A strong showing for former Vice President joe biden in a pivotal. So far hes won 3 states including the biggest prize of the night michigan will the results be a knockout blow to rival Bernie Sanders. President for life or something close to it russias parliament backsliding your putins plans to change the constitution so he can stay in power until 2036. Next spicer welcome to the program. The number of coronavirus cases in europes worst affected country italy has surged above 10000 the country has recorded more than 630 deaths italys neighbors have started tightening their borders and an increasing number of countries have stopped flights to and from italy the entire country has been placed on lockdown. On lockdown its streets on obscured by the usual hordes of 2 lists. The shutters came down at 6 pm as bars and restaurants closed in accordance with new measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus the message is simple stay at home its advice italians are taking seriously after the
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Dysfunctions. In one arena after another of our National Life we face the challenge of drawing alienated people back into our institutions. We can point to all kinds of complicated theories about how to build the trust thats required, but the simplest way is for the people who inhabit our institutions, for all of us, to try to be more trustworthy and what each can work at that. We can give her institutional responsibilities more of our time and effort. We can give them more of identity and selfconsciousness. We can understand ourselves as defined by those institutions that matter most in her own lies. We can judge ourselves by their standards, hold ourselves up to their ideals and take seriously the forms of integrity and we can work to reform them where theyre failing to help them work better and be more worthy of trust and confidence. We can yearn not for the foremost autonomy of the event contractor but for the rudeness and responsibility of the member and the partner and the worker
Levin. I want to thank you all for coming to politics and prose im preventing humor week hosts closer thousand events. Year. Something that is confirmed for the next three months you can go ahead and visit our website or pick up our events calendar. Before i get started today are like tosk ask everyone to silence yourur cell phones, so as not to disrupt the event. And when its time for the q a i would ask you to come up to this microphone right here, next to the pillar, and please speak clearly into the microphone as we areec recording it and cspan book tv is here as well. On the q and a we will have a signing. This table if you havent already purchased this book will have the books up at the register. So tonight i am excited to welcome yuval levin celebrating his newest book, a time to build. How we commit to institutions as nations have increased divisiveness, fueled by partisan politics, culture wars, and populist anger on both sides. Yuval levin says instead of trying to tear down
The pillar and please speak clearly into the microphone as we are recording it today and cspan, booktv is here as well. Following q a we will have assigning here at this table. If you havent already purchased your books we have plenty at the front of the store at the registers. Tonight am very excited to welcome yuval levin to politics pros celebrating his newest book a time to build. From family and community to congress and the campus how recommitting to our institutions can revive the american dream. As the nation faces increasing divisiveness fueled by artisan politics culture wars and populace on both sides levine argues that rather than trying to tear down existing institutional frameworks we should be looking to them as sources of strength and support. Through a time to build he shows her Current Crisis isnt completely due to the presence of an oppressive force but to the absence of uniting forces and here to commit ourselves to renewing the vitality of institutions ranging from