How do religious values implicitly, as well as explicitly, influence our values? What sorts of religious institutions stand at the heart of our civic life, and do they affect our values by their presence? To what degree are our most cherished Western values actually the same or the result of our...

Two very different scholars of American society look at the United States and the growing gap in values and behaviors among communities and classes within them. What is happening and why? What do we do to restore our sense of common purpose? And most of all, what is at risk? Moderated by David...