See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While researching their forthcoming book about American religion, the ...

John DiIulio jr.’s excellent and quite laudatory review of Robert Putnam and David Campbell’s recent book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which appeared in the Nov. 22nd issue of ...

Question: How does America’s religious origins affect its public policy today? Robert Putnam: This is a big important question, with many possible answers. Historically, American public policy has ...

For those who follow American public intellectual life, Robert Putnam is best known for his 2000 book Bowling Alone, in which he argued that a key problem with contemporary American civic life was the ...