Yuval Levin

These, to my mind, do not seem like serious arguments, but they need to be answered because they are out there. It's a reason why it's necessary now to remind people of the argument for the American system. It's an argument that begins from the premise that we're not always going to agree in our country, and we need a system that allows us to act together even when we don't all think alike.

These, to my mind, do not seem like serious arguments, but they need to be answered because they are out there. It's a reason why it's necessary now to remind people of the argument for the American system. It's an argument that begins from the premise that we're not always going to agree in our country, and we need a system that allows us to act together even when we don't all think alike.

and that that system is what our Constitution provides. And throwing away this system is extremely dangerous to the fundamental rights that we all think are most important. That's an argument that I have to make to younger people now.

and that that system is what our Constitution provides. And throwing away this system is extremely dangerous to the fundamental rights that we all think are most important. That's an argument that I have to make to younger people now.

I think it's always important to make that argument, but it's certainly under assault in a way that's different from at least what I experienced on the right 15 and 20 years ago. I think that's a good place to end. Always our final question.

I think it's always important to make that argument, but it's certainly under assault in a way that's different from at least what I experienced on the right 15 and 20 years ago. I think that's a good place to end. Always our final question.

So three books these days, you know, I think about this in terms of how to think more clearly about the situation we're in. So one book that comes to mind for me is a book called The Rhetorical Presidency written by a political scientist named Jeffrey Toulas back in 1987.

So three books these days, you know, I think about this in terms of how to think more clearly about the situation we're in. So one book that comes to mind for me is a book called The Rhetorical Presidency written by a political scientist named Jeffrey Toulas back in 1987.

It's a book that I've just kept coming back to in recent years and really offers a very profound way to understand the evolution of the presidency. A second book is about Congress. It's a book by Philip Wallach, a colleague of mine at the American Enterprise Institute, published just a couple years ago. It's called Why Congress?

It's a book that I've just kept coming back to in recent years and really offers a very profound way to understand the evolution of the presidency. A second book is about Congress. It's a book by Philip Wallach, a colleague of mine at the American Enterprise Institute, published just a couple years ago. It's called Why Congress?

and is really a wonderful argument about the reasons for the centrality of the national legislature and our national politics. I think it's a book that every member and staffer should read, but that a lot of Americans should read just to understand the logic of why Article I is Article I in the American Constitution.

and is really a wonderful argument about the reasons for the centrality of the national legislature and our national politics. I think it's a book that every member and staffer should read, but that a lot of Americans should read just to understand the logic of why Article I is Article I in the American Constitution.

A third book that comes to mind is a recent book just published at the end of last year by Christine Rosen called The Extinction of Experience, which is really about the ways in which modern technology has changed the basics of everyday human experience.

A third book that comes to mind is a recent book just published at the end of last year by Christine Rosen called The Extinction of Experience, which is really about the ways in which modern technology has changed the basics of everyday human experience.

The kinds of things that when you first encounter them, they seem like familiar cliches of our time, but when you think them through and see them in some historical context, and Christine Rosen is a historian, you really see how and why our culture has taken some of the peculiar turns that it's taken and why modern life can be so confusing and bizarre.

The kinds of things that when you first encounter them, they seem like familiar cliches of our time, but when you think them through and see them in some historical context, and Christine Rosen is a historian, you really see how and why our culture has taken some of the peculiar turns that it's taken and why modern life can be so confusing and bizarre.

I think together these three books are just a way to think about this moment with a little bit of perspective, which can certainly help in a time that seems like it's out of control. Yuval Levin, thank you very much. Thanks so much, Ezra.

I think together these three books are just a way to think about this moment with a little bit of perspective, which can certainly help in a time that seems like it's out of control. Yuval Levin, thank you very much. Thanks so much, Ezra.