Is Everything Falling Apart?
Jonathan Haidt thinks so. I’m not so sure.
«Still, looking around today, I don’t see quite as much bleakness as Haidt seems to see. And one reason, I think, is that I don’t see the causes of our current troubles as being quite as novel as he does. We’ve been here before, and humankind survived.»
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