Now a New York Times bestseller
We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and
understanding--tribes. This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern
society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.
Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English
settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians almost never
did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on
Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary
past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat
veterans who