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The “Tissue Review” | September 2025
On 1990s communitarians, better civic elders, and the importance of riffing — plus, our new member portal and two member-led events
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The “Tissue Review” | August 2025
Getting weird, cross-class mixing, and feeling hopeful (except us)
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The “Tissue Review” | July 2025
On finding mystery in the digital age, partying in the U.S.A, and “solving loneliness” through A.I.
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The Tissue Review: Our top pieces, favorite reads + groups, and newsletter resolutions
In 2024, we entered our toddler years at Connective Tissue.
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Joy to the (Civic) World
Plus, what we lose when optimizing community, the adulthood crisis, and loneliness as the tip of the iceberg
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Love's braided dance
Plus, our nation of homebodies, how individualism leads to conformity, and government's role in strengthening associational life
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Good things come in twos
Two essays on the class divide in civic life, two pieces on community for parents, two new podcasts, and two ways policy can promote neighborhood…
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Kids these days
On “play streets,” meaning-making and child-rearing, and our “forgotten kin”
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Cutting off your family? Grief culture? Buying back the block?
Highlighting the community content you may have missed between all of the U.S. political headlines.
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Lockdown nostalgia? Becoming better men? Mapping social trust?
A post-holiday week backlog of listens, reads, and resources
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A Surgeon General’s warning? A Trust for Civic Life? Peak Loneliness?
A hot week for reads!
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Taking a trip
Are psychedelics escapist drugs or healing medicines? Pseudo-religious cults or embedded religious groups? Yes.
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