We Are on the Verge of Transforming From an ‘I’ Society to a ‘We’ Society

In his new book, Robert Putnam offers lessons from the Progressive Era

Hope Reese
GEN
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5 min readOct 20, 2020

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It might seem that America today has reached all-time peaks in income inequality, racial strife, and political partisanship. But 100 years ago the state of affairs was strikingly similar, according to Harvard political…

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Hope Reese
GEN
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Writer (currently) in Budapest, bylines @NYTimes, @TheAtlantic, @Undarkmag, @VICE, @voxdotcom & more; follow on Twitter @hope_reese; hopereese.com