What's wrong with Bowling Alone?
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Is there really a loneliness crisis?
Jerusalem Demsas and Matt Yglesias read Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone, the 2000 classic that diagnosed America’s collapse in community life. They argue about how bad the loneliness problem really is today, and whether Putnam’s diagnosis about the loss of associational life actually holds up. They also get into Putnam’…