beauty, urgency, and erudition. If the prophets of the Hebrew Bible came back to guide liberal democracies and anxious citizens through this difficult time, but first they studied modern history and social science, this is the book they would write for us.”—Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind and coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind
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