A philosophical and fiduciary analysis expanding on Joel Suss’s Financial Times “Free Lunch” column (26 Oct 2025). This paper argues that America’s polarised economy reflects a fiduciary collapse of trust across political, corporate, and civic systems, proposing epistemic humility as a framework for renewal.

A landmark interdisciplinary study that redefines cognitive dissonance and trust as foundations of knowing. Not a psychology paper but a theory-of-knowledge manifesto in psychological form—bridging mind, ethics, and governance.