I wrote an essay about rampage killing and shooting sprays that seem to be on the rise in America. I'd love it if we didn't cover these tragedies and didn't name the names of the people who did these things. That's not going to happen in a free society. So I think we've got to think about why these happen and what needs to change it. Or just accept it, because he thinks it's part and parcel of our freedom that we allow people to live by themselves. We let people live on the street. It's also a very, not so good thing that we let people be on their own and miserable lonely.
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.