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books and culture Recapturing the American “We” Robert Putnam’s latest book is a statistical tour de force but fails to acknowledge the implications of its analysis. The Social Order Social scientist Robert Putnam has a well-deserved reputation for arriving at original conclusions by asking original questions. In The Upswing, he and coauthor Shaylyn Romney Garrett have given us another compelling argument about American social life. A statistical tour de force, The Upswing asks an important question: Do Americans today care and focus more on themselves as individuals a collection of “I’s” or do they see themselves and their fellow countrymen as a “We”? The answer, unequivocal and well-supported, is that we have become more individualistic, and that this trend overlaps with various social ills: rising inequality, low social trust, and declining marriage rates. Tracking these and other trends, Putnam and Garrett identify a statistical (and grap

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