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The Home We Build Together
Recreating Society

Publication date: 31 October 2007
The Home We Build Together

“Multiculturalism has run its course, and it is time to move on.” So begins Jonathan Sacks’ new book on the future of British society and the dangers facing liberal democracy.

Arguing that global communications have fragmented national cultures and that multiculturalism, intended to reduce social frictions, is today reinforcing them, Sacks argues for a new approach to national identity. We cannot stay with current policies that are producing a society of conflicting ghettoes and non-intersecting lives, turning religious bodies into pressure groups rather than society-building forces.

Britain, he argues, will have to construct a national narrative as a basis for identity, reinvigorate the concept of the common good, and identify shared interests among currently conflicting groups. It must restore a culture of civility, protect “neutral spaces” from politicisation, and find ways of moving beyond an adversarial culture in which the loudest voice wins. He argues for a responsibility- rather than rights-based model of citizenship that connects the ideas of giving and belonging.

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Books

The Home We Build Together
Recreating Society

Publication date: 31 October 2007

“Multiculturalism has run its course, and it is time to move on.” So begins Jonathan Sacks’ new book on the future of British society and the dangers facing liberal democracy.

Arguing that global communications have fragmented national cultures and that multiculturalism, intended to reduce social frictions, is today reinforcing them, Sacks argues for a new approach to national identity. We cannot stay with current policies that are producing a society of conflicting ghettoes and non-intersecting lives, turning religious bodies into pressure groups rather than society-building forces.

Britain, he argues, will have to construct a national narrative as a basis for identity, reinvigorate the concept of the common good, and identify shared interests among currently conflicting groups. It must restore a culture of civility, protect “neutral spaces” from politicisation, and find ways of moving beyond an adversarial culture in which the loudest voice wins. He argues for a responsibility- rather than rights-based model of citizenship that connects the ideas of giving and belonging.

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This book joins with its predecessors... to form an oevre of moral authority and compelling logic. For a corpus of writing substantially less ambitious than this some have received the Nobel Prize.
The Jerusalem Post
A deeply philosophical, yet extremely hard-hitting book...
The Jewish Telegraph
He [Sacks] argues like an expert dancer, leading his audience through a waltz of lilting reasonableness.
The Observer

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