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The great debate, the fractured republic and a time to build. This is two hours. Host author yuval levin, what is your assessment of the United States . Guest thanks for having me here. That is a wonderfully broad question to open within a challenging one. They are living in a moment of crisis. It is hard to deny. We have been through a spring dominated by a Public Health crisis. We are facing now also a social crisis and the struggle for racial the quality and very much of this moment that forces us to confront challenges that weve had trouble with in recent yea years. In th a time of crisis, you kno, its because it is the time of testing its also the time to think about what americas strengths are, what they are good at as a country and how we can build on that address the enormous problems in front of us. Host how did we get here . This is that an era marked by crises from 9 11 to the financial crisis to a pandemic that forces us to look to the sources of restraint what the politics
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And for human equality. But the notice was very much at this moment. Enforces to confront challenges in our society that weve had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions are going to prove to be. How we are going to rise to the challenge like this. I think you cant help but to see it as a time of crisis. Because it is a time of testing is also time for us to think about what americas strengths are and what were good at is a country and how we can build on that to confront these enormous problems. See 500 we get there. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality of individuals in one hand and some form of strength of community on the other. Every free Society Faces that in our society think is in the past halfcentury really emphasize the individual. Yuval emphasize liberty and freedom. And also diversity. That is brought some enormous advances and benefits. But there is another side to the coin.
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