Ben Sasse is a fifth-generation Nebraskan. He says Kansas and Nebraska feel like very different states to him. They have almost an identical per capita income, median income,. age structure, demographics. "I've been to both states... As all freedom-loving people should be"
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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