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A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric - Andrew Leigh

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The History of the United States

In 1831 French aristocrat Alexis de Toqueville was given a grant by the French government to investigate prisons and penitentiaries in the United States. He recorded his observations in one of the greatest works of political philosophy, Democracy in America, published in 1835. With American society growing increasingly fractured, individualistic and unequal since the 1960s, many American intellectuals pined for a return to volunteerism. Robert Putnam has a protégé in Australia, Andrew Lee who is an articulate voice for the need to strengthen social capital down under. I caught up with Andrew on October 16th which we currently exist from the doldrums of our society. Building more social capital can

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