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Assessing the pope’s approach toward AI
Yuval Levin responds to the pope’s major statement about the impact of artificial intelligence. Since the beginning of his papacy a year ago, Pope Leo XIV has held out the…
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Justice Thomas’ take on America’s 250th birthday
Yuval Levin assesses US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ recent Texas speech honoring America’s milestone birthday. Thomas criticizes the counter-constitutional ideas of some of the original progressives, particularly as embodied…
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Young men adrift: looking beneath the surface
A new survey from the Institute for Family Studies asks why so many young men are adrift, disconnected and disengaged from today’s world. The study, conducted by YouGov between April…
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Nationalizing elections is still a bad idea
Yuval Levin explains why concentrating election administration in Washington, D.C., would be a bad idea. When Joe Biden entered office with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress in 2021,…
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Treating America’s 250th anniversary as more than birthday
Yuval Levin outlines concerns about vague descriptions of the nation’s 250th anniversary. On December 31, The Washington Post carried the headline “Washington Monument illuminated on New Year’s Eve to mark country’s 250th.” The…
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Trump’s first year not as active as it might seem
Yuval Levin takes stock of President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House. I think that a year in, you’re hearing two kinds of stories. So one story…
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Republicans continue to get sucked into health care battles
Yuval Levin tackles a topic that continues to perplex Republicans. Sometimes in politics, you win not by changing the world but by changing the subject. That’s how the Democrats won…
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Federal spending levels haven’t changed much under Trump
Yuval Levin looks beyond rhetoric to examine facts about federal government spending. The most striking thing about general spending patterns in the second Trump administration so far is how much…
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Using the Constitution to unite rather than divide
Yuval Levin discusses the U.S. Constitution as a unifying force. First of all, to see that the Constitution is concerned with unity is to take notice of a particular understanding…
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More disagreement would improve our political divide
Yuval Levin argues that Americans need more frequent political disagreements to help address the nation’s sharp partisan divisions. Americans are divided, but not in the way most people imagine. When…
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President’s growing power has consequences for statesmanship
Yuval Levin explores the impact of the growing power in the office of the presidency. The story of modern American government is a tale of ever-growing presidential power. For well…
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Republicans’ approach to debt labeled ‘delusion’
Yuval Levin explores leading Republicans’ troubling approach toward the federal debt. If you listen to how Republicans in Washington talk about federal spending these days, you might imagine that we…