A Mature Conversation About American Adulthood

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 18, 2014

This segment originally aired live on September 18, 2014. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on January 1, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here. 

New York Times film critic A.O. Scott's essay, "The Death of Adulthood in American Culture" has sparked a wide conversation about the state of our culture, society, and "seriousness" in the U.S.A. Contributing editor to New York Magazine and Vulture, Adam Sternbergh, and TV critic for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum, join Scott as we gather three of our favorite cultural critics to what adulthood means, as reflected in our culture, circa 2014.

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