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Yuval Levin on American Renewal

JL;DR SUMMARY Yuval Levin explores the concept of cultural renewal through the biblical story of Nehemiah, highlighting the dual responsibilities of rebuilding and defending cultural and institutional foundations. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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TraditionEducationAmerican JewsAmerican SocietyYuval LevinTikvahCultural RenewalNehemiahJewish Leadership ConferenceBiblical Wisdom

Places mentioned

Texas, United States
"What we're witnessing in higher education now, in Florida and also in Texas and North Carolina and Tennessee and Ohio and some other red states, is a willingness and an ability to build while fighting."
North Carolina, United States
"What we're witnessing in higher education now, in Florida and also in Texas and North Carolina and Tennessee and Ohio and some other red states, is a willingness and an ability to build while fighting."
Florida, United States
"What we're witnessing in higher education now, in Florida and also in Texas and North Carolina and Tennessee and Ohio and some other red states, is a willingness and an ability to build while fighting."
Ohio, United States
"What we're witnessing in higher education now, in Florida and also in Texas and North Carolina and Tennessee and Ohio and some other red states, is a willingness and an ability to build while fighting."
Tennessee, United States
"What we're witnessing in higher education now, in Florida and also in Texas and North Carolina and Tennessee and Ohio and some other red states, is a willingness and an ability to build while fighting."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"To build a Jewish classical school in the middle of Manhattan, to build out programs for Jewish students in the intensely contested spaces of the modern university, to build a vision of red state Judaism, to illuminate the links between the Jewish tradition and the American story, are all ways of following Nehemiah's example."

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