Can We Reverse America's Distemper?

Social trust, a baseline measure of social stability, has eroded.

Consider this description of America's discontent:

"...a Hamlet-like loss of self-confidence, with an apocalyptic sense of doom for the civilization. On the Right it embodies a conviction that the sensate culture is pushing the society down the Gaderene slope of drugs-and-fornication to destruction. On the Left there is the vague sense that America is im…