Robert Putnam, policy professor at Harvard and author of the 1990 landmark Bowling Alone, isn’t just a social scientist who writes books. He’s an impresario who kicks off political-social events, ...
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In an address on youth well-being, political scientist Robert Putnam, whose prescient 2000 book Bowling Alone predicted a quarter-century-long decline in American community, laid out a sweeping ...