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The Anti-Social Century - The Atlantic

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Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 41:37 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The Bar Is Closed A short drive from my home in North Carolina is a small Mexican restaurant, with several tables and four stools at a bar facing the kitchen. On a sweltering afternoon last summer, I walked in with my wife and daughter. The place was empty. But looking closer, I realized that business was booming. The bar was covered with to-go food: nine large brown bags. As we ate our meal, I watched half a dozen people enter the restaurant without sitting down to eat. E

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