Rachel Cohen Booth — You're Not Powerless: The Crisis of Agency and How We Reclaim It Together — at Conn Ave

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A bold and timely blueprint to reclaim our personal and collective agency, a critical counter narrative to the prevailing belief that we are living in age of helplessness, from a Vox senior policy reporter. You're Not Powerless is an urgent rethinking of one of the deepest problems in American life: the belief that we are incapable of fixing the biggest challenges facing society. Drawing on a decade of reporting across politics, social policy, mental health, and cultural change, Vox reporter Rachel Cohen Booth details how a perfect storm of structural inequality, pessimistic media, institutional distrust, and well intentioned but demoralizing narratives has convinced people today that their actions no longer matter. Booth argues that this psychic collapse of agency is…

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