PositiveThe New York TimesIn his new book, Mistrust, Ethan Zuckerman takes us on a kaleidoscopic tour of everyone from Gandhi to Bitcoin enthusiasts, Brexit voters to Black Lives Matter activists — people and groups whom he calls \'insurrectionists\' because they are trying to overthrow or work around what has been a worldwide decline in social trust ... Zuckerman’s heroes have what he calls strong \'internal efficacy\' (they believe they can do things) but low \'external efficacy\' (they think political leaders don’t care about them). So they operate outside the system, pressuring retailers to change their approach to selling firearms, decentralizing institutions or shifting media coverage ... Recounting a conversation with the activist Eli Pariser, Zuckerman proclaims himself a \'resurrectionist\' who believes that “we need institutions that deserve our passionate support and defense, and if the institutions we rely on now do not clear that bar, we need to demand new ones that take their place.\' That seems correct and sensible, though it perhaps raises the question of what the point was in introducing the dichotomy in the first place.