Restoring Trust in American Institutions with Yuval Levin | BRI Scholar Talks

How can we restore trust in American institutions? To explore this question, BRI Senior Fellow Tony Williams is joined by Yuval Levin, Senior Fellow at the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy and Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Together they discuss the decline of institutions and their role in promoting better social interactions and creating a common purpose. How have institutions become platforms for performative outrage and self-promotion rather than healthy civic organizations?

0:00 Intro
2:00 Examples of Institutions
4:54 Role of Institutions in Forming Us
7:00 Institutions as Platforms for Self-Promotion
11:00 Culture War and Living Together
11:50 Decline of Institutions
14:04 Restoring the Trust
17:12 Outro

About Yuval Levin:

Yuval Levin is a Senior Fellow; Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy; Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also Editor in Chief for National Affairs. He is the author of three books including The Fractured Republic and A Time to Build about American culture and civil society.

About the Bill of Rights Institute:

Established in September 1999, the Bill of Rights Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that works to engage, educate, and empower individuals with a passion for the freedom and opportunity that exist in a free society. The Institute develops educational resources and programs for a network of more than 50,000 educators and 70,000 students nationwide.