The average American has 1.8 friends, down from 3.2 in 1990. 40% of Americans have no confidence in the political system. The biggest long-term thought most politicians have right now is their own reelection moment. There's a fundamental crisis of loneliness in our time that we don't know how to think about.
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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