Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin

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Yuval Levin discusses Edmund Burke at the American Enterprise Institute event, Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing, 1 October 2015
Born 1977 (age 38–39)
Haifa, Israel
Education BA, American University
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Notable work The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Left and Right (2013)

Yuval Levin is an American political analyst, public intellectual, academic and journalist who is the founding Editor of National Affairs. He has been called "probably the most influential conservative intellectual of the Obama era",[1] while The New Republic has dubbed Levin "the right's new Irving Kristol."[2] Levin is also a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. In 2005 and 2006, he was a member of the White House domestic policy staff. He is the former chief of staff of the President's Council on Bioethics, a former Congressional staffer, contributing editor to National Review and the Weekly Standard, and one of the founders of The New Atlantis, where he still remains as a Senior Editor.

He is the author of Tyranny of Reason: The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook (ISBN 9780761818724), Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy (ISBN 9781594032097), The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left (ISBN 9780465050970), The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism (ISBN 9780465061969), and of numerous essays and articles dealing largely with political theory, science, technology, and public policy. On the relationship between political theory and public policy, Levin has said:

"For me, these things are very deeply connected. I think politics really is rooted in political philosophy, is much better understood when it’s understood in light of political philosophy. And that a lot of the policy debates we have make much more sense if you see that people are arguing about two ways of understanding what the human person is, what human society is, and especially what the liberal society is. The left and right in our country are both liberal, they both believe in the free society, but they mean something very different by that."[3]

Conservatism, Levin has said, "understands society not as just individuals and government, but thinks of it in terms of everything that happens in between. That huge space between the individual and the state is where society actually is. And that’s where families are, it’s where communities are, it’s where the market economy is." [4]

Levin was trained in political science at American University and earned a PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

References

  1. ↑ Chait, Jonathan. "The Facts Are In and Paul Ryan Is Wrong". New York. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  2. ↑ Tracy, Mark. "Baby Kristol: Yuval Levin is the right's new favorite intellectual". www.thenewrepublic.com. The New Republic. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Levin, Yuval. "Conversations with Bill Kristol". Conversations with Bill Kristol. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  4. ↑ http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/yuval-levin-transcript/
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