Trust in a Polarized Age with Dr. Kevin Vallier

In his lecture, Dr. Vallier discusses how Americans today don’t
trust each other and their institutions as much as they once did.
The collapse of social and political trust has arguably fueled our
increasingly ferocious ideological conflicts and hardened
partisanship. But is today’s decline in trust inevitable or avoidable?
Are we caught in a downward spiral that must end in institutional
decay or even civil war, or can we restore trust through our shared
social institutions? Dr. Vallier offers a powerful counternarrative
to the prevailing sense of hopelessness that dogs the American
political landscape, synthesizing political philosophy and empirical
trust research, restoring faith in our power to reduce polarization
and rebuild social and political trust.