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The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic—Asterisk

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Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment in American history? When it comes to friendship, this isn’t the first time that authorities have cried wolf.

The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic—Asterisk Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment in American history? When it comes to friendship, this isn’t the first time that authorities have cried wolf. Social scientists studying a representative town in America’s heartland reported widespread concern among its residents that friendship was waning, that true friends were fewer than a generation before. This report, Middletown , was published in 1929. About two decades later, The Lonely Crowd , a sociological study of American character in the post-war era, described its subjects as shall

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