Michael Lerner On Hope in the Midst of a Polycrisis

Human Success Stories · Oct 1, 2026 · 1h 3m

Michael Lerner resigned from Yale before tenure to build a school for kids out of juvenile hall. Three years later, a shaft of sunlight over an abandoned radio station convinced him to found Commonweal instead. Forty years, 234 cancer retreats, and one MacArthur Fellowship later, Michael Lerner explains why he's a hopeful catastrophist — and makes the case for loving your fate, even inside the polycrisis.Human Success Stories is a One Wealth production, hosted by David Steele and Jonathan Steele, co-founders of One Wealth Advisors. One Wealth helps people simplify the financial complexity of…