The Coherence Crisis

What a Psychiatrist's Consulting Room Teaches Us About the Future of American Democracy

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”— Thomas Jefferson

There is a 40-year-old engineer somewhere in America right now who has stopped functioning. His wife brought him in. He was not sleeping, not working, not engaging with his children. He was verbalizing suicidal …