# Trust in a Polarized Age

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/trust-in-a-polarized-age>

**By** Kevin Vallier, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell

**Published:** February 5, 2021

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Kevin Vallier comes back on the show to discuss the decline of trust in society.

## Shownotes:

Americans today don't trust each other and their institutions as much as they once did. The collapse of social and political trust has arguably fueled our increasingly ferocious ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. Kevin Vallier explains how all is not hopeless and restores faith in our power to reduce polarization and rebuild social and political trust.

What is social trust? Do we still have trust in democracy? How do you develop your sense of trust? What's a democratic norm?

## Further Reading:

[Trust in a Polarized Age](https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Polarized-Age-Kevin-Vallier/dp/0190887222), written by Kevin Vallier