What We Are Reading Today: The Good-Enough Life

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Updated 13 September 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: The Good-Enough Life

Author: Avram Alpert 

We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous.

This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible — a good-enough life for all.

Avram Alpert shows how our obsession with greatness results in stress and anxiety, damage to our relationships, widespread political and economic inequality, and destruction of the natural world.

He describes how to move beyond greatness to create a society in which everyone flourishes. 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Overinvested’ by Nina Bandelj

Updated 17 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Overinvested’ by Nina Bandelj

Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In this eye-opening book, Nina Bandelj explains how we got to this point—how we turned children into financial and emotional investments and child-rearing into laborious work.

At the turn of the 20th century, children went from being economically useful, often working to support families, to being seen by their parents as vulnerable and emotionally priceless.