Properly Understood

The worsening crises across all dimensions of American society-extreme political division, social and economic inequality, the politicization of the educational system, the looming retirement debacle, and much else-make clear that, at some point, the country took a wrong turn and that we find ourselves in a wholly new social and political situation. Most proposals for how to fix things involve policy changes coming from one or the other of the two major political parties. They offer no more than