Can we bring our highly fragmented society back together again? Why was American society so cohesive in the mid twentieth-century? And how has it become so polarized in the last 50 years?

Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett tackle these questions and look for ways that American society can return to a community-based culture as they join Wheatley Institution director Paul Edwards to discuss their book The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.

Putnam and Garrett discuss how economic, social, and political trends in the United States have gone from highly individualistic to communitarian and back over the past century. Even as they document deepening inequality, polarizing politics, and a culture pervaded by narcissism, Putnam and Garrett offer ideas for how to return to a stronger, more unified nation.

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