The Loneliest Crowd | National Affairs

Observers of the state of America in 2023 tend to use the language of disconnection: We hear about alienation, polarization, declines in trust and civic participation, and, if we are inclined to dig for deeper roots, loneliness. This kind of problem ...

The Loneliest Crowd Ian Marcus Corbin Summer 2023 Observers of the state of America in 2023 tend to use the language of disconnection: We hear about alienation, polarization, declines in trust and civic participation, and, if we are inclined to dig for deeper roots, loneliness. For the past several years, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has traveled the country, warning about an "epidemic" of loneliness that functions as a cause and contributor to a number of psychosocial maladies — alcohol and drug addiction, depression, anxiety, and violence. In 2018, then-senator Ben Sasse wrote a book arguing

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