Why we have no choice but to fix our broken government

We have an ongoing crisis of faith in this country. It’s a crisis of faith in our institutions.

In poll after poll most Americans, often a vast majority of them, say they no longer trust government, corporations, organized religion, the news media, the sciences (including medicine), or just about any other institution that only a generation or two ago commanded the near total respect of We the People.

It’s a good time to be an “anti,” whether an anti-corporate crusader or anti-government libe...