Across much of the West, a certain malaise seems to have set in. On a recent Uber ride in Zurich, Switzerland, my driver, a Romanian man likely in his fifties who has spent much of his life trucking across Europe, lamented the seeming loss of Judeo-Christian values and identity in Europe. The undergraduates I teach are similarly unsettled and anxious about the volatility in the world and their lives.
In a recent exchange with a friend, too, a simple question, “How are you?” left us both dumbfounded. Who knows anymore?
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