{"id":300,"date":"2020-10-14T18:05:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T18:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/?post_type=furman-event&#038;p=300"},"modified":"2021-01-08T17:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:42:45","slug":"why-institutions-matter-2021-02-23","status":"publish","type":"furman-event","link":"https:\/\/furman.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_H5b3eSoDTw2Khhyrpzi-Hw","title":{"rendered":"Why Institutions Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuval Levin is director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).\u00a0 He also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy.\u00a0 The founding and current editor of the journal <em>National Affairs<\/em>, he is also a senior editor of <em>The New Atlantis<\/em> and a contributing editor to <em>National Review<\/em>. He served as a member of the White House domestic policy staff under President George W. Bush. He was also executive director of the President\u2019s Council on Bioethics and a congressional staffer at the member, committee, and leadership levels.\u00a0 He has published essays and articles in numerous publications, including <em>The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, <\/em>and<em> Commentary<\/em>. He is the author of several books on political theory and public policy, including <em>A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream<\/em>; <em>The Fractured Republic: Renewing America\u2019s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism<\/em>; and <em>The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left<\/em>.\u00a0 He holds a B.A. from American University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuval Levin is director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).\u00a0 He also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy.\u00a0 The founding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":160,"template":"","event-categories":[],"class_list":["post-300","furman-event","type-furman-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"predefined_location":"","location_name":"","location_street_address":"","location_address_locality":"","location_address_region":"","location_postal_code":"","link_text":"Click here to register for the virtual event.","link_css":"","event_start_date":"2021-02-23","event_end_date":"2021-02-23","event_all_day":"","event_start_time":"17:00","event_end_time":"18:30","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}