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Sebastian Junger

@sebastianjunger

New book In My Time of Dying - 5/21 Author of The Perfect Storm, War, Tribe, Freedom Co-Director of the Oscar-nominated @RestrepoMovie Founder of @risctraining

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How I came face to face with the idea of an afterlife. "In My Time of Dying" will be available May 21 bit.ly/m/SebastianJun…
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Drone swarms, 400,000 men under arms and a regime that knows failure means death. How does the US even begin to fight a ground war in Iran? Join Iran expert Scott Anderson in a short, intense conversation about Trump's war and what may be coming... TRIBE With Sebastian Junger - EP 1 The Future of the War in Iran feat. Scott Anderson open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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I spent the past year reading some of the greatest novels written in English to find the secret to good writing. This week, I take a look at John McPhee's Basin and Range. Now available on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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The task of journalism is to confront powerful people with facts and conversations they don’t want to have, and in this case, the conversation is about an economic system that may literally break our democracy. Both parties are responsible because the wealth gap continues to widen regardless of who’s in power. CLINGING TO THE OUTSIDE OF A TRAIN is now available on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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I spent the past year reading some of the greatest novels written in English to find the secret to good writing. This week, I take a look at All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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It’s hard to know what to think about the attack on Iran. Getting blown up in Afghanistan has helped me make sense of such things… "WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO GET BLOWN UP" is available on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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I recently went on Chip Conely's Podcast "Midlife Chrysalis." We had a fascinating conversation about Death, Belonging, and what it means to be human. You can find the episode on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
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I spent the past year reading some of the greatest novels written in English to find the secret to good writing. This week, I take a look at a one of the most influential authors of the 20th century with "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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For millennia, some cultures have refused to be ruled or controlled by others. The implications today are profound. How have humans stayed free for so long? "FREEDOM" is now available on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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I spent the past year reading some of the greatest novels written in English to find the secret to good writing. This week, I take a look at a 19th Century Classic, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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I spent the past year reading some of the greatest novels written in English to find the secret to good writing. This week, I take a look at Mary Heaton Vorse's ode to American steel manufacturing, Men and Steel. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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Alex Pretti had a phone and a gun. They helped kill him - and may help liberate us. How do we reconcile that? "GUNS PHONES AND FREEDOM" is available on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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Why do some people get to tell other people what to do? Last October I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Santa Fe Institute’s conference on complex systems. I decided to give a 45 minute talk on the uses - and misuses - of rules in human society. "RULES" is now available on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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I spent the past year reading some of the greatest novels written in English to find the secret to good writing. This week, I take a look at a quintessential American Classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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A century ago, the labor movement laid the groundwork for the Anti-ICE Protests in Minneapolis. What can we learn from them? WOMEN ARE THE KEY” is available on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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It’s hard to know what to think about the attack on Iran. Getting blown up in Afghanistan has helped me make sense of such things… "WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO GET BLOWN UP" is now available on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/sebastianj…
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