Political scientists have long understood that loneliness is a precondition for authoritarianism, which depends on people being isolated and mistrusting one another.
Minnesota poet Erik Tschekunow seeks to amplify the voices of the incarcerated and the previously incarcerated.
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Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone chronicled the growing loneliness and isolation of wealthy societies. Twenty years later, the problem is far worse than he could have imagined.
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