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This is honestly. And today more than 93,000 people died of drug overdoses in

2020. What have I told you that everything that's broken in American life.

That's the highest number ever recorded and a 29% increase from the year before.

From increased rates in suicide and addiction.

For the past six years, the CDC reports birth rates across the country. and rates in marriage and sex. As US population growth slows to a crawl fewer

Americans are making their way down the aisle. To the crisis of faith we're

having in everything from the CDC to our political leaders to democratic elections.

This is the end of democracy in America.

What if all of these weren't a series of separate catastrophes,

but actually symptoms of a single underlying condition.

Well that's the argument of my guest today.

Yval Levin.

Yval is a journalist and an academic.

He has served as a congressional staffer and also as a

staff member under President George W Bush. He's also the author of several

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