Sally Kohn: We have material progress, but socially we're struggling as your book really is. There's no use arguing that modern society isn't a kind of paradise. She says the poorest people in modern society enjoy a level of physical comfort unimaginable a thousand years ago.Kohn: I think it's totally misunderstood what's happened to the standard of living the average person in America over the last 50 years.
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.