LAST BEST HOPE

How, in a few decades, did the United States transform from a broadly prosperous middle-class country, with relatively healthy insti tutions and competent leaders, to a nation defined by discredited elites, hollowed-out institutions, and blatant inequalities-feared and pitied by our friends, mocked and sabotaged by our adversaries, first in the world in Covid cases and deaths, and led in recent years by an incompetent authoritarian bigot? Last Best Hope is a bracing account of our current crisis and of how a new era of civi c revita...[Read more]