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Affairs at Harvard, and in American civic life, have been increasingly pervaded with apathy in the past 30 years. If our public leaders, in the academy and in government, refuse to engage in the difficult yet necessary work of honest self-assessment, then concepts like "diversity" will only exist as shallow mantras, and cynicism in public life can only continue to grow...
...Also, civic reputations have a long half-life. Chicago has had wondrous architecture for years, but it is still identified with Mob wars and the sort of political machine that urges its followers to vote early and often. If Dan Rostenkowski happened to be from Cleveland, would commentators on his fall have said that he couldn't shake the Cleveland way of doing things...
...officials when they simply disagree with a particular judicial decision (as Clinton finally said). The problem, of course, is timing. Had Dole and Clinton celebrated judicial independence when it mattered, they might not seem so phony in their constant preaching about morality and the value of a more moderate civic discourse...
Putnam argues that the country does not need to return to the 1950s era, but instead should create new civic institutions similar to those the country saw spring up at the end of the 19th century...
Putnam said he was preparing to begin a research project in which he will study the level of civic involvement in other countries, including France, Spain and Sweden