Over the past few months, writers from Charles Murray to Timothy Noah have produced alarming work on the growing bifurcation of American society. Now the eminent Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam and his team are coming out with research that’s more horrifying.
I joined my Boys and Girls Club the summer after my fifth-grade year at Pine Street Elementary School. Back then, I was a troubled child and a class clown. Teachers couldn't understand how I always quickly finished my work yet was unable to sit still.
