Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2026-01-09
Books mentioned on Sebastian Junger On Being Addicted To The Illusion of Control" | Daily Stoic Podcast
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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In My Time of Dying
In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger is a profound personal and philosophical exploration of mortality, near-death experiences, and the concept of an afterlife following the author's own life-threatening medical emergency.
Discussed“So, in the new book, uh, In My Time of Dime, you open with this story of you almost drowning, right?”
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Tribe
Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a concise and poignant exploration of the human psychological need for community, belonging, and shared purpose, particularly in the aftermath of modern alienation and crisis.
Recommended“I just couldn't find Tribe. I love Tribe also.”
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The Raw and the Cooked
Discussed“And I remember I I brought I don't know why they just didn't beat me up right then and there but I brought Cloud Levy Strauss. Yeah. Right. Uh and the raw and the cooked I think it was.”
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Insurgent Mexico
Discussed“He wrote a book called Insurgent Mexico and there's a there's a paragraph that the that describes the tropa ponchovia's troop.”
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Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is a notoriously brutal and visceral 20th-century American novel set along the Texas-Mexico border, often described as a hellish masterpiece reminiscent of Dante's Inferno.
Discussed“Oh, that is a famous paragraph, right, from Blood Meridian.”
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Discussed“There's a obviously you know for whom the bell tolls by Hemingway and you know the sort of like central drama of it is this is a night before this military operation where Robert Jordan I think his name is the the narrator or the the main character.”
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Own book Freedom
“Yeah, I I wrote a book, Freedom, which I see over there next to you on the table. I just couldn't find Tribe. I love Tribe also.”
Own book Freedom
“I looked at in in my book Freedom, I looked at a gang in Chicago in the 1960s.”