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Very, very pleased this afternoon to be joined by Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin, who along with Connecticut

Senator Chris Murphy wrote a rather remarkable essay in The Daily Beast.

And I'm privileged this afternoon to be able to spend some time with Ian and talk

about it, and I'm just going to begin by reading the opening paragraphs of it.

The title is, the left needs a spiritual renaissance, so does America.

As neoliberalism falters, it's time to reclaim the legacy of

Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Caesar Chavez, Robert Kennedy, and other leaders. Throw a rock down a busy

street and chances are you won't hit a single American who feels good about the state of

American political dialogue. Those of us on the left can choose to take comfort in a sense of relative

innocence as the demagoguery and divisiveness on the right rise to a fever pitch. But scratch the surface and you will find that nearly

everyone of whatever party feels an emptiness, a soullessness to our shared political life.

As we brace ourselves for an election season that threatens to be even more fractious,

bombastic and incoherent than our last one, the left cannot and should not simply count on the continued meltdown of the right.

The deep truth is that American life needs a radical reframe, one that will require more than smart policy proposals,

vague promises of growth,

or even thundering denunciations of our opponents.

If we're going to pull out of this national nosedive,

left politics needs a spiritual renaissance. Pretty remarkable paragraphs coming from a Harvard

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