The animating principle is this idea of universal human dignity, and it's intoxicating. We believe that people are created with dignity and their rights don't come to them from government. It isn't the benevolence of government that grants you the right to free speech, assembly, religion, press, protest or redress of grievances. That's an unbelievable idea. And then from that, we build a government that exists to secure those rights, but government's just a tool.
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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