Eric Klinenberg is professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. His most recent book is Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (2018).

Caitlin Zaloom is associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London (2006) and Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost (2019) and cofounder and coeditor in chief of Public Books.

Sharon Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (2007) and The Drama of Celebrity (2019) and cofounder and coeditor in chief of Public Books.

Introduction: The Big Picture, by Eric Klinenberg
Part I. The Crisis: Where We Are
Resource Extraction, by Michelle Wilde Anderson
Confronting Manhood After Trump, by Lisa Wade
Predatory Real Estate, by Thomas J. Sugrue
The Misinformation Society, by Victor Pickard
Defending Open Cities, by Saskia Sassen
Criminalizing Immigrants, by Alina Das
Trump, Trade, and War, by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
Rule by Misrule, by Richard Sennett
School of Trump, by Pedro Noguera
Trump on Twitter: How a Medium Designed for Democracy Became an Authoritarian's Mouthpiece, by Fred Turner
Trump's Attack on Knowledge, by Craig Calhoun
Part II. The Collapse: How We Got Here
The Devastated House of Labor, by Margaret Levi
Unholy Alliances, by Shamus Khan
Coalthink, by Gretchen Bakke
Violence and Criminal Justice, by Patrick Sharkey
Women Voters, Left and Right, by Linda Gordon
The Office of the Presidency, by Robert Shrum
Religion and the Republic, by Philip Gorski
Evangelical Voters, by Tanya Marie Luhrmann
Gun Culture, by Harel Shapira
Black Women and the FBI, by Ashley Farmer
Confederate Revisionist History, by Douglas S. Massey
Trump's Charisma, by Steven Lukes
Unequal America, by Michelle Jackson and David B. Grusky
Part III. The Solutions: What We Can Do
Working-Class Environmentalism, by Daniel Aldana Cohen
Defending Society, by Wendy Brown
Protest, Violent and Nonviolent, by Judith Butler
Social Solidarity, by Michele Lamont
"The Parliament of Bodies", by Jack Halberstam
The Right Type of Citizenship, by Jefferson Cowie
Multiracial Cooperation, by William Julius Wilson
List of Contributors