A Conversation with Dr. Yuval Levin about Rebuilding Institutions

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Russell Moore

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this episode of Signposts, I am joined by Dr. Yuval Levin to talk about his latest book A Time to Build. He is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founding and current editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor of The New Atlantis and a contributing editor to National Review. Dr. Levin served as a member of the White House domestic policy staff under President George W. Bush. He was also executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics and a congressional staffer at the member, committee, and leadership levels. I invite you to listen in on our conversation, and be sure to subscribe to receive future episodes of Signposts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.0	Hello this Russell Moore and you're listening to signposts. This is where we gather
0:56.8	together electronically every week to have conversations and to listen in on conversations with some of my favorite
1:04.6	thinkers and leaders and people who can help us to examine what's going on in the
1:09.5	world around us and today we're going to be talking looking at signposts in a strange land as we
1:17.0	always do in the area of institutions. Some of you who get my newsletter know that we talked a little bit about what I call the Parks and Rec rule of public meetings because of the clip that went around taking people at city council meetings and boards of supervisors
1:36.3	meetings who were screaming and saying crazy things about masks and and whatever and they put it alongside clips from Parks and Rec because the
1:47.5	joke was the entire world has become the sitcom Parks and Recreation and what we talked about the newsletter is it's always
1:55.1	been that way largely because the people who show up at city council meetings or any sort of open mic forum tend to be the people who care the
2:07.4	most about what's going on and sometimes those are people who aren't as calm or reasonable as maybe even most people in their
2:16.6	cities or in their town. So there's something that goes on with institutions that can skew them.
2:23.5	And of course, that's just the least of the issues
2:26.7	that we're dealing in terms of institutions.
2:28.7	That's one of the reasons why I was really excited
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