- “A Secular Age” - Charles Taylor

- “America Is Having a Moral Convulsion” - David Brooks -

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing-levels-trust-are-devastating-america/616581/

- “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life” - Robert N. Bellah

Summary:

In 2020, David Brooks wrote a column in the Atlantic titled “America Is Having a Moral Convulsion” on how levels of

trust in America are in “precipitous decline”. Mike explain the times by helping us locate ourselves in history.