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Opinion | The Rising Tide of Global Sadness
A sizeable majority of the world’s population (more than three in five) now believe the world is getting worse.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
According to one in-depth 2019 survey, 73 percent of Americans are satisfied about how things are going in their communities—though only 43 percent would say the same about their nation. The survey concludes, “In this time of bitter political divisions, Americans are remarkably upbeat about life close to home.” According to Gallup, similarly, Ameri
... See moreNeil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
The possibility of using measures of well-being as indicators to guide government policies has attracted considerable recent interest, both among academics and in several governments in Europe. It is now conceivable, as it was not even a few years ago, that an index of the amount of suffering in society will someday be included in national statisti
... See moreDaniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
after several conversations with happiness experts and psychologists, I’ve cobbled together a tentative theory. We’re seeing the international transmission of a novel Western theory of mental health. It’s the globalization of Western—and, just maybe, American —despair.