Social cohesion

QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within

by Ben Sasse

The Republican Senator from Nebraska, who holds a doctorate in American history, warns that his party cannot continue to "preach the Constitution while winking at QAnon," and suggests ways to repair the frayed social fabric in which conspiracy theories thrive.

Review of Robert Putnam’s "The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again"

by Walter G. Moss

Robert Putnam's book on the "Great Divergence" toward economic inequality, political polarization and social fragmentation contains ample historical generalization, but asks big questions that it will be worth historians' time to engage.