"Join or Die": A Review

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America’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…