Trust appears to be falling, if not collapsing. Data from the 2014 General Social Survey, the National Opinion Research Center’s poll of US attitudes, found that only 30 percent of respondents agreed that people could generally be trusted, down from 46 percent in 1972. In his 2000 book Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam documents and laments the fall of civil engagement by US citizens and claims that a consequence of this will be the erosion of trust in our social fabric. Based on polling data, Putnam’s prediction seems to be coming true.