Episode 73 – Formative Institutions with Yuval Levin

1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Episode 73 – Formative Institutions with Yuval Levin Among the legions of intellectuals and academics milling about Washington D.C., few commands more respect than Yuval Levin.&nbsp; Yuval has worked in the nation’s capital for decades and has a surprisingly hopeful message for the prospects of conservatism’s future and the fate of the republic.&nbsp; Yet he is soberminded about the challenges we face, chiefly the failure of our institutions to form us into the kind of people fit to live in a society of ordered liberty. &nbsp; Yuval joins Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis to discuss why are institutions are important, why they’re failing us, and what we can do about it.&nbsp; They also discuss the intellectual roots of the modern Left and Right and what Edmund Burke contributed to modern political thought. &nbsp; Yuval Levin is a political analyst,&nbsp;public intellectual,&nbsp;academic, and&nbsp;journalist. &nbsp;He is the founding editor of&nbsp;National Affairs, director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the&nbsp;American Enterprise Institute, a contributing editor of&nbsp;National Review, and co-founder and a senior editor of&nbsp;The New Atlantis.&nbsp; He also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. &nbsp; Yuval served as a member of the White House domestic policy staff under President George W. Bush.&nbsp; He was also executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics and a congressional staffer at the member, committee, and leadership levels. &nbsp; Yuval’s essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications, among them,&nbsp;The New York Times,&nbsp;The Washington Post,&nbsp;The Wall Street Journal,&nbsp;Commentary. &nbsp;He is the author of five books, two of which are discussed in detail in the episode: A Time to Build and The Great Debate. &nbsp; Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values https://www.savingelephantsblog.com/ <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17197526/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/91184888