Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us arguing that congressional action is

arguing that congressional action is not limited by the legislative branch's textually enumerated powers

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Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us arguing that congressional action isMacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind Body Problem, returns with a revelatory book about the primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one of our most persistent and universal motivations: the longing to matter. Drawing on biology, psychology, and philosophy, Goldstein argues that this need to matter and the various "mattering projects" it