Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2017-06-28
Books mentioned on Ben Sasse on the Space between Nebraska and Neverland (Live at Mason)
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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Emile
Discussed“this is a book on education and we all know you know the great Classic tretis on education of the 18th century is Russo as Emil”
Where to get it
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The Vanishing American Adult
The Vanishing American Adult by Ben Sasse is a book addressing contemporary challenges in maturity, education, and raising the next generation.
Recommended“there is book signing outside this book Ben sass The Vanishing American adult”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing On Golden Pond
“who we might think of is kind of Grandpa On Golden Pond”
Passing The Complacent Class
“here I could tap this guy named Tyler Cowan who has an interesting new book about a lot of our sapped dynamism at the present moment”
Own book The Vanishing American Adult
“and then he said he read The Vanishing American adult”