{"id":1901,"date":"2014-01-25T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/01\/25\/former-white-house-staffer-speaks-jan-29\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:41:41","slug":"former-white-house-staffer-speaks-jan-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/former-white-house-staffer-speaks-jan-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Former White House Staffer Speaks Jan. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Levins-book21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9667 lazyload\" alt=\"Levins-book2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Levins-book21.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/227;\" \/><\/a>Former presidential and congressional staffer Dr. Yuval Levin opens Furman University\u2019s 2014 Tocqueville Program with a talk on Wednesday, Jan. 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Watkins Room of Trone Student Center on the Furman University campus.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Levin\u2019s talk, &#8220;Like the Leaves of Sybil: Burke and Tocqueville on Tradition in the Democratic Age,&#8221; is free and open to the public. His lecture is the first of the four-part Tocqueville series, \u201cTocqueville and the American Republic.\u201d All lectures in the series are part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program.<\/p>\n<p>Levin is the Hertog Fellow at Washington, D.C.-based Ethics and Public Policy Center. His areas of specialty include health care, entitlement reform, economic and domestic policy, science and technology policy, political philosophy, and bioethics.<\/p>\n<p>Levin&#8217;s essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications including the\u00a0New York Times, the\u00a0Washington Post, and the\u00a0Wall Street Journal. He is a contributing editor for\u00a0National Review\u00a0and author of several books including\u00a0<i>Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy<\/i>, and, most recently,\u00a0<i>The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Left and Right<\/i>. Levin is also the founding editor of National Affairs\u00a0magazine and a senior editor of EPPC&#8217;s journal\u00a0The New Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining EPPC, he served on the White House domestic policy staff under President George W. Bush. His work focused on health care as well as bioethics and culture-of-life issues. Previously he served as executive director of the President&#8217;s Council on Bioethics, and as a congressional staffer. Levin holds a bachelor\u2019s from American University and a doctorate from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming Tocqueville lectures include:<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday, Feb. 12 <\/b>\u2013 John Koritansky, \u201cTocqueville on Civil Religion in America,\u201d 4:30 p.m., Watkins Room, Trone Student Center<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday, Feb. 26<\/b> \u2013 Christine Henderson, \u201cProgress and Paradox in Tocqueville\u2019s Memoir on Pauperism,\u201d 4:30 p.m., Watkins Room, Trone Student Center<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday, April 2<\/b> \u2013 Wilfred McClay, \u201cThe Tocquevillean Moment \u2026 and Ours,\u201d 4:30 p.m., Watkins Room, Trone Student Center<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Paige Blankenship in the Department of Political Science, 864-294-3547, or visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/tocquevilleprogram\">www.furman.edu\/tocquevilleprogram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former presidential and congressional staffer Dr. Yuval Levin opens Furman University\u2019s 2014 Tocqueville Program with a talk on Wednesday, Jan. 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Watkins Room of Trone Student Center on campus.\u00a0Dr. Levin\u2019s talk, &#8220;Like the Leaves of Sybil: Burke and Tocqueville on Tradition in the Democratic Age,&#8221; is free and open to the public. His lecture is the first of the four-part Tocqueville series, \u201cTocqueville and the American Republic.\u201d All lectures in the series are part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":12761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}