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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
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92/100Author:
Yuval Levin
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
January 21, 2020
The editor of the conservative publication National Affairs argues that the social crisis Americans confront is defined by a debilitating absence of forces that unite us and militate against alienation.
What The Reviewers Say
Why this lassitude? The right blames a collapse of religion and family and traditional morality; the left blames widening economic inequality. Mr. Levin’s answer is at once simpler, more generous and more cogent.
At a time when so many religious institutions are seen as hypocritical and corrupt, making a wholehearted, quasi-religious investment in secular institutions is a tall order. But Levin is undaunted.
The modesty of Levin’s proposals feels both refreshing and anticlimactic, and liberals are likely to find him too dismissive of the inequities that exist within institutions. Mainstream Republicans dismayed by the current state of their party, however, will savor this well-reasoned and hopeful study..
A provocative, inspiring look at the underlying cause of our polarization and dysfunction..
