tenth grade biology class, co2, co2, hmm, don t trees consume co2 for photosynthesis? quick google check. how about we plant a whole lot more trees across the country and across the world? that seems like a natural solution with lots of upside, trees are beautiful, and might help fight global warming. oh, but no, there is a problem with that idea. planting more trees might help solve climate change, but it definitely will not enrich your donors. trees are cheap. it is hard to make money from trees. worse than that, trees are impossible to regulate. once you plant trees, they grow by themselves, they do not need federal help. trees definitely will not make you more powerful, so instead, here is an idea, let s invest trillions of dollars of other people s money in batteries and wind farms and electric school buses. that way democratic politicians get fingertip control over the entire u.s. economy and all of their friends get rich. sounds perfect. let s go with that idea. that i
Make our way to where we want be. Good afternoon. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin v, and its my pleasure to welcome you to this discussion of timken this wonderful and important new book family how our culture made raising kids much harder than it needs to. Tim is a senior fellow here at aei and a columnist at the washington examiner. His work is a lot of us know he focuses on family and on civil society, on religion, american politics. Hes published widely beyond his columns, too, in the new york times, the wall street journal, the Washington Post, the atlantic and elsewhere. You see on tv a lot. Tims work is unique. He describes broad social trends by beginning from the experience of real people. He thinks from the bottom up, not from the top down. And for that reason, i think he has an understanding of how people thrive and how people fail. What holds together, what divides us. That is just deeply humane and sympathetic, even as its always rooted in some
Make our way to where we want be. Good afternoon. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin v, and its my pleasure to welcome you to this discussion of timken this wonderful and important new book family how our culture made raising kids much harder than it needs to. Tim is a senior fellow here at aei and a columnist at the washington examiner. His work is a lot of us know he focuses on family and on civil society, on religion, american politics. Hes published widely beyond his columns, too, in the new york times, the wall street journal, the Washington Post, the atlantic and elsewhere. You see on tv a lot. Tims work is unique. He describes broad social trends by beginning from the experience of real people. He thinks from the bottom up, not from the top down. And for that reason, i think he has an understanding of how people thrive and how people fail. What holds together, what divides us. That is just deeply humane and sympathetic, even as its always rooted in some
Make our way to where we want be. Good afternoon. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin v, and its my pleasure to welcome you to this discussion of timken this wonderful and important new book family how our culture made raising kids much harder than it needs to. Tim is a senior fellow here at aei and a columnist at the washington examiner. His work is a lot of us know he focuses on family and on civil society, on religion, american politics. Hes published widely beyond his columns, too, in the new york times, the wall street journal, the Washington Post, the atlantic and elsewhere. You see on tv a lot. Tims work is unique. He describes broad social trends by beginning from the experience of real people. He thinks from the bottom up, not from the top down. And for that reason, i think he has an understanding of how people thrive and how people fail. What holds together, what divides us. That is just deeply humane and sympathetic, even as its always rooted in some
Family how our culture made raising kids much harder than it needs to. Tim is a senior fellow here at aei and a columnist at the washington examiner. His work is a lot of us know he focuses on family and on civil society, on religion, american politics. Hes published widely beyond his columns, too, in the new york times, the wall street journal, the Washington Post, the atlantic and elsewhere. You see on tv a lot. Tims work is unique. He describes broad social trends by beginning from the experience of real people. He thinks from the bottom up, not from the top down. And for that reason, i think he has an understanding of how people thrive and how people fail. What holds together, what divides us. That is just deeply humane and sympathetic, even as its always rooted in some moral fundamentals. His goal really is to prove your grandmother was right. If you want to be happy, you should get married. You have kids, you should go to church. You should show up for your neighbors. You should