We’ve been trained to point at three branches of government and ask, “Why won’t they fix it?” I’m flipping that question around. If we want a healthier democracy, we have to face the uncomfortable truth that the biggest failure might be us: our attention, our participation, and our willingness to act with self-integrity instead of outsourcing responsibility to institutions. I share why I wrote my book, The Fourth Branch, and what I think we were never taught in civics class. The “fourth bran...