Trust Me (Ep. 266 Rebroadcast) December 30, 2020 @ 11:00pm Listen now: Societies where people trust one another are healthier and wealthier. In the U.S. (and the U.K. and elsewhere), social trust has been falling for decades — in part because our populations are more diverse. What can we do to fix it? Listen and subscribe to our podcast at * * * First of all, Happy New Year! I think we can all agree that 2020 is the kind of year that belongs in the rear-view mirror. I’d like to take a minute to thank some people. Let’s start with you, our listeners: you are, objectively speaking, the best. You are loyal; you are receptive to new ideas and formats; you are enthusiastic and clever, even kind. So: thank you. I’d also like to thank the people who every week help create this show. There’s our core staff — Alison Craiglow, Greg Rippin, Zack Lapinski, Daphne Chen, Mary Diduch, Matt Hickey, and Emma Tyrrell; and the latest addition, Mark McClusky. They’ve all done great work this year, especially when a certain pandemic made it much harder to do great work. We also get a lot of help from James Foster, who stays up late on weekends doing our rough mixes; and Dan Dzula, who remixes our podcasts for public radio. Most of the music you hear on our show was composed by Luis Guerra. Every week, when I listen to the rough mix of an episode, without music, it sounds naked and a little bit sad; once Luis’s music is added: now we have something.