On the Shoulders of Giants

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Yuval Levin joins James, Rob and John Yoo to remind us of the Constitution's unifying purpose in the era of polarization and mutually held suspicions between the parties. His latest book, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again, disputes the prevailing pessimism as well as passive optimism, settling instead on a hopeful case for American coalition building.

Plus, the hosts discuss Kamala Harris's strange campaign strategy of running on "her" record, wonder why the kids are skeptical of abundance, and consider the appeal of 15-minute cities.

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0:00.0	or poor carrier pigeons.
0:04.0	Ask not what your country can do for you.
0:09.0	Ask what you can do for your country.
0:12.0	Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
0:17.0	It's the Ricochet podcast with Rob Long, John You and me, James Lylex.
0:21.0	Today we talk to Yval Levin about his new book about the Constitution.
0:24.0	I would Unified America once and could do it again.
0:27.0	So let's have ourselves a podcast.
0:29.0	I've known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much. And she was always of Indian
0:35.9	heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black
0:40.5	until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now she
0:44.7	wants to be known as black. Welcome everybody this is the Ricochet
0:54.2	podcast number 702 and I'm James Lallix in a beautiful summer day in
0:58.0	Minneapolis Rob Long in Gotham we presume and John you is joining us from
1:02.0	California of course the crucible of sanity in the modern world, and sure he's going to tell us all about that.
1:07.0	Ah, gentlemen, welcome. Hello.
1:10.0	Well, hi James.
1:15.0	John, this is where you... Right, that's what you do.
1:18.0	Sometimes in radio and broadcasting we like to say, the more dead air the better, but oftentimes we like to just kind of jump in
1:24.3	there with something that just gets the ball rolling the ball now seems to be
1:28.4	rolling uphill for Donald Trump downhill for Kamla Harris as she's vaulted to the front of the
1:33.9	race she's America's sweetheart and without really anybody taking a look at the
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