Against This System of Wrong

Institutions are floundering. Churches are suffering through a long and disjointed remaking. Families are exiting public schools at record rates. Universities, once critiqued from within by progressives hostile to signs of neo-liberal corporatization, now face sharp attack from without. Even amid an epidemic of loneliness, when no one really enjoys “bowling alone,” institutions seem ever more distrusted across the spectrum: the Right rails against waste, fraud, and abuse, while the Left fears complicity with injustice. It is clear to everyone that we face challenges requiring collective solutions, yet we struggle to build and tend the durable structures capable of meeting them.