A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than ….

Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous….

None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick..

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement.

Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends..

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication..

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membershi….

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there..

School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census retu….

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort..

Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity..

Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good hig….

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did..

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate..

Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and ab….