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Carregando... A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dreamde Yuval Levin
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"Americans are living through a social crisis. Populist firebrands -- on left and right alike -- propose to address the crisis through acts of tearing down. They describe themselves as destroying oppressive establishments, clearing weeds, draining swamps. But, as acclaimed conservative intellectual 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, but by a debilitating absence of forces that unite us and militate against alienation"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)306.0973Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Biography And History North America United StatesClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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I find his observations astute, especially his notes on the evolution of our congressional and executive leadership and his points regarding the problems with our Elite(that whole chapter was beautiful). I also appreciated how he addressed the college campus issues, the idea of "forms," performativity, and the problem with "celebrity" culture and social media. His illustration of the Right/Left flip of implementation and enforcement/less regulations was worth the time. And my favorite parts were his constant illustrations of the need for both sides and viewpoints--particularly his take on the issues of race and elitism.
Finally, I thought his points about the side-effects of partisanship, the changes made in journalism, and social media on our policy-making were correct, at least in my own life. He states, and I included the quote, that when we make policy in panic-mode it is ineffective. I would agree. It, too often, invites irrationality to the table.
Several things that I thought could have been improved:
--More stats. There were several times when I was incredibly fascinated with an interesting claim and there was no citation. Particularly when the statements hit closer to home.
-- Less words. Mr. Levin has a set of decent ideas, but they are hidden in long paragraphs that could use some paring down. It really felt like a 60 page thesis that was elongated for a book format. ( )