"Join or Die": A Review

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 just…