Mattias Desmet and Aaron Kheriaty: Understanding the Age of Loneliness

[RUSH TRANSCRIPT BELOW] America is facing an epidemic of loneliness, and it’s as bad for people’s health as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, says U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy. In the past two decades, there’s been a marked rise in suicides and “deaths of despair.” What’s fueling these trends of social fragmentation, iso...