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The Ezra Klein Show
In two episodes, the guests highlighted the book as a proposed answer to current political polarization, emphasizing its claim that the Constitution once unified the nation and could do so again. Spencer Cox referenced it as a follow‑up to Levin’s earlier work, while Ezra Klein described the author’s background and the book’s central thesis. Both speakers presented it as a constructive framework for restoring national cohesion, indicating strong endorsement.
Episode: Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From t...
Cox noted American Covenant as Levin's latest book, framing it as an answer to A Time to Build about the Constitution solving polarization.
American Covenant was his latest one, which is kind of the answer to A Time to Build. American Covenant is about the Constitution and how it can solve this polarization that we're in right now.
Episode: The Breaking of the Constitutional Order
Levin's book examined how the Constitution once unified the nation and argued it could do so again.
Levin is a director of the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies program at the American Enterprise Institute. And he's the author of the book, American Covenant, How the Constitution Unified Our Nation and Could Again.
