How old you are is a pretty fundamental fact about your life. I worry also with people aging and going more into nursing homes, we will become a more age segregated society. It isn't just 13 year olds being around 60 and 75 year olds; it should be that because the pattern of life is you start needing diapers and you end up needing diapers. And so there are older people who need us but they're also younger people who needs us.
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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