The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)

Tumult in job markets and turmoil across societies will occur against the backdrop of a far more personal and human crisis—a psychological loss of one’s purpose. For centuries, human beings have filled their days by working: trading their time and sweat for shelter and food. We’ve built deeply entrenched cultural values around this exchange, and ma

health precarity, interpersonal precarity, home and housing precarity, and other forms of uncertainty and instability. Precarity isn't a personal failing—although it's often perceived as such.

Some of the shock absorbers—from faith to family—that helped us cope with setbacks in the past have atrophied. It’s possible that a new basis of solidarity is slowly coming into view in which we are bound together by a new set of shared risks: the risk of loneliness and isolation; the risk of mental illness; the risk of being left behind. But these

The story of Preston brings to mind an idea that could play a big role in fostering an ‘economics of imagination’. A lot of ink has been spilled in recent years about Universal Basic Income. It’s an excellent idea in many ways, and would help create conditions for both personal and collective imagination to thrive, in particular with a reduction of