Yuval Levin on The Fractured Republic

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🗓️ 4 July 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Yuval Levin, author and editor of National Affairs, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his latest book, The Fractured Republic. Levin argues that both major political parties suffer from a misplaced nostalgia--a yearning for a time when things were better even though the policies that created those good times are no longer as relevant to today. Levin argues for a strengthening of the intermediate institutions--institutions between the individual and the government such as religious communities and other non-profits as a way toward a better life for Americans.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:34.4	Today's June 16, 2016, and my guest is Yuval Levin.
0:38.9	He is the editor of National Affairs in the Hurtog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy
0:43.6	Center.
0:44.6	His latest book and the subject of today's episode is The Fractured Republic, renewing America's
0:50.7	social contract in the age of individualism.
0:53.6	Yuval, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:56.0	Thank you very much for having me.
0:57.4	This is an ambitious book that tries to analyze where America has been, where it is now,
1:04.1	and where it might be going.
1:05.1	I found it very thought-provoking.
1:07.7	Let's start with where America is now.
1:10.0	You argue that books, Republicans, and Democrats suffer from an nostalgia for the past.
1:15.3	Explain.
1:16.3	Well, that's right.
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