Tag: loneliness
Loneliness Is Inflaming Our Bodies—And Our Politics
Opinion Loneliness Is Inflaming Our Bodies—And Our Politics Medical research shows that social isolation is a serious chronic stressor. You can say something similar about its impact on our political system By Kim Samuel Hannah Arendt has been on my mind a lot lately. The 20th-century German-Jewish political philosopher escaped the Nazi Holocaust, and won…
Fighting loneliness in rural Maine, one casserole at a time
By Caitlin Shetterly Back in 2023, Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway, a husband and wife team, had recently published two volumes of the Maine Community Cookbook when they heard that the U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, had declared an epidemic of loneliness. Murthy wrote, “It is associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia,…