{"id":3088,"date":"2014-10-09T04:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/09\/former-presidential-staffer-levin-to-speak-oct-9\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:44:28","slug":"former-presidential-staffer-levin-to-speak-oct-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/former-presidential-staffer-levin-to-speak-oct-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Former presidential staffer Levin to speak Oct. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Levins-book2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9665 lazyload\" alt=\"Levins-book2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Levins-book2-medium.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/180;\" \/><\/a>Former presidential and congressional staffer Dr. Yuval Levin will speak on the Furman University campus Thursday, Oct. 9 at 5 p.m. in Johns Hall 101.<\/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. Part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program, Dr. Levin\u2019s lecture is presented by Furman\u2019s College Republicans and by the Tocqueville Program at Furman University, which is sponsored by Ginny and Sandy MacNeil, Beth and Ravenel Curry, and several private foundations.<\/p>\n<p>Levin, described as \u201cthe right\u2019s new favorite intellectual\u201d by the New Republic and \u201can intellectual prodigy\u201d by the New York Times, is one of the leaders of the emerging reform conservative movement that aims to reshape the Republican Party from the inside out.<\/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\u201cImagining the Future: Science and American Democracy,\u201d and, most recently,\u00a0\u201cThe Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Left and Right.\u201d 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, Levin 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>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 will speak on the Furman University campus Thursday, Oct. 9 at 5 p.m. in Johns Hall 101.\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. Part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program, Dr. Levin\u2019s lecture is presented by Furman\u2019s College Republicans and by the Tocqueville Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":13648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","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=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}