Robert D. Putnam is the author of Bowling Alone and ... repudiate fatalism and embrace their role as agents of change. His book reads like a voice from the past exhorting today's youth to master ...

Ever since his famous article and book, Bowling Alone, politicians on both sides of the aisle have tapped Harvard professor Robert Putnam as an intellectual influence on questions of declining ...

In Our Kids, Robert Putnam revives the lost art of bearing witness ... But it’s like, yeah, that’s how I want it.” In the book’s final chapter, Putnam imparts a lesson that he probably didn’t intend.

Political scientist Robert D. Putnam argued the election of U.S. President ... became famous for his 2000 book “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,” where he argued ...

America needs big ideas to heal our divides. Here are three. American democratic institutions are under attack, and Americans' trust in one another and in key institutions -- the media, government ...