Our Age of Mistrust

Our trust in institutions — and each other — is rapidly fading

Last week Neil Young (right) and Joni Mitchell (left) pulled their music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s (center) anti-vax comments on his Spotify-exclusive podcast

When the Omicron variant began to spread rapidly across Europe and North America in December 2020, most Western countries were protected from the doomsday scenario some had predicted thanks to mass vaccine immunity. However, not everywhere was as fortunate. In both the UK and the US, cases surged to record highs in the wake…