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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 (Hardcover)
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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 (Hardcover)
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Americans are living through a social crisis. Populist firebrands -
on left and right alike - propose to address the crisis through
acts of tearing down. They describe themselves as destroying
oppressive establishments, clearing weeds, draining swamps. But, as
acclaimed conservative intellectual Yuval Levin argues, this is a
misguided prescription, rooted in a defective diagnosis. The social
crisis we confront is defined not by an oppressive presence but by
a debilitating absence of forces that unite us and militate against
alienation. Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly respond
to crisis by threatening to dismantle institutions that they
perceive as belonging to their political opponents. Both sides have
turned "institution" into a pejorative. Levin argues that this is
misguided - this is not a time to tear down, he says, but rather to
build and rebuild by committing ourselves to the institutions
around us and strengthening their capacity to shape and unite us.
Institutions - from the military to churches to families and
universities - give us the forms we require to be free. They give
us a sense of community, shared identity and a sense of belonging
to something greater than ourselves. What we perceive as a social
crisis, Levin argues, is really an institutional crisis. By
rebuilding and restoring collective trust in our institutions, we
rebuild and restore trust in society.
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