There's three pages in your book about sex. I wanted to stay away from sex 100%. And then ultimately, I couldn't do it. The intergenerational chapter for a while, I framed as discover the body. So much of unhealthy utopian status projects in the world are driven by a denial of mortality. But if you think of the distinction between childhood and adulthood,. why adolescence is a glorious gift?
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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