Older Really Can Mean Wiser

Benedict Carey, The New York Times, March 16, 2015 Behind all those canned compliments for older adults — spry! wily! wise! — is an appreciation for something that scientists have had a hard time characterizing: mental faculties that improve with age. The...

Can Robert Putnam Save the American Dream?

Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 12, 2015 Robert D. Putnam ­— Harvard political scientist, trumpeter of community revival, consultant to the last four presidents ­— visited Cambridge’s Lesley University to sound an alarm. “What I...