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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Everyone, please be seated. Good evening and thanks to Justice Ginsburg for joining us tonight. Record,oking at your Justice Ginsburg, and i noticed you have had a lot of name changes over the years. You went by ruth. Then you became professor ginsb finallyge ginsburg, and Justice Ginsburg. You have this new moniker of rbg. Can i just call you Justice Ginsburg . You can call me ruth. Georgetown law school, i know these are two institutions of which you have had long association. You are here tonight to 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. Your career has focused on equality more broadly. You said he wished your mother could have lived in an age when mothers good is and achieve and daughters were treated equally to sons. And cherished. What do you imagine your mother would have been or done had she lived in such an age . Is it true that she marched on behalf of the 19th amendment . Whens, my mother was 18 the 19th amendment became part of the constitution. 16, she took15 and part in