The absence of a clearly defined set of strategic choices around a next frontier is one of the things that leads to a real worry about declining ambition for lots of folks. I think David Brooks has done some really interesting stuff talking about the way Americans have historically looked to the future in ways that there's clearly a transition happening right now. So I worry that there's not enough looking to the future, and we need a lot more shared vision about what those big opportunities are.
The US senator and former college president joined Tyler for a conversation on adolescence, adulthood, driving for Uber, loving Luther, hate-reading Rousseau, the decline of small towns, backpacking across Europe, America’s peculiar fondness for age-segregation, and why his latest book contains so little sex.
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Recorded June 14th, 2017
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