All public searches in Nebraska are supposed to be declared. When you're searching for a new president of the university system, that takes away a whole bunch of candidates. Most people are not going to be a party to a search where they might publicly lose. If you have a lot of opportunities in life, the impulse toward transparency and executive search is not always a great impulse.
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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