Name Yuval Levin | Role Journalist | |
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Notable work The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Left and Right (2013) Books The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left Education | ||
Yuval levin on the great debate
Yuval Levin is an American political analyst, public intellectual, academic, and journalist. He is the founding editor of National Affairs, and the author of four books.
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- Yuval levin on the great debate
- The terrible disaster of the welfare state yuval levin on the american mind with charles r kesler
- Early life and education
- Career
- Works
- References
The terrible disaster of the welfare state yuval levin on the american mind with charles r kesler
Early life and education
Levin was born in Haifa, Israel, and moved to the United States with his family at the age of eight. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science at American University, and earned a PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Career
Levin is the founding editor of National Affairs. He 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.
Levin is the author of four books, 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."
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."
Levin has been called "probably the most influential conservative intellectual of the Obama era", while The New Republic has dubbed Levin "the right's new Irving Kristol".