Why Americans Are So Awful to One Another - The Atlantic

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 44:27 This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. O ver the past eight years or so, I’ve been obsessed with two questions. The first is: Why have Americans become so sad? The rising rates of depression have been well publicized, as have the rising deaths of despair from drugs, alcohol, and suicide. But other statistics are similarly troubling. The percentage of people who say they don’t have close friends has increased fourfold sinc

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