Daily Archives: October 9, 2007

Diversity Not Always So Great

Robert Putnam, who wrote the book Bowling Alone, recently published a paper that found: "New evidence from the US suggests that in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down’. Trust (even of one’s own race) is … Continue reading

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Ads On Page One Of LA Times

Kirk emails: "Don’t you think the LA Times running ads on page one is the signal of the end of a once great paper? When I was in journalism school, no paper would ever be taken seriously if they ran … Continue reading

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