Our Fractured Society: A Conversation with Yuval Levin
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:08.0 | front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Albert Moa, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:17.0 | Yevolovine is the founding editor of National Affairs, a contributing editor to National Review and the Weekly Standard. |
| 0:23.6 | He's a fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:28.0 | Previously he served in the White House of President George W. Bush on his domestic policy staff. |
| 0:33.2 | He has been identified as the most influential conservative intellectual of the Obama era. |
| 0:38.5 | His new book is entitled The Factured Republic Renewing America Social Contract in the age of individualism. |
| 0:44.8 | Dr Yvonne, welcome to thinking in public. |
| 0:47.6 | Dr. Levine, your new book The Fractured Republic has to be one of the best timed books in terms of recent publishing history. |
| 0:55.8 | Did you foresee it in that context or quite frankly has the 2016 context? Just been the right moment for your book to appear. |
| 1:06.0 | Well, I certainly didn't foresee all the twists and turns of this year, no, but I think that the kind of fracturing that's on display in the selection has been |
| 1:13.7 | unfortunately visible for some time and coming at us for a while and so the |
| 1:19.3 | book really starts from the kind of intense frustration that's so much on display this here and |
| 1:24.3 | that has been easier to see in some of the specific political terms obviously. |
| 1:29.5 | Your leading indictment in terms of the reason that America faces its contemporary and very urgent political crisis |
| 1:39.0 | is what you identify as nostalgia. |
| 1:42.0 | And by the way, today's addition to the New York |
| 1:44.0 | Times as we speak includes an important headline story by Neil Irwin on the |
| 1:49.0 | challenges of running on economic nostalgia Perhaps he even was prompted to write that by your book. |
| 1:57.0 | Well, you know, it's incredible when you listen to how our politicians talk to us and how people talk to one another |
| 2:05.0 | in our political life just how powerful that sense of nostalgia is and how much it |
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