Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut argues that the United States is gripped by a crisis that is not merely political but spiritual: over the past half century, he contends, the relentless pursuit of profit has eroded virtue and character, and too many Americans have come to believe that happiness comes from being good consumers rather than good citizens. The result, Murphy writes, is a country of people who feel anxious, angry, and adrift—having lost the sense of daily purpose and connection that human flourishing requires—and it is in this vacuum that Donald Trump found his opening. Drawing on history and political philosophy, Murphy diagnoses what he calls six "cults" that have taken hold of American life: a cult of profit that punishes workers, a cult of globalism that weakens communities, a cult of technology that turns people against one another and harms the young, a cult of consumption that corrodes citizenship, a cult of credentialism that devalues those without degrees, and a cult of corruption that threatens democracy itself. Rather than counseling despair, he offers what he frames as a new politics of the common good—one rooted in older American traditions yet radical in its challenge to the status quo. Murphy argues that such a politics could command support across the usual partisan lines, since majorities of Americans, including many Trump voters, favor curbing corporate power, regulating predatory technology, strengthening face-to-face community, empowering workers, and removing big money from politics. Part political philosophy and part manifesto, the book makes the case that the common good is not an object of nostalgia but a principle ready to be reclaimed.