Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Yvall Levin.

Yvall is a political theorist author and public intellectual known for his work on constitutionalism,

civil society, and the structure of American political institutions. He's the editor of

National Affairs, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of many

influential books, including The Fractured Republic and A Time to Build. In this episode,

we talk about the differences between liberals and conservatives, both philosophically and

psychologically. We talk about the Trump administration's heavy-handed approach to higher education reform.

We talk about the difference between conservatism and right-wing populism.

We talk about the decline of religion in American life, and much more.

So without further ado, Yvall Levin.

Thank you. So without further ado, Yvall Levin. Okay, Yovall Levin, thanks so much for coming on my show.

Thank you very much for having me.

So I want to give my readers a sense of who you are, what your background is before we get into some of the questions that I want to ask you.

So how did you start being interested in politics and coming to study the Constitution, the importance of institutions, liberalism, all the various political philosophy topics you studied?

Yeah, it's a big question.

And I'd say I don't have an immediately obvious answer to it.

I started being interested in politics very young.

I was interested in politics by the time I was a high school student.

But I thought that I was interested in practical electoral politics. I went to college in Washington

and worked on Capitol Hill as a student. And in the course of that really came to the view

that I was more interested in the ideas that underlie politics and something like the

intersection of political theory and public policy. I ended up taking more and more of an interest in that.

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