Responding to Hyper Empowered Individualism

Here’s my chat with Andrés Spokoiny, CEO of the Jewish Funders Network in New York, about his new book Tradition and Transition: Jewish Communities and the Hyper Empowered Individual.

Christians often complain about autonomous individualism. One recent much discussed example is Carl Trueman’s The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution.

Spokoiny’s review of hyper individualism’s impact on Jewish communities is an important contribution, relevant to Christians and all persons concerned about social cohesion. Importantly, Spokoiny warns against nostalgia or searching for answers in authoritarian alternatives to democracy.