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Are We Still Bowling Alone – Part II: Lost In Culture
Abstract
In Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam decries the decline in associational life typified by the League of Women Voters, churches, and yes, bowling leagues—organized activities with like-minded folks that I have come to think of as compatibility communitarianism. In this paper, I’d like to widen the aperture of the 2024 Public Affairs Conference theme, Community and Individualism, to consider what has happened to our life together in the wider society. To put it more precisely, consider our life in public, which of necessity we