Can America’s civic crisis be fixed? For most of US history, the tensions between an abstract commitment to justice and flourishing and a political reality that so often fell far short were held within a shared sense of unity and solidarity around the ideals of the American experiment. Why has this now unraveled, creating the civic conflict, disorientation and exhaustion we see today?

James Davison Hunter, author of the new book Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis, helped us understand this story. David Brooks, author and columnist, offered a response and thoughts on how to recover what we’ve lost.

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