Sebastian Junger on death, life, and finding your tribe - The Fifth Column

We are joined by journalist, author, filmmaker, and chainsaw-wielder Sebastian Junger. His latest book In My Time of Dying is a touching reflection on death… and what might follow.

•You can always start drinking again

•Enough to make ⅔ of these grown men cry

•Sebastian’s (most recent) near-death experience

•Danger in, insight out

•Momento Mori

•There’s nothing so dangerous as a wounded Apache

•Don’t have an aortic rupture in Truro in July

•ICU humor

•Hi dad

•An existential digression

•Better than the one with Will Farrel

•Ideological Duolingo

•Hot tip from an immigration officer

•Old-time antisemitism

•Bestselling author sleeps with chainsaw

•Sarajevo & the Spanish Civil War

•Men’s Journal and the good old days of war reporting

•The folly of Afghanistan and nation-building on the cheap

•Some things are sacred

•Investigating near death experiences

•Don’t test Santa Claus

•Etymology of a curse

•Atheists, physicists, and consciousness

•God of the gaps

•Yes, we are literally talking about quantum physics

•The science of myth

•The reason for the need the idea of heaven

•Restrepo

•Why we all need a tribe

•Things were better when they were bad

•If you’re not sufficiently terrified, you’re not getting it.

•A tribute to dangerous jobs

•Making meaning in a meaningless universe

•A Bostonian goodbye

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