How anxious institutions affect us all (with Yuval Levin)

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🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In the diagnosis of the epidemic of anxiety sweeping through society, the examination has tended to focus on individual risk factors or macro-social trends (like social media and smartphone adoption among teens). But this misses something going on at the intermediary level between individuals and mass society: the state of the institutions that shape so much of our daily life. Curtis is joined by renowned scholar Yuval Levin in exploring the concept of “the anxious institution.” They make the case that institutions both externally cause and internally experience anxiety in fascinating and important ways.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Curtis Chang and I am very excited this week to share with you
0:22.5	an episode that we recorded before a live audience in Washington DC a few weeks ago.
0:29.3	The conversation is with Yuval Levin who is one of the most preeminent scholars of institutions
0:35.5	in our society.
0:36.5	So at some level it's not surprising we would have had a great conversation but I really
0:41.0	do think this was one of my favorite episodes of the year and I find it fascinating that
0:45.9	it was with somebody who is not a follower of Jesus but is a person of devout faith,
0:52.4	a related but distinct faith as a devout Jew.
0:55.8	And I think it shows the power of good faith, good faith conversations that we can have even
1:01.6	when the faiths are distinct but related.
1:04.5	So without further ado, here is my conversation with Yuval Levin.
1:14.2	All right, well get started, welcome everybody, I'm Yuval Levin at the American Enterprise
1:17.8	Institute.
1:18.8	Thank you for being here with us.
1:20.8	This is really Curtis's show, literally we're taping an episode of Curtis's podcast.
1:25.6	And so he's going to take over and introduce but I just wanted to say a word about him
1:28.7	to start for those of you who might need a sense of who he is.
1:34.2	You really should know Curtis Chang, he is an unusual figure in our public life because
1:39.1	he has, he's the kind of bridge between two worlds that don't often get bridged.
1:44.5	He's on the one hand engaged and involved in the world that we might call management consultant,
1:50.2	is that an insult?
1:51.2	No insult.
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