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Book · 2016 · Social Science

Tribe

On Homecoming and Belonging

by Sebastian Junger · Recommended by 21 people on 13 podcasts

#91 of 16,741 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts

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Sebastian Junger is an amazing war journalist and he wrote a great book called Tribe and his how his book is essentially all about how human beings really only feel at their best and they're happiest when they're coming together to only on something.
Russell Brand · The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2017 Listen at 2:06:35

What they say about it

Grouped from 64 mentions
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The best things said about it

6 of 64 · every mention
Recommended
There's a great book by Sebastian Junger called Tribe. I really recommend everyone read this.
Tim Ferriss The Shawn Ryan Show · Jan 2026
Recommended
Sebastian Junger wrote a great book about it called Tribe. It's a fantastic book. It's really gets to the psychology of it.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2020
Discussed
I think about Sebastian Junger's book Tribe on this program. He talked about how in colonial American times, people who were kidnapped by Native Americans often didn't want to come home after a while because they found themselves more having a more communal life that they valued.
Russ Roberts EconTalk · Sep 2025
Discussed
Sebastian Junger says it in this book Tribe, you know, most combat veterans are more than willing to die for their country, they just don't know how to live for it.
Scott Mann The Shawn Ryan Show · Sep 2024
Discussed
The first book we read was Tribe by Sebastian Junger, and I actually thought it was an incredible first book because it basically talks about so many of these principles of why we are a tribe and how people gather and become sort of a group.
On the show No Stupid Questions · Jun 2024
Discussed
A big part of it is like how living easy and not sustaining massive amounts of difficulty like most people do in these impoverished communities is one of the reasons why people aren't happy is that people actually need struggle.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2017

Where and when it comes up

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Counted mentions by episode date. Our archive is deeper for recent years; 2026 so far.

How it comes up

Recommended means the speaker tells listeners to read it.

Most mentions, by podcast

Top 9 of 13 shows

21 people who brought it up

Most recommendations first

Also: Theo Von · Claudia Hauer · Greg Cowles · Mike Glover · Mike Maughan · Paul Rosolie · Peter Attia · Russell Brand · Scott Mann

Why people recommend it

Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a reflective examination of social cohesion, community, and the psychological impacts of modern isolation compared to traditional societies. Tim Ferriss strongly recommended the book on The Shawn Ryan Show and The Tim Ferriss Show, praising Junger's insights into post-traumatic stress, human connection, and wartime mental health. Ryan Holiday expressed his appreciation for the book on The Daily Stoic, while Joe Rogan repeatedly endorsed it across multiple episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, describing it as a fantastic testament to community and a great summary of the human experience. Jimmy Carr recommended reading Tribe alongside Selfie on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett to better understand our deep-seated need for belonging. On the Monday Morning Podcast, a listener suggested the audiobook version to Bill Burr, highlighting Junger's background as a writer who served in Vietnam and dedicated his life to exploring diverse cultures. Across these appearances, speakers highlighted how the book addresses the psychological need for a tribe and shared purpose, arguing that modern society has lost crucial elements of mutual support. Listeners and hosts alike valued the text for offering deep wisdom regarding how humans naturally band together during crises and why regaining that sense of collective responsibility is essential for mental well-being.

Every mention

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Joe Rogan well everyone I talked to does you know have you ever read um Sebastian youngers book tribe oh yeah yeah I… 28
Discussed
“and like have you read like uh that Sebastian younger book tribe yeah great book”
Recommended
“but I really love tribe yeah tribe”
Recommended
“have you ever read uh Sebastian younger's book tribe great book great sum up of the experience”
Discussed
“sebastian younger oh sebastian younger tribe that that”
Discussed
“do you ever read sebastian younger you have read any of his stuff no [ __ ] amazing guy a really interesting guy like super earnest and he's he's so intelligent he's so like there's no [ __ ] in his words fiction or not non-fiction well i'm sure he does fiction too but i'm a big fan of his”
Discussed
“i think it was you that i've read a quote about you were talking about sebastian younger's book yeah tribe yeah which i loved it's an amazing book”
Recommended
“well i think if any way your work you know i mean i think tribe is a fantastic testament to that and i think you're doing more of the same with freedom”
Recommended
“yeah I have Sebastian Junger wrote a great book about it called tribe it's a fantastic book it's really gets to the psychology of it”
Discussed
“Sebastian Junger wrote about this in a movie the tribe”
Recommended
“one of the things that you know Sebastian Junger is he's a journalist who wrote books on war and he wrote a book called tribe”
Discussed
“one of the things that you know Sebastian Junger is he's a journalist who wrote books on war and he wrote a book called tribe This is a really interesting book It talked a lot about this sort of thing that happens with these guys like The Hurt Locker”
Recommended
“well everyone I talked to does you know have you ever read um Sebastian youngers book tribe oh yeah yeah I just just recently I didn't I I listened to it”
Discussed
“Did you ever read any Sebastian Junger? I did. These tribes are a book. Yes. Read that off your recommendation. Actually did it speak to you? Like in terms of like your own personal experience it made complete sense.”
Discussed
“did you ever read any Sebastian Junger I did these tribes are a book yes read that off your recommendation”
Recommended
“if you ever rid of Sebastian youngers tribe no no it's a great book”
Recommended
“did you read Sebastian Junger tribe no that's the new one right yeah it's a great book”
Discussed
“and Sebastian Junger wrote about this in his book tribe is that the people that experience it have an incredibly difficult time adjusting to regular life”
Discussed
“but Sebastian Junger wrote a book called tribe and it's all about this and it's about these guys coming back from war and trying to just sort of assimilate and having a really difficult time”
Recommended
“yeah you know it's just there's a great book by Sebastian Junger called try right have you read it”
Recommended
“you know the Sebastian Junger is a war journalist you ever heard of him I've listened to every podcast you've done with him Restrepo is one of my favorite documentaries he's amazing his book tribe changed the way I understand that I'm like oh this is a natural part of being human”
Recommended
“and there's a great book by sebastian younger who was on last week oh yeah and uh it's called tribe”
Discussed
“that's a big part of that book tribe you're your book's fantastic by the way i've read it twice since i read it again”
Recommended
“and i really suggest anybody who's interested in this subject please go read it tribe sebastian younger”
Recommended
“have you ever read Sebastian Junger he ever read any of this now he's got a great book called tribe”
Recommended
“Have you ever read Sebastian Junger? He ever read any of this? Now he's got a great book called tribe and it's a lot of it is about what happens to people in times of war and what happens to soldiers the camaraderie that they share together”
Discussed
“does a big part of Sebastian youngers book tribe mm-hmm a big part of it is like how living easy and not not sustaining massive amounts of difficulty like most people do in these impoverished communities is one of the reasons why people aren't happy is that people actually need struggle which is very counterintuitive for a lot of people”
Discussed
“I just got done reading Sebastian younger's uh book tribe”
Discussed
“so uh I've been reading your book man tribe I really enjoy it”
Robert Evans It's I think p was influenced with one of my favorite books, Tribe by Sebastian Younger, which delves into… 5
Discussed
“one of the things Greyber does a good job of going into um uh is like the way in which uh and this is also something that comes up in in in tribe by younger the way in which like during the early period of uh colonization of North America”
Discussed
“One of my favorite books Tribe by Sebastian Younger does talk a bit and there's other books that talk about like some of these people who don't have we would say a conscience right there's uses for these people historically”
Recommended
“It's I think p was influenced with one of my favorite books, Tribe by Sebastian Younger, which delves into some of the same topics.”
Recommended
“It's actually Tribe by Sebastian Younger. Fantastic book. Really good book about PTSD. I recommend it.”
Discussed
“I'm just going to read an unrelated passage from the book Tribe by famed war correspondent Sebastian Junger that just happens to talk about what occurs when children are separated from their parents at a young age too often.”
Tim Ferriss The comment on wartime also makes me think about Tribe by Sebastian Junger, which I — 3
Recommended
“And there's a great book by Sebastian Younger called Tribe. I really recommend everyone read this. I mean, Sebastian has been through some [ __ ] That's about That's about That's about PTSD.”
Discussed
“but there are a couple of stories that I'd love to talk about that are in the book I'm holding in my hand which is tribe subtitle on homecoming and belonging”
Recommended
“The comment on wartime also makes me think about Tribe by Sebastian Junger, which I —”
Ryan Holiday Like you you talked in Tribe about what life must have been like for people who weren't constantly aware th… 2
Discussed
“Like you you talked in Tribe about what life must have been like for people who weren't constantly aware that it was 12:30.”
Recommended
“I just couldn't find Tribe. I love Tribe also.”
Andy Stumpf his book tribe changed the way I understand that I'm like oh this is a natural part of being human and like… 1
Recommended
“his book tribe changed the way I understand that I'm like oh this is a natural part of being human and like we were talking about these reward systems that are built into animals”
Bill Burr i really think you should download an audio book called tribe by sebastian younger spelled j-u-n-g-e-r 1
Recommended
“i really think you should download an audio book called tribe by sebastian younger spelled j-u-n-g-e-r”
Chris Williamson there's a great book written by an author named Sebastian Junger the book is called tribes and it's a very… 1
Recommended
“there's a great book written by an author named Sebastian Junger the book is called tribes and it's a very short book you can read it in two hours and just talks about kind of the social consequences of being in a tribe”
Jimmy Carr There's a great book called Selfie and a great book called Tribe. I remember sort of reading them back to b… 1
Recommended
“There's a great book called Selfie and a great book called Tribe. I remember sort of reading them back to back and thinking, 'Yeah, there's something's going on here.'”
Lex Fridman have you ever read a Sebastian youngers book tribe yeah it's a great book on that I highly recommend it to… 1
Recommended
“have you ever read a Sebastian youngers book tribe yeah it's a great book on that I highly recommend it to people try to understand why that tribal connection”
Morgan Housel There's a great book written by an author named Sebastian Junger the book is called tribes and it's a very… 1
Recommended
“There's a great book written by an author named Sebastian Junger the book is called tribes and it's a very short book”
Shaan Puri like just so you know i've i read this book called tribe and it's all the because i was curious about what… 1
Recommended
“like just so you know i've i read this book called tribe and it's all the because i was curious about what type of neighborhood would be best to live in”
Russ Roberts I would argue you know, Sebastian Junger was on here talking about his book Tribe. I think that's a profoun… 4
Discussed
“I think about Sebastian Younger's book tribe on this program. He talked about how uh in colonial American times, people who were kidnapped by Native Americans often didn't want to come home after a while because they found themselves more having a more communal life that they valued, a life closer to the to nature, and they found many rewards”
Discussed
“i think a lot about um sebastian younger's book tribe when he describes the people who were captured kidnapped often in war by uh native americans in in combat and they're slaves or hostages were prisoners and then after a while they're integrated into the community that they're in”
Discussed
“I think about Sebastian Junger's book Tribe which we we talked about on this program and how um if it's all us and them, you the way he said it, which I think is spectacular, is if you think that the other side is betraying your country, which I think right now is the world we're in, both”
Discussed
“I would argue you know, Sebastian Junger was on here talking about his book Tribe. I think that's a profound book.”
Theo Von I mean there's even that book by Sebastian younger I think it's called tribe maybe where yeah it was about… 4
Discussed
“I mean there's even that book by Sebastian younger I think it's called tribe maybe where yeah it was about that it was about when we were in smaller groups and stuff like that people used to”
Discussed
“I mean there's even that book by Sebastian younger I think it's called tribe maybe where yeah it was about that it was about when we were in smaller groups and stuff like that people used to yeah you would miss somebody they'd be gone it's like otherwise you get so caught up with so many things and the your”
Discussed
“and you had that tribal vibe you know as Sebastian Junger talks about when you had that old school you got different emotions from different places and it was all so close together in your source of family and now maybe you have to go door to door these days to get the love and affection and emotion or little”
Discussed
“and who's that book that everybody reads that was on rogue and the guy tribe no what is it called that sounds familiar man it was about Sebastian Junger yes was it about Mara that's the book right and so this is a lot about and this talks about this book by Sebastian Junger”
Claudia Hauer well i saw your episode with sebastian younger a few years ago because i was a huge fan when his book tribe… 1
Discussed
“well i saw your episode with sebastian younger a few years ago because i was a huge fan when his book tribe came out”
Greg Cowles uh on non-fiction sebastian younger's new book tribe which uh looks at soldiers um and the absence of a tri… 1
Discussed
“uh on non-fiction sebastian younger's new book tribe which uh looks at soldiers um and the absence of a tribal culture in American society today and where people find that um so he he looks at the military as one obvious place for that and he speculates that the absence of tribal culture in American society is part of what”
Mike Glover Sebastian younger his book tribe talks a lot about these issues in society 1
Discussed
“Sebastian younger his book tribe talks a lot about these issues in society”
Mike Maughan the first book we read was tribe by Sebastian younger and I actually thought it was an incredible first book 1
Discussed
“the first book we read was tribe by Sebastian younger and I actually thought it was an incredible first book”
Paul Rosolie you know sebastian younger writes about this about the the the the need for community the tribe and sort of… 1
Discussed
“you know sebastian younger writes about this about the the the the need for community the tribe and sort of the mission”
Peter Attia I only read the first few chapters reading but I really love tribe yeah tribe verstappa I mean these are th… 1
Discussed
“I only read the first few chapters reading but I really love tribe yeah tribe verstappa I mean these are these are amazing things”
Russell Brand are you familiar with uh Sebastian Junger no Sebastian Junger is an amazing war journalist and he wrote a g… 1
Discussed
“are you familiar with uh Sebastian Junger no Sebastian Junger is an amazing war journalist and he wrote a great book called tribe and his how his book is essentially all about how human beings really only feel at their best and they're happiest when they're coming together to only on something”
Scott Mann Sebastian younger says it in this book tribe you know most combat veterans are more than willing to die for… 1
Discussed
“Sebastian younger says it in this book tribe you know most combat veterans are more than willing to die for their country they just don't know how to live for it”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker3
Discussed
“The first book we read was Tribe by Sebastian Junger, and I actually thought it was an incredible first book because it basically talks about so many of these principles of why we are a tribe and how people gather and become sort of a group, but very different than the Priya Parker thing.”
Recommended
“All right, book recommendation, dear Billy Book Smart. I know you're a busy man, but I really think you should download an audiobook called Tribe by Sebastian Junger, spelled J-U-N-G-E-R.”
Recommended
“look it is in many ways similar to war and this is why because when people are they have a real cause and when war is going on there's a lot of people that I know that have served overseas and one of the hard kind of scary truths is it's some of the best times they're live yeah yeah”

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Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“You, you know who Sebastian Younger is? He's wrote the Brook Tribe Tribes. Um, phenomenal author.”
Passing
“uh let's start with the title of the book um we have we have discussed the book tribe on this program okay uh and it is a by Sebastian Jer”
Passing
“and most recently wrote a book called tribe that touches on some similar topic area”
Passing
“I mean as a journalist I'm very hesitant to actually give advice to people in my book tribe I really I really try not to tell the country what I think we all should do”
Passing
“I think it was Sebastian younger book or something it was about um oh uh tribe oh yeah yeah with that book what was that book called”
Plugged
“you know i wrote a book called tribe you know it's hard to define what a tribe is”
Passing
“he was last here in december of 2018 talking about his book tribe”

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