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A new book on the mess we’re in provides an accurate diagnosis of our situation. But its prescriptions for a way out leave much to be desired.

The social scientist has made a career from predicting global instability. But in the new book End Times, his analysis produces nothing but banalities.

The state and fate of friendship in contemporary American society. In strictly material terms, Americans are better off than ever. The average adult has a higher income, more wealth, a bigger house or apartment and a better car than those who came before them. Yet, as Alex Armlovich, a journalist and policy analyst has observed, in the ways that count most, something has gone terribly wrong.

Over the past two years, the United States has lost more than two years of life expectancy, wiping out 26 years of progress. French daily Les Echos investigates the myriad of causes, which are mostly resulting in the premature deaths of young people.

We first wrote about what came to be called about deaths of despair when the landmark work by Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel prize winner in economics, and his wife Anne Case, on the dramatic rise in the death rate of middle-aged, less educated...