the american enterprise institute yuval levin yuval levin. >> i want to thank you all for coming to politicsnd prose i'm preventing humor week hosts closer thousand events. year. something that is confirmed for the next three months you can go ahead and visit our website or pick up our events calendar. before i get started today are like tosk ask everyone to silence yourur cell phones, so as not to disrupt the event. and when it's time for the q&a i would ask you to come up to this microphone right here, next to the pillar, and please speak clearly into the microphone as we areec recording it and c-span book tv is here as well. on the q and a we will have a signing. this table if you haven't already purchased this book will have the books up at the register. so tonight i am excited to welcome yuval levin celebrating his newest book, a time to build. how we commit to institutions as nations have increased divisiveness, fueled by partisan politics, culture wars, and populist anger on both sides. yuval levin says instead of trying to tear down frameworks we should be looking to them as sources

yuval: i think this year you are going to start seeing some projects in production.some announcement that recently happened by road rage -- broad ridge that are reshaping how you trade u.s. treasury repo using blockchain and you are going to see that happening this year. you are going to start seeing other projects in different industries like the health care space starting to move closer and closer into production. at the end of the day, this technology is pretty invasive and there was a lot of hype, but at the end of the day, to implement this kind of technology that is pretty invasive into some core systems will take some time but i do think this year, you will start seeing some of these projects in production. emily: facebook with libra make a lot of noise last year. we've seen some of the biggest players drop out. would you count facebook out of this discussion at this point? yuval: first of all, this entire industry should thank facebook for their effort, because i think those that were skeptic have gotten a wake-up call and that is a good thing because at the

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please join me to welcome to politics and prose, yuval levin. [applause] >> thank you very much. i appreciate the welcome and what it might say what it takes a little work to understand. this is a book of what has gone wrong in recent years and what we can do about it. as something has gone wrong it is clear or isn't as we sometimes think or imagine or pretend and sent on - - we are living through a social crisis from vicious partisan polarization and alienation and despair without opioid abuse in recent years. these are deep dysfunctions and parts of society but they have some common roots and not even to say exactly what those roots are but part of the crisis is that we cannot quite seem to get a handle on what that is. traditional economic concerns don't cut it. we went through a severe recession but that ended more than a decade ago and now we have been living through one of the longest economic expansions in the modern era with inflation and interest rates and wages are rising. they are not suffering economically but the problems on that front don't add up to the crisis we a

yuval: yes.l, this entire industry should thank facebook for their effort, because i think those that were skeptics have gotten a wake-up call, and that is a good thing, because of the end of the day this technology will happen and will shape the next generation of technology. so from that perspective, i think the industry owes a lot of thanks to facebook. i think that when it comes to capital markets and to money, regulators are extremely concerned, and i think what could have been done better is how the industry worked with regulators. this is something that we take to heart extremely with every project that we do. we work with regulators to work within the current regulatory framework and if there are changes that need to happen, we work with them on that. i think in the case of facebook and libra, that caught the regulators by surprise, and i think that is what has created a lot of the backlash on facebook. paul: i just want to interrupt for a moment because we have some breaking news from on

here is that discussion with agi director yuval levin at politics and prose bookstore in washington dc. >> good evening. i want to thank you for coming to politics and prose, my name is alan and a part of the events team where we host close to a thousand events a year. for a full list of everything that is confirmed for the next three months visit our website at politics -- pros .com or pickup an event calendar. before we get started today i'd like to ask everyone to silence your cell phones. when it is time for the q&a i ask you to come up to this microphone right here next to the pillar and please speak clearly into the microphone as we are recording it today and c-span, booktv is here as well. following the q&a we will have a signing at this table and if you have not already purchased your books have plenty at the front of the store at the registers. tonight i'm excited to welcome yuval levin to politics and prose celebrating his newest book, "a time to build" from family and community to congress in the campus how recommitting to our institutions can revive the american dream. as t

here is that discussion with agi director yuval levin at politics and prose bookstore in washington dcevening. i want to thank you for coming to politics and prose, my name is alan and a part of the events team where we host close to a thousand events a year. for a full list of everything that is confirmed for the next three months visit our website at politics -- pros .com or pickup an event calendar. before we get started today i'd like to ask everyone to silence your cell phones. when it is time for the q&a i ask you to come up to this microphone right h

yuval: first of all, this entire industry should thank facebook for their effort, because i skepticstten a wake-up call and that is a good thing because at the end of the day, this technology will happen and will shape the next technology, so from that perspective, i think the industry owes a lot of thanks to facebook. when it comes to capital markets and to money, regulators are extremely concerned and what could have been done better is how the industry worked with regulators. this is something that we take to heart extremely with every project we do. we work with regulators to work within the current regulatory framework and if there are changes that need to happen, we work with them on that. in the case of facebook and that caught the regulators by surprise and caused a lot of the backlash on facebook. emily: it is not just big tech giants like google and facebook feeling the heat of u.s. regulators, but rising players like airbnb. the world's biggest time-sharing app has been citing rental regulations in cities across the country, seeking to clarify its legal status and protect

tonight i'm excited to welcome yuval levin to politics and prose celebrating his newest book, "a time to build" from family and community to congress in the campus how recommitting to our institutions can revive the american dream. as the nation faces increasing divisiveness fueled by partisan politics, cultural wars and populist on both sides he argues that rather than trying to tear down existing institutional frameworks we should be looking to these or these as sources of strength and support. through "a time to build" it shows that our current crisis isn't completely due to the presence of an oppressive force but to the absence of uniting forces and he urges us to commit ourselves to renewing the vitality of institutions. this ranges from the family and schools to churches and the military. to renew our ties to each other. he is the founder, founding editor of national affairs, director of social cultural and constitutional studies at the american enterprise institute and contribute in editor of national review, cofounder and senior editor of the new atlantis and has authored the

please join me welcoming to politics and prose, yuval levin. [applause] >> thank you very much i appreciate the welcome. i'm excited to chat about this book and what it might say and it takes a little work to understand. so what's gone wrong in our country in recent years what we can do about it's reasonably clear about what it is isn't as clear as what we can imagine but we are living through we can see from the polarization and the resentmentsa and isolation and alienation and that epidemic of opioid abuse in recent years and very different parts of society we have some common roots is not easy to say but part of that crisis is that we can't quite seem to get a handle on what that is those economic concerns don't cut it. it ended more than a decade ago and now through one of the longest economic expansions with the inflation and interestnt rate rates. and with those enormousis crisis. and they don't offer to be as healthy and safe as they have ever been. and some people argue the frustration are rooted in imaginary grievances. that they thems

please join me to welcome to politics and proseshoiom yuval levin. [applause] >> i appreciate the welcome. and i want to chat about this book and what it might say for the moment, it takes a little work to understand. it's about what has gone wrong in our country in recent years and what we can do about it. but something has gone wrong is clear but exactly what it is is not as clear as we agmetimes think or imagine or pretend we are living through a social crisis. we can see that it everything from polarization to cultural resentment with isolation and alienation and despair and suicide rates with the opioid abuse in recent years. and in very different parts of our society but they have some common roots and not even to say exactly what those roots are but part of the crisis is that we cannot seem to get a handle on what that is. and to go through a severe recession but ended more than a decade ago and going to the longest economic expansions with very low unemployment and inflation and interest rates and wages are rising. when they are suffering eco