To Heal, We Must First Acknowledge Plummeting Public Trust Is Reasonable
When people get contempt and condescension, they’re more inclined to put all their trust in leaders like Trump. When people have nobody to trust but a politician, that’s not good news.
Examining Institutional Failures At The FBI Through ‘A Time To Build’
Yuval Levin’s latest book, ‘A Time to Build,’ examines the ongoing failures of American institutions, and in particular, the Trump era has exposed an alarming lack of leadership and judgment at the FBI.
Democrats: It’s Trump’s Fault We’re Burning Down American Institutions
The left and the right agree that American institutions are under attack. They just disagree on what those institutions are and who’s doing the attacking.
Democrats Ramp Up Their War On America’s Institutions, Promising Riots If Trump Nominates A Justice
It took less than 24 hours for left-wingers to pledge burning down the country if Republicans don’t abdicate their duty to fill a Supreme Court vacancy.
If We Don’t Stop It, Marxism Will Annihilate The American Way Of Life
If we’re inclined to glide past the Marxist fingerprints all over America’s current turmoil, assuming its ideas will flare up for a while and then burn out, we’re not paying attention.
People Who Have Nothing To Live For Destroy Everything For The Rest Of Us
Despite our civilization’s wealth and technological prowess, many among us have been dispossessed of what matters most.
How Declining Institutional Trust Makes It Harder To Address A Pandemic
We’re facing a pandemic with 58 percent of Americans holding either ‘not very much’ trust or ‘none at all’ in the media, which is tasked with keeping us informed and keeping the government accountable.
Democrats’ History Of Intimidating SCOTUS Justices Carries Over Into Impeachment
Democrats have become the party of intimidation, scaring other branches into performing their will or threatening to burn down the entire institution.
‘A Time To Build’ Explores How To Fix America’s Foundering Institutions
Yuval Levin’s ‘A Time to Build’ offers a sobering and incisive explanation for why America no longer trusts its institutions, and what to do about it.
How Libertarianism Makes People Susceptible To Huge Government
In the end, the freedom to abandon family, faith, and community is the freedom to be insecure, insignificant, and alone before the Leviathan of government.
We Killed God, Family, And Community — And Now It’s Killing Us
We have discarded social institutions that have helped people understand their value and place in the world for thousands of years. And their decline is not just mirrored in the rise of mass shootings.
Jordan Peterson Is The Head Pastor Of First Church YouTube
He is brain porn for Christians disenchanted with the institutional church, when they should be working on their real-life churches instead.
How The Media Can Regain The Public Trust It Has Lost
In all their self-aggrandizement and pontificating, the media seems to have missed the core tenet of legitimacy as a public institution: trust.
Democrats Aren’t Losing Faith In Our Constitutional System. They Just Don’t Like It
Many Democrats see the Constitution as a way to achieve their partisan goals, not as a set of politically neutral and idealistic values.
Poll: Democrats Trust Amazon But Not Religion, And Republicans Trust The Military But Not The Media
For decades polls have documented a continual slide in Americans’ confidence in public institutions, but a new one also finds the confidence diverging among political leanings.
Liberals Blaming The Senate For Their Loss Of Political Power Have Lost Touch With Reality
Democrats’ loss of political power is not the result of a structural defect; it’s the result of flaws in the quality of their Senate candidates.
Democrats Have Become A Dangerous Threat To Our Institutions
According to liberals, every conservative-run institution is illegitimate. Working out how it’s illegitimate is the only question.
David Brooks Talks Faith, Community, And The American Establishment
David Brooks joins Ben Domenech on The Federalist Radio Hour to discuss the American cultural collapse of faith, trust, and community.
Podcast: Why Does Everybody Hate Each Other?
CBS News Politics Editor Will Rahn discusses political discourse, the evils of social media, and other channels of hate and distrust.
Firing Kevin Williamson Is Just the Beginning
When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.
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