To make its research readily available to a broad audience, the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy publishes this quarterly newsletter. Articles are intended to advance philosophically informed debate on current policy choices; the views presented are not necessarily those of the Institute or its sponsors.

In This Issue:

Introduction

Robert K. Fullinwider

The Foundations of Trust

Robert Wuthnow

The Moral Effects of Associational Life

Nancy L. Rosenblum

American Civil Society Talk

Jean L. Cohen

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
The Erosion and Transformation
of African American Civic Life

Fredrick C. Harris

The "Quickened Conscience":
Women's Voluntarism and the State,
1890-1920

Kathryn Kish Sklar

Civic Infrastructure in America:
Government and the Nonprofit Sector

Steven Rathgeb Smith