In The Atlantic, Kurt Andersen tries to unravel a mystery that has been dominating everything from our social media feeds to our dinner party debates. This is How America Lost Its Mind. “Little by little for centuries, then more and more and faster and faster during the past half century, we Americans have given ourselves over to all kinds of magical thinking, anything-goes relativism, and belief in fanciful explanation — small and large fantasies that console or thrill or terrify us. And most of us haven’t realized how far-reaching our strange new normal has become.” (Oh, I think at this point, we realize…)