Senator ben sasse republican u. S. Senator from nebraska thank you so much for joining me. Im excited to discuss your book its called the american vanishing adult and what i find striking about it as i was reading it i think the idea for this probably originated long before you even became usni. Very nonpolitical and its about how we are raising our kids. Maybe you can tell us more about how you decided to write this book. Guest first of all thank you for having me. The book is 100 not about politics and its about a whole bunch of upstream issues in our culture. More important than american politics and you are right by background im a business turnaround guy but im by training an american historian could i spent five years as a college president. Eight years ago i led a turnaround at a college and i cared about this institution. It was in financial trouble. My grandpa went to the college and came back from world war ii and worked at this college. I grew up on this campus because my fa