Sebastian Junger on stoicism, the Democrats' man problem, and what happens when we die

Sebastian Junger is the author of The Perfect Storm, War, Tribe, Freedom, and most recently In My Time of Dying: How I came face to face with the idea of an afterlife.We discuss… Sebastian’s literary heroes Sebastian’s literary motivations The state of Sebastian’s “tribal health.” The wealthier the neighborhood, the weaker the community? How big spaces pull us apart—as discussed in Sebastian’s recent essay, “The Great Abandonment.”Ishmael and Queequeg together in bed, as sketched by Rockwell Kent, 1930 The virtues of stoicism American Psychological Association on traditional masculinity: “The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful.” What’s a definition of what manhood is (existentially speaking)? Sebastian’s viral Substack post: Young Men and How the Democrats Lost Them Harvard Professor pushed out for using words like male and female. Fighting words and uplifting voices from Democrats: Talarico on Colbert & Jon Ossoff  Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on Ezra KleinGluesenkamp for president Voting, jury duty, and giving blood: symbolic gestures of national connection I propose some radical ideas to simulate tribal dynamics in a more populous, peacetime world. Sebastian’s NDE (Near Death Experience) which led him down a scientific journey to understand the un-understandable I turn on the hot lights and ask Sebastian: are NDE visions a product of biology or a consciousness that’s not entirely contained in the brain? How Sebastian explains death and the afterlife to his children.