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Name: Them
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Author: Benjamin E. Sasse

Presents an assessment of the existential crisis in modern America that explores how increasing social isolation and the collapse of traditional community connections lead to tension and pessimism, arguing that the solution is a rediscovery of human connections.

First publish date: 2018

Authors: Benjamin E. Sasse

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