Flourishing Friday

Does Our View of the Past Shape Our Vision of the Future?

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Clay Routledge
Feb 28, 2025
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National surveys, including ones from our team at Archbridge Institute's Human Flourishing Lab, reveal many Americans hold a bleak outlook regarding the country's future. I suspect one reason so many people are pessimistic about the future is they don't fully appreciate past progress. As a society, we often take historic…

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