Sebastian Junger on Tribe

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🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book Tribe with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Junger explores the human need to be needed and the challenges facing many individuals in modern society who struggle to connect with others. His studies of communal connection include soldiers in a small combat unit and American Indian society in the nineteenth century.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.8	Today is December 7, 2018, and my guest is journalist and author, Sebastian Younger.
0:39.3	He's the author of the perfect storm, fire, a death in Belmont War.
0:43.8	He has a contributing editor, vanity fair, and special correspondent at ABC News.
0:48.1	He has covered major international news stories around the world and has received both the
0:51.7	National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award.
0:54.6	His latest book from 2016 is Tribe on Homecoming and Belonging, which is the subject of today's
1:01.2	conversation.
1:02.2	Sebastian, welcome to Econ Talk.
1:03.9	Thank you very much.
1:05.4	Now it's bidding.
1:06.4	This is probably going to be the last episode of 2018.
1:08.9	It might end up being the first one of 2019.
1:10.9	We'll see, but I took a rough look and counted.
1:14.6	I probably read 25 or 26 books this year for Econ Talk.
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