Sebastian Junger on Freedom

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book, Freedom, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The book and conversation are based on a 400-mile walk Junger took with buddies along railroad rights-of-way, evading police, railroad security, and other wanderers. Junger discusses the ever-present tension between the human desire to be free and the desire to be interconnected and part of something. Along the way, Junger talks about the joy of walking, the limits of human endurance, war, and why the more powerful, better-equipped military isn't always the winner.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
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0:19.0	information related to today's conversation.
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0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:29.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:36.8	Today is May 25, 2021.
0:38.8	My guest is journalist and author Sebastian Younger.
0:42.6	His latest book is called Freedom, which is our topic for today.
0:46.6	It was last year in December of 2018 talking about his book Tribe, Sebastian.
0:51.6	Welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:53.6	Thank you.
0:54.6	It's a pleasure to be back talking to you.
0:56.4	This book is an extended meditation.
0:58.5	I would say on what it means to be free.
1:00.2	It's a strange book.
1:01.2	It's a wonderful book.
1:02.5	It's very short, one of my favorite things.
1:07.2	Its context is a very long walk that you took, maybe 400 miles, with some other folks.
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