Political analyst Yuval Levin, author of American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again, and scholar Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them, discuss the Constitution as America’s religion and its role in fostering the American dream. Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
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Yuval Levin is a senior fellow and 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. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of National Affairs, a senior editor at The New Atlantis, a contributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. His most recent book, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again, was published in April 2024.
Aziz Rana is a professor and Provost’s Distinguished Fellow at Boston College Law School and the incoming J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government. He is an editorial board member of Dissent, The Law and Political Economy Blog, and Just Security. He is also a Life Member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His most recent book, which we are also discussing today, is The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them, published in June 2024.
Additional Resources:
- Yuval Levin, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again, (2024)
- Aziz Rana, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them (2024)
- “The Modern History of Originalism,” We the People Podcast (Aug. 3, 2023)
- Article V, Interactive Constitution
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