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How to Restore Trust in America’s Institutions

April 28, 2020

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Why has trust in America’s political, civic, media, and social institutions declined? And how is this collapse in trust related to America’s current state of political polarization? Join leading conservative intellectual Yuval Levin during an online America's Town Hall program as he explores the answers to these questions and a path forward as described in his new book, A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.


Participants

  • Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. Levin is the founding and current editor of National Affairs, a senior editor of The New Atlantis, and a contributing editor to National Review. He is the author of several books on political theory and public policy, including A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream.
     
  • Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
     

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