What Is Wrong With Us? Our problems are rarely the real problem. Our refusal to finish solving them might be

There is something quietly revealing about a problem that outlives several governments, countless committees and enough conferences to fill a respectable hotel ballroom. At first the problem causes outrage. A task force follows. A report is produced, recommendations are announced, cameras flash, and expectations rise. Time passes, and the report grows steadily more familiar with the shelf on which it rests. Eventually another crisis arrives and, with astonishing innocence, society asks how this…