In Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal, bestselling author and U.S. senator Ben Sasse argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, our crisis of despair isn’t really about politics. It’s that we’re so lonely we can’t see straight—and it bubbles out as anger. “There’s a path forward,” he contends—but reversing our decline requires something radical: a rediscovery of real places and human-to-human relationships. Even as technology nudges us to become rootless, Sasse shows how only a recovery of rootedness can heal our lonely souls.