Click on link below to listen. http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2007/08/20070809_b_main.asp Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam is a self-described full-on liberal who worries a lot about community in America. He made his name in the 1990s with his finding that hordes of Americans were, in his famous phrase, "bowling alone" -- living without the traditional community ties of bowling leagues and Moose clubs that bound people together. Then he set out on a huge project to find out why. The answer looks like a liberal's nightmare: diversity. Diverse communities, Putnam found, show dysfunction. At least for a while. This hour On Point: Robert Putnam, Pat Buchanan and Lani Guinier on diversity and community in America. Robert Putnam, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and author of "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community." · Lani Guinier, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and author of the forthcoming "Meritocracy, Inc: How Wealth Became Merit, Class Became Race and Higher Education Became a Gift from the Poor to the Rich." · Pat Buchanan, Founder and Editor of The American Conservative magazine and author of "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America ------------------- Problems/Questions? Send it to Listserv owner: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe, send the following message in the text section -- NOT the subject header -- to [log in to unmask] SIGNOFF SDOH DO NOT SEND IT BY HITTING THE REPLY BUTTON. THIS SENDS THE MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE LISTSERV AND STILL DOES NOT REMOVE YOU. To subscribe to the SDOH list, send the following message to [log in to unmask] in the text section, NOT in the subject header. SUBSCRIBE SDOH yourfirstname yourlastname To post a message to all 1200+ subscribers, send it to [log in to unmask] Include in the Subject, its content, and location and date, if relevant. For a list of SDOH members, send a request to [log in to unmask] To receive messages only once a day, send the following message to [log in to unmask] SET SDOH DIGEST To view the SDOH archives, go to: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/sdoh.html