the classical education education humanities program she s the author of three books given the devil his due, which received a 2018 christianity today book of the year award. she is the author walker persky in the search for influence in reading walker percy novels, she received the humidities from the dallas institute of humanities and culture. she is a coeditor of the volume in american culture the russians on the west and a collection of essays on the legacy of alexander, i read this book or at least many of the essays, it is excellent i highly recommend it. she s very prolific shows a couple of other .some of his ideas down and give us a sense of what brought you here today, as you re doing that i m going to surmise a few reasons i would anticipate that would bring you here today some things that are weighing on my heart, questions that i have and fears that i have that led me too turn and consider the ways that he might be helpful for us in his cultural moment. do we wo
the classical education education humanities program she s the author of three books given the devil his due, which received a 2018 christianity today book of the year award. she is the author walker persky in the search for influence in reading walker percy novels, she received the humidities from the dallas institute of humanities and culture. she is a coeditor of the volume in american culture the russians on the west and a collection of essays on the legacy of alexander, i read this book or at least many of the essays, it is excellent i highly recommend it. she s very prolific shows a couple of other .some of his ideas down and give us a sense of what brought you here today, as you re doing that i m going to surmise a few reasons i would anticipate that would bring you here today some things that are weighing on my heart, questions that i have and fears that i have that led me too turn and consider the ways that he might be helpful for us in his cultural moment. do we wo
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 we ve had trouble with in recent yea years. in th a time of crisis, you kno, it s because it is the time of testing its also the time to think about what america s 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 res
i view today a political system to groups basically the same the same side of the coin. i think we would be better to invest ourselves and invest ourselves of all political parties in the united states. i don t elect someone for their views. i don t think they represent me. nobody in the state of oregon represents me. they represent themselves. i think there s a level of frustration there. ultimately i disagree. there can be differences in society about how to perceive and govern ourselves. and we have to ask ourselves how do we make decisions. what we head in our country is a system for legitimate sizing those kind of decision-making. allowing people of different views to be heard and for allowing the views of the majority to ultimately be advanced. is the purpose of the system and very often that is what the system achieves. i think there are going to be contradictions and paradoxes and problems that don t go
and for human equality. but the notice was very much at this moment. enforces to confront challenges in our society that we ve 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 can t 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 america s 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 half-century really emphasize the individual. yuval: emphasize liberty and freedom. and also diversity. that is brought some enormous advances and benefits. but there is another s