The new September Socionomist explains how negative social mood has blown the safety valve off self-control
Earlier this year, our April 2025 Socionomist warned:
As [optimism] continues to diminish, public frustration can ultimately dislodge the moral stop valve that prevents verbal threats from exploding into violence.
“For me this explanation is no longer hypothetical,” writes Nico Isaac in the just-published September Socionomist’s cover story. There Nico recounts how the Aug. 8 mass shooting at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention left a close friend terrorized.
Read the brand-new September Socionomist for one of our most intimate takes on the rising undercurrents of negative social mood, and why the power to prevent future outbreaks of violence is in our hands.
This issue is deeply powerful. Elsewhere, it features an in-depth report on how El Salvador’s President may be steering his country toward another Civil War, a jaw-dropping glimpse into the return of Gilded Age mansions, and more!
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