A September 2020 study by Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights shows that eight in ten Americans believe that “without our freedoms America is nothing.”1 Of those studied, 93 percent say the right to privacy is important, and 92 percent agree that the right to a quality education matters and that racial equality matters. Seven in ten Americans believe they have more in common with one another than not.2 So what’s the problem? What’s fueling the tension and division? In a word: fear.
