That requires covenantal, not just contractual, politics.

Individuals with radically different values can agree on the importance of dependency upon others and the need for human association. There is no good life without free and democratically self-governing associations that respect the rule of law, such as trade unions, universities, faith communities, charities, sport clubs and the entire edifice of

Relations make up our “I,” as our society, our cultural, spiritual, and political life. It is for this reason, I think, that everything we have been able to accomplish over the centuries has been achieved in a network of exchanges, collaborating.