Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

by Sebastian Junger

Lyons hypothesized that men in the peaceful areas were depressed because they couldn’t help their society by participating in the struggle.

The United States is so powerful that the only country capable of destroying her might be the United States herself, which means that the ultimate terrorist strategy would be to just leave the country alone.

true leadership—the kind that lives depend on—may require powerful people to put themselves last,

just dead inside. It was the one thing that, poor as he was, he absolutely refused to be.