Sunday, August 4, 2013

Read Robert Putnam's essay in the New York Times

Robert Putnam's essay "Crumbling American Dreams" is surely worth a read (see here).  Below is a quote from the concluding paragraph:

The crumbling of the American dream is a purple problem, obscured by solely red or solely blue lenses. Its economic and cultural roots are entangled, a mixture of government, private sector, community and personal failings. But the deepest root is our radically shriveled sense of “we.”

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