Trust in all public institutions, ranging from the government to the Supreme Court to the media and the military, is near historic lows. Four in 5 Americans confess to being worried about the economy and believe that it is getting worse. Fully two-thirds of respondents tell pollsters that the country is "on the wrong track." The upcoming 2024 presidential election seems to depress almost everyone.
In looking at the positive, there must always be the caveat that much has gone wrong. But it says something about our current cultural mood that few seem to feel the need to include the inverse caveat: that there's much good, if less sensational, news behind the dire headlines of campus unrest, political polarization and global conflict.
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