Ben Sasse

Former Republican Senator from Nebraska (2015–2023) — former President of Midland University — author of The Vanishing American Adult and Them — who resigned from the Senate to become President of the University of Florida.

Creates the diagnostic literature on American adolescent development failure — Sasse's The Vanishing American Adult argues that American culture has stopped transmitting adult competencies and virtues to young people, producing permanent adolescence; the argument resonated across political lines.