{"id":7203,"date":"2017-07-28T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2017-07-28T14:11:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T19:11:45","slug":"the-fractured-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7203","title":{"rendered":"THE FRACTURED REPUBLIC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yuval Levin writes wise, thoughtful, and accessible books. His previous book, The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left<\/em>, was terrific. And as I said in its review, it is not just for \u201cpolitical junkies.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fractured Republic: Renewing America\u2019s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism<\/em> can stand on its own, but I would recommend reading The Great Debate<\/em> as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fractured Republic<\/em> is refreshing. Levin is a conservative, but that does not keep him from correcting his conservative kin, especially on fueling an expressive individualism that is just as toxic as those on the Left. \u00a0Levin believes that conservatives who appreciate the importance of \u201cmediating institutions\u201d like families, communities, and religious groups, is where promise for a better political climate moving forward resides.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Levin rightly sees both conservatives and liberals falling prey to nostalgia, a longing for a bygone era where things were so much better than the present. Both sides need to disabuse themselves of nostalgia in order to see their way forward in making wise decisions in a culture that is different from the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fractured-Republic-Renewing-America%C2%92s-Individualism\/dp\/0465061966   Yuval Levin writes wise, thoughtful, and accessible books. His previous book, The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left, was terrific. And as I said in its review, it is not just for \u201cpolitical junkies.\u201d The Fractured Republic: Renewing America\u2019s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7205,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions\/7205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}