BRUCE E. SEELY

Inadequate infrastructure has social as well as economic consequences. Lack of full access to vital networks—whether roads or broadband or running water—serves to reinforce existing patterns of economic growth and stagnation. It threatens to create new classes of haves and have-nots.

There has been a subtler but very far-reaching change: the decline of respect for expertise. Americans once accepted with little question the views of experts… The experts tended to speak with one voice, and they enjoyed a reputation as neutral specialists and servants of the general welfare.

There has been a subtler but very far-reaching change: the decline of respect for expertise. Americans once accepted with little question the views of experts… The experts tended to speak with one voice, and they enjoyed a reputation as neutral specialists and servants of the general welfare.

Inadequate infrastructure has social as well as economic consequences. Lack of full access to vital networks—whether roads or broadband or running water—serves to reinforce existing patterns of economic growth and stagnation. It threatens to create new classes of haves and have-nots.