Tyler Cowell: You can't possibly become a really good parent without developing empathy. He says teens need to be transported to other times and places by reading fiction. Cowell: There's a real danger of tribalism in the digital age because we're going to have more niche channels.
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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