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Ben Sasse
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Ben Sasse is an American politician and academic administrator who represented Nebraska in the U.S. Senate and later served as a university president.
Biography
Benjamin Eric Sasse was born in Plainview, Nebraska, in 1972. He studied at Harvard University, St. John’s College, and Yale University, and later taught at the University of Texas. Early in his career he served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the George W. Bush administration and in 2010 was named the 15th president of Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska.
Sasse was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2014 and re-elected in 2020 as a member of the Republican Party. He resigned from the Senate in January 2023 to become president of the University of Florida and resigned that post in July 2024 citing his wife’s health. He has been a critic of Donald Trump and was among seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial. In December 2025 he announced a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer.
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Books by Ben Sasse
The Vanishing American Adult
In The Vanishing American Adult Sasse argues that many young Americans lack formative experiences—such as hard work, travel, serious reading, and physical cultivation—because of overprotective parenting and misdirected programs. He diagnoses a generational crisis and urges parents to encourage core experiences that prepare youths for responsible citizenship, warning that a deficit of mature adults threatens democratic life.