Shattered social trust and the fragmentation of liberal society

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Western liberalism no longer appears culturally self-sustaining. It increasingly embodies a civilization’s consuming inherited social capital faster than it replenishes it. The central issue is whether modern liberal societies will possess enough civic glue: shared memory, institutional credibility, and cultural confidence -- to survive the centrifugal pressures now pulling at...