Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2017-06-28
Tyler Cowen & Ben Sasse: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
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.
Tyler Cowen recommended The Vanishing American Adult by Ben Sasse, and discussed Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Ben Sasse discussed Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Emile
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile is an influential eighteenth-century treatise exploring the philosophy of education and human development.
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 non-fiction book that examines the challenges facing young people in contemporary society and the decline of traditional civic preparedness.
Recommended“there is book signing outside this book Ben sass The Vanishing American adult”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so Bruce Springsteen he's done this album called Nebraska”
“who we might think of is kind of Grandpa On Golden Pond”
“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”
“and then he said he read The Vanishing American adult”