Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin is the editor of National Affairs and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Yuval Levin is the editor of National Affairs, a quarterly journal of essays on domestic policy and politics. He is also the Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing editor to National Review and the Weekly Standard. He has been a member of the White House domestic policy staff (under President George W. Bush) and a congressional staffer. His essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications and he is the author, most recently, of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. He holds a PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

 

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The Midterm Confidence Spiral

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Publius the Institutionalist

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The More Things Change…

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Recovering the Melting Pot

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