I think one of the things that's really unhealthy about our political discourse is this contempt. I don't like your public policy, but you're bad for the country. And we should demand a better standard of our elected officials and our journalists as well. Freedom is something that we gave ourselves. That's not something that can be taken away. It's a political, freedom is a political contract. Al-Qaeda cannot destroy our freedom because it's self-given. No one's going to come shooting their way into America and take our freedom away"
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.