Rousseau's amule is a treatise on education of the 18th century. The author spent 18 months living with this book and what did he learn from it? Some guy on Twitter a couple days ago sent me an apology because he bought my book planning to hate read it. So I just didn't have a category for 'hating' so I carried it around for eight months in 1997.
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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