The Constitution-Paved Path To Repair America

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Yuval Levin, the director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute and founder and editor of National Affairs, joins Emily Jashinsky to outline the biggest problems plaguing the divided American political system and discuss how the Constitution can remedy them.

You can find Levin's book, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again, here.

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0:00.0	Oh, We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Tushinsky,
0:20.2	culture editor here at the Federalist as always. You can email the show at radio at the Federalist.
0:24.3	Follow us on X at FDR LST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and of course to the
0:29.9	premium version of our website the Federalist.com as well.
0:33.2	I'm joined today by Yevo Laveen.
0:34.9	He is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
0:37.4	and editor at National Affairs
0:39.0	and also the author of the new book,
0:40.6	which is on June 11th, It's called American Covenant how the Constitution
0:44.2	unified our nation and could again. Yval, thank you so much for joining us.
0:49.0	Thank you very much for having me. Yeah, this book is so interesting and I want to start with the obvious question you're probably going to get a lot which is why now? Why write this book right now? What brought you to this particular project at this moment in time?
1:05.1	Yeah, you know, I think in some ways why now may be the easiest question, which is we're in a moment when on the one hand we clearly want to be a more unified society.
1:14.4	We understand a lot of our problems in terms of disunity and breakdown,
1:18.4	isolation, loneliness, deaths of despair, you know, you find people on the left worrying about the demise of
1:26.8	democracy and all kinds of things and yet we don't think to look for cohesion and
1:31.8	unity at the very core of our political life, which is in the US Constitution.
1:38.0	And what stands out to me about the Constitution, I'm not a lawyer. I'm a political scientist and a citizen and what stands out to me about the
1:46.2	Constitution is that it was created to unify a divided society and it could very much still do that for us. So I think this is a perfect time to become
1:56.2	reacquainted with the American Constitution, which is really my purpose in this book.
2:00.5	And you know we've had Patrick Danine on the show we've had other people who sort of find
2:04.9	themselves in agreement with his diagnosis which apparently might even include former
2:10.3	President Barack Obama who included why liberalism failed on his reading list at one point in time.
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