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A Time to Build From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream

Yuval Levin

A leading conservative intellectual argues that to renew America we must recommit to our institutions Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life. And for t...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Cox recommended A Time to Build, describing it as a rehash of the discussion on rebuilding political culture.

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The first one is called A Time to Build. It's really a rehash of almost everything we've talked about today.

— Episode: Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics B...

Episode: Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From t...

Cox recommended A Time to Build, describing it as a rehash of the discussion on rebuilding political culture.

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The first one is called A Time to Build. It's really a rehash of almost everything we've talked about today.

Episode: An Appalled Republican Considers the Future of the...

Ezra highlighted Levin's most recent book and said he highly recommended it for understanding institutional reform.

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Yuval ... author of a bunch of great books, but most recently, A Time to Build, which I highly recommend.

The Ben Shapiro Show

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The Ben Shapiro Show

The book discussed the shift in politics where individuals use institutions as platforms for personal exposure rather than being shaped by the institutions themselves. It emphasized that this shift contributes to the breakdown in politics and public dissatisfaction with politicians.

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Yvonne Levin, really good thinker over the American Enterprise Institute, he had a book recently called The Time to Build.

— Episode: Ep. 1570 - The Age Of AOC

Episode: Ep. 1570 - The Age Of AOC

The book discussed the shift in politics where individuals use institutions as platforms for personal exposure rather than being shaped by the institutions themselves. It emphasized that this shift contributes to the breakdown in politics and public dissatisfaction with politicians.

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Yvonne Levin, really good thinker over the American Enterprise Institute, he had a book recently called The Time to Build.

And he talked about how politics had basically shifted from a place where institutions shape the people who are instituted. If you went into Congress, Congress shaped you. You had to work within the boundaries of Congress to get things done.

Here's what Yvonne Levin writes in his book, A Time to Build, because I think it's super relevant.

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