So we have a twofold challenge to the social task of forging life in common: the deep, confessional diversity that shapes how we think about a life well lived and the norms for a good society; and the corrosive, antisocial forces--often fostered by the pseudo-community of the market and the state--that incline us toward Randian self-interest and self-preservation. Atlas shrugs while the ties that bind fray to breaking.