A time to build : from family and community to Congress and the campus, how recommitting to our institutions can revive the American dream /
Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics are polarized and bitterly divided and culture wars rage across the country. Left and right alike have blamed our institutions and use only metaphors of destruction to describe the path forward: cancelling, defunding, draining the swamp. But...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2023].
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| Summary: | Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics are polarized and bitterly divided and culture wars rage across the country. Left and right alike have blamed our institutions and use only metaphors of destruction to describe the path forward: cancelling, defunding, draining the swamp. But, as 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 by a debilitating absence of the forces that unite us. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in 2020 ; updated edition with a new epilogue. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 251 pages : portrait ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1541604415 9781541604414 |