The author argues that travel is a fundamental form of learning. He says you can't really understand where you're from until you go somewhere else and see a different form of social organization. "I don't think we're helping our kids right now understand the need to get to another place more often," he says.
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.
Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch the full video.
Recorded June 14th, 2017
Other ways to connect