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Derek Thompson
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A new essay by Derek Thompson argues that hosting friends at home is dying out in the United States. People are home more than ever, yet social visits have fallen sharply, with Americans spending far less time entertaining friends than in previous decades. The piece attributes the shift to loneliness, screen time, cost pressures and the decline of so-called 'third places', and readers are debating whether the collapse of at-home hospitality reflects a broader retreat from community life.
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Writer Derek Thompson argues that Americans have stopped hosting each other for dinner, tracing what he calls the death of the American host. The essay, now heavily discussed online, links the decline of home entertaining to rising loneliness, shrinking social ties and the migration of social life to restaurants, screens and paid experiences rather than the dinner table.