Research suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific and political authorities.

New ideologies are messy to describe and messier still to name. But in a few years, what we’ve grown accustomed to calling Generation Z may reveal itself to contain a subgroup: Generation C, COVID-affected and, for now, strikingly conservative.

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