<![CDATA[Eric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits: Reviews]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/s/reviewshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yiLh!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc922ccd8-e1bc-45ee-99e8-5eaf39de73d9_256x256.pngEric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits: Reviewshttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/s/reviewsSubstackSun, 19 Apr 2026 01:50:32 GMT<![CDATA["Join or Die": A Review]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/join-or-die-a-reviewhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/join-or-die-a-reviewMon, 21 Jul 2025 11:46:30 GMTAmerica’s crumbling civic soul gets a hard look in Join or Die, a documentary riffing on Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone (2000). It’s a 100-minute dirge for the death of social capital, that invisible glue of community that once held this nation together.

But for all its otherwise-excellent hand-wringing, the film misses the real villain, and it’s not jus…

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