The Beacon Project
Daniel YudkinBuilding a new vision for America's Exhausted Majority
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Major Update from the Beacon Project
Two years I left academia with the daft ambition of starting a new type of social science lab. Its aim: leverage insights from the latest psychology research to ancient Greek wisdom (and everything in between) to identify a new "civic visio...
Chapter 2: A Theory of Gifts
The Beacon Project is a multi-year initiative at More in Common seeking to advance a new civic vision for America’s Exhausted Majority. In October 2025, we published an essay introducing a prototype for that vision, called “potentialism.” T...
The Solution to the Liberal Conundrum is Hiding in Plain Sight
Sparks are flying in my nerdy little corner of the internet right now. Public intellectuals are debating the merits of liberalism.1
On one side of the debate are the “post-liberals.” This includes writers such as the Notre Dame political s...
"Seeing each other's dreams as part of our own": A conversation with author and filmmaker Pete Davis
For most of my life, the word “community” evoked images of boring town hall meetings and community centers with faded carpets and janky foosball tables. In the last few years, however, as I dug deeper into ideas for how to escape our curren...
What it's like to answer questions from highly opinionated Americans with too much time on their hands on live national TV
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This was a fun one. I was invited to give a 30-minute interview on C-SPAN over the weekend to talk about the Beacon Project and our work on civic responsibility.
Things started out pretty tame but the questions went farther and f...
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