07/17/2026
Our reading list just grew, and for very good reason. This book could not be arriving at a better moment.
Rethinking Social Justice: Theory and Action in an Age of Transition, by our collaborators Michael Karlberg and Derik Smith, is the fruit of years of collaborative learning, research, and reflection.
The book asks two deceptively simple questions: What kind of justice should we be working toward? And how do we get there? Rather than stopping at a critique, the authors explore how we might build social conditions that enable every person and community to contribute meaningfully to our collective flourishing.
We are especially interested in the book’s exploration of “radical constructive agency”: the collective work of creating new social forms and institutions capable of replacing those that no longer serve humanity. It is an ambitious idea—but this feels like precisely the time for ambitious ideas. Thoughtful, hopeful, and forward-looking, this book offers a new approach to social transformation when one feels especially necessary.
Congratulations, Michael and Derik, on this labor of love. Our reading list may be getting longer, but we are very happy to make room for this one.
The full book is available through open-access publishing: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0536
