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Spring 2017 |Volume 35, Issue 1
Trust: Reweaving Our Social Fabric
This issue of Comment is dedicated to analyzing the social dynamics of trust from different angles and constructively considering how to reweave the web. Generating a diagnosis is important, so woven throughout this issue are multidisciplinary accounts that give us insight into the sources of our cynicism—from fake news to ubiquitous surveillance to the broken realities of racism.
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- Editorial: Teach Us (How) to Trust
Suspicion and cynicism play right into the hands of authoritarian demagogues. Let's consider another way forward.
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- World View
An annotated reading of your world.
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- Headquarters: Faith in Canada 150
Updates from Cardus on the renewal of social architecture.
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- Liberal Democracy Has "Trust Issues"
Why civil society won't revive our trust in government.
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- Surveillance and Trust
When someone's always watching, someone's always suspicious.
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- Finding Trust in the Economy
Trust, like currency, can be debased. Knowing how to grow trust is the key to a thriving economy.
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- The Death of Expertise as a Decline of Trust
When we trust our feelings more than anything else, we stop trusting expert knowledge. And it could kill us.
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- Pluralism, Difference, and the Dynamics of Trust
What's the likelihood of living together if we can't even trust our neighbours?
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- Who Watches the Nudgers?
It's less about trusting government and more about governments being trustworthy.
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- Tocqueville and Twitter Feeds
Don't expect either social media or social science to save us; what we need is social theory.
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- The Commons: Explorations in Social Capital
The invisible power of trust.
Contributors to this Issue
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David Lyon David Lyon directs the Surveillance Studies Centre, is a Professor of Sociology, and holds a Queen's Research Chair at Queen's University. Bio -
James K.A. Smith James K.A. Smith was the editor-in-chief of Comment from 2013-2018, and teaches philosophy at Calvin College. He is the new editor-in-chief of Image Journal. Bio -
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John Inazu John Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion and Professor of Political Science at Washington University. Bio -
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Kevin den Dulk Dr. Kevin R. den Dulk (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison) is the Paul B. Henry Chair in Political Science at Calvin College. Bio -
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Peter Stockland Peter Stockland is a Cardus Senior Fellow and Publisher of the Catholic Register. Bio -
Sarah Hamersma Sarah Hamersma is an associate professor of Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Bio -
Tom Nichols Dr. Thomas M. Nichols is a Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at U.S. Naval War College and Harvard Extension School. Bio
