Yuval Levin
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Essential Reading on the Constitution September 17, 2024
As Constitution Day falls on September 17, we are in the midst of an historically divisive election season. The gaps between Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservative have never seemed wider – and many Americans even feel alienated from th...
The Latent Wisdom in Our Constitution June 13, 2024
“The Constitution is dead! Long live the—” Well, there things get more difficult. The death of the Constitution seems to be an increasingly popular rallying cry among online types. The left abandoned the Constitution long ago and practices a very dif...
A Roadmap—If We Want It June 12, 2024
In the course of my work examining the original meaning of the Second Amendment, I have often had cause to sift through some of the great legal textbooks of the past. Among these, I count such efforts as A View of the Constitution of the United State...
Institutional Fixism June 12, 2020
Imagine a soccer field, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks suggested in his 2011 book The Great Partnership, perched at the top of a steep mountain, open in all directions.The players would run and kick gingerly, especially as they approached the edges of the...
Building Institutions That Last January 23, 2020
On November 15, 2019, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Following a smear campaign, Yovanovitch had been booted from her post. The president had described her as...
A Good Year for Bookworms December 18, 2019
My reading all year has been framed by Robert Alter’s magisterial new(ish) translation of (and commentary on) the entire Old Testament, which I’ve been crawling through between reading other books. It’s the product of decades of work, some of it publ...
Great Books in a Digital Age? July 06, 2018
Ours is a time of institutional crisis. It is our institutions that are in crisis, and because they dominate and define our public order, it is our institutions that have plunged us into crisis. While a host of reasons might be summoned to explain ho...
