RT Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust)What matters to me is that it won't cost my kids and grandkids $250k+ in annual income to live in a high-trust community and that our leaders won't send them to fight in some stupid foreign war.I don't care about your conservative moral pieties if they can't create social trust and peace. Your principles have been destructive. ...

We cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago binds the country inevitably for the future. When I see a lot of left-wing people who theoretically support organized labor saying we need to flood the country with a limitless number of immigrants, they're unwilling to set any limitations on it. My response to that is you are destroying the very social trust on which American freedom and prosperity was built.So the honest answer to your question, what is the exact n ...

The decline in social trust is a Western phenomenon.And particularly an American phenomenon.Because the opposite is happening abroad.Look at Edelman's trust numbers for China and India.They've been ascending with technology. https://t.co/JnTI2ufDl8John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch):NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse?Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge.This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, ...