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Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Putnam has served as the chair of the Government Department, the director of the Center for International Affairs, and dean of the Kennedy School. Known to undergraduates as the professor of Junior Government Tutorial 90qa, "Community in America," Putnam...
Since those junior high glory days, Putnam hasn't bowled in a league. But, he says, "I get taken to go bowling surprisingly often by students. So I do get to go bowling more often than I used to. But I'm not in a league."
"The reason I use examples like bars and bowling is that it's not just do-gooding things like voting or going to church. I want to convey that this is not that we've become evil and that we're no longer doing good. The evidence is just quite...
The pins are pummeled for another round. And after gathering to watch the video figure do another dance, this time accented by a flashing red "\ ," the unfazed Putnam continues with assurances that he is not passing a moral judgment on solo bowlers.
"America at the end of the 19th century suffered from all of the same symptoms of a social capital deficit, that we do today. They had the same problem, and they fixed it."