Journalist George Packer’s 2013 bestseller “The Unwinding” painted a picture of an America with institutions in decline, a frayed social fabric and inequality on the rise. In his new piece in the Atlantic, Packer looks at what happens when a country with those pre-existing conditions meets a deadly pandemic. “Every morning in the endless month of March, Americans woke up to find themselves citizens of a failed state,” he writes. Packer joins us to talk about his piece, and what can be done to strengthen our civic life.
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