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Uncommon Knowledge

The Importance of Institutions, with Yuval Levin

Uncommon Knowledge

Hoover Institution

Politics, History, News:politics, Science, News

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We as a society must recommit to rebuilding and maintaining the institutions that provided the foundation for American society for 200 years.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.

0:11.2

Born in Israel, Yvalovin, moved to the United States with his family when he was eight.

0:16.3

Now director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

0:21.9

Yval served on the domestic policy staff in the White House of

0:24.8

George W Bush.

0:27.0

Yevall Levin's most recent book, A Time to Build, from Family and Community to Congress and the campus, how recommitting to our

0:35.3

institutions can revive the American dream. You've all welcome. Thank you very

0:40.6

much. The economy is strong.

0:43.0

We have rising household income and the lowest levels of unemployment in decades,

0:47.0

and we're not engaged in any shooting wars anywhere on earth.

0:50.0

There is a pretty good argument to be made that this is a good time.

0:55.0

And here's the way you open a time to build.

0:58.7

Two decades ago, at the turn of the millennium, many Americans had a sense that we were living at the dawn of a new age.

1:05.3

By now, it has become unavoidable evident that our country has experienced the beginning of this

1:11.5

new millennium less as a dawn than as a twilight age.

1:17.0

If things are so good, how come they're so bad?

1:20.0

Yeah, this is the question that really started me on the path to this book,

1:23.2

and it's the question that the book opens with, which is if you look at some of the

1:26.2

familiar measures of well-being, how's the economy doing, or people healthy, or people safe?

1:31.4

By all those measures, this is a great time and yet if you look at

1:35.9

how people feel about this moment and if you look at the nature of our

1:39.6

politics if you look at the polarization and dysfunction we're living through if you look at

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