Arthur C. Brooks teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and from 2009 to 2019 served as president of the American Enterprise Institute. He is a columnist for the Atlantic, and his more than one-dozen books include Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt (2019).
The problem for democracy today is not capitalism; it is a decline in public honesty and civility. But there is an opportunity to revive our sense of national community, if we seize it.