yuval levin is the editor of "national affairs." her talk fell row low and -- se editor of "the new atlantis" magazine and contributing editor to the "national review" and weekly standard. member of the white house domestic policy staff and executive director of the president's council on bioethics. john, we have already had you introduced. so we're familiar with john. charles haynes should be introduced, he's the vice president of the newseum institute, founding director of the religious freedom center and senior scholar at the 1st amendment center. he writes and speaks extensively on religious liberty and religion in american public life. he is also a go-to person for journalists trying to clarify religious freedom issues. he's best known for his work on 1st amendment issues in public schools and three of his guides on religious liberty were distributed by the u.s. department of education to every public school in the nation trying to solve issues, you know, all kinds of issues that school administrators face. we may talk about so

yuval, do you want to begin? >> thank you.nd thank you to the newseum and the federalist society for doing this. i would say one overwhelming sense that is so powerfully felt in this election is that the bu -- has to do with her subject is simply the sense of frustration within the ways in which our institutions seem to us to be dysfunctional. it seems as though we are at each other's throats all the time over everything. every question becomes a federal case, often literally, and we somehow lost the ability to resolve differences in the ways that our media institutions have often enabled us to do it. i think a lot of people have a sense this is being done on purpose by people they disagree with. one example of that from one side is the sense that a lot of religious traditionalists in america have, that the obama administration picks a fight with them over religious liberty by creating by choice, not in the law, requirement in the affordable care act that raised this divisive issue of whether employers need to fund house insur

yuval levin is the editor of "national affairs." her talk fell row low and -- se editor of "the new atlantis" magazine and contributing editor to the "national review" and weekly standard. member of the white house domestic policy staff and executive director of the president's council on bioethics. john, we have already had you introduced. so we're familiar with john. charles haynes should be introduced, he's the vice president of the newseum institute, founding director of the religious freedom center and senior scholar at the 1st amendment center. he writes and speaks extensively on religious liberty and religion in american public life. he is also a go-to person for journalists trying to clarify religious freedom issues. he's best known for his work on 1st amendment issues in public schools and three of his guides on religious liberty were distributed by the u.s. department of education to every public school in the nation trying to solve issues, you know, all kinds of issues that school administrators face. we may talk about so