this month is author and scholar yuval levin. concentrating on his three most recent books, "the great debate: edmund burke, thomas paine, and the birth of risht and left" came out in 2013, "the fractured republic: renewing america's social contract in the age of individualism" 2017, and "a time to build," his most recent, from family and community to congress and the campus, how recommitting to our constitutions can revive the american dream. charlie in roslyn heights, new york, you are on the air. >> i would like to make two points. i agree with what you were saying when it came to morals and the question, we don't value character in our society anymore. i don't know if we ever did but i usually tell young people the most important thing in life is being a good decent person. that's the first thing we should be. that is dying in our society. everything you are talking about also, we have a problem in our society not mentioned, he has not mentioned that we have a concentration of wealth, and communication with that wealth, you h

sue went thank you michael, yuval levin. >> what it actually means by compromise. if it means people giving up on core belief that think it means getting part of what you want on a practical policy situation based on your core beliefs ultimately were forced to decide which are willing to give what most matters to you. there certainly issues like abortion very difficult to compromise. but actually do compromise even on those things with practical matters when we face a choice that's an all or nothing choice we strive to turn it more like a give-and-take. taken over by the courts in our country has been less open to this type of compromise. there's a lot of people in the pro-life side would say abortion should be determined in the states there'd certainly be a diversity of outcomes if you did that. some states would have very liberal abortion regimes and some less so. we certainly would have more restrictions and we have now in the united states has the most liberal abortion regime and the western world, almost in the entire world with practically no constraints what

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go ahead with your question or comment for yuval levin. >> i don't have a question. i have a statement. i worry about ourself as up tri. worry about ourself as how we rue ourselves as american citizens. get -- all the time for being in the military. don't need to be thanked to be in the military. i consider -- i volunteered during the draft. i consider what i did was for my country, okay? and i view today a political system that looks like a tug of war, two groups which are basically the same side of the coin, just two faces of -- doesn't matter which one lands on top. all want to be on top. think we would be better to divest ourselves of all political parties in the united states, and just require people to do their job and that would be entailing changing the paradigm. i don't think that i elect somebody for their views. they dent represent me, not one politician i know in the united states, in the station, represents me. nobody in the state of oregon represents me. they represent themselves. >> host: all right. >> guest: well, i think there's a level of frustratio

seattle go ahead you are on with author yuval levin. >>caller: hello. i would like to know how i as a non- trump supporter but today is an older person i appreciate burke a lot more but how do i talk to people who are trump supporters to seem to be resistant to compromise and opposed to common cause unless you are on that team the partisanship has gotten way out of hand. >> i very much agree with you about this and in both parties the unwillingness to compromise is now the core problem of our political life not the fact there is a left or right or factions within left or right to like or not like but the fact they cannot see each other as conversation partners and as partners in compromise so what polarization is meant in the politics of the 21st century is the loss of the sense that ultimately to compromise the only way politics would function. >> one of those is we haven't had a sturdy majority and minority party and political scientist often use the terms the sun party and the moon party so there is a strong party it could be the democrats or the rep

watch in depth with yuval levin on book tv on c-span2. >> now on american history tv, cornell college professor katherine stewart talks about racial dynamics in the 1930s, an effort to gather narratives from former slaves. we recorded the interview at the historians annual meeting in philadelphia. >> catherine stewart, your book "long past slavery: representing race in the federal writers project." >> created specifically art projects to put writers and artists back to work. they created the federal writer's project and decided to start collecting ex-slave testimony. the 1930s was the last opportunity to collect the oral histories of kind of the last generation of americans who

sunday noon for a live conversation with author and american enterprise institute scholar yuval levin. his most recent book is a time to build. other titles include the great debate, and a fractured republic. join the conversation with your phone calls, tweets, texts and facebook messages. watch "in depth" with yuval levin on booktv on c-span2. >> axios hosted senator bob casey pennsylvania and bill cassidy of louisiana discussing the impact of coronavirus in nursing homes. they look at the need for increased testing and adequate medical supplies for long-term care facilities. >> hello and welcome to an axios virtual event. i mike allen, cofounder of axios, and welcome to my home in arlington, virginia. i'm right across the bridge from georgetown and at 76 degrees in here because i don't know how to fix my thermostat. today's axios virtual event is on a topic that hits very close to home to me, and a no for a lot of people in the audience. i'd like to thank aarp for making this conversation possible. we are going to talk about nursing homes in this covid moment, and more broadly, how

watch "in depth" with yuval levin on booktv on c-span2. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. >> looking for titles in book stores this week and watch me of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. c-span2. next, "new york times" economics reporter eduardo porter looks at racism in america. >> welcome come everyone. my name is maureen conway, i'm a vice president at the aspen institute and executive director of the aspen institute economic opportunities program. it is my pleasure to welcome you to today's talk with eduardo porter discussing his book "american poison: how racial hostility destroyed our promise." the important evocations of that book for our current context. this conversation is part of the economic opportunities program ongoing opportunity in america discussion series for which we explore the changing landscape of economic opportunity and the implications for individuals, families and kinard is all across the united states.

. >> sunday at noon eastern, a live conversation with scholar yuval levin. his most recent book is "a time to build." other titles include the great debate and the fractured republic. join the conversation with your phone calls, tweets, texts and facebook messages. watch " in depth" with yuval levin on booktv on c-span2. >> here are some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to the wall street journal. topping the list are two memoirs. glenn done doyle's untamed and former first lady michelle obama's "becoming," the best selling book of 2018. after that is thoughts on the medical community in "plague of corruption." that's follow by fox news host pete hegseth's thoughts on the trump presidency in "american crusade." and wrapping up a look at is some of the best selling nonfiction books according to "the wall street journal" is "the splendid and the vial," eric larson's study of winston churchill's leadership during the london blitz. some of these authors is have appeared on booktv, and you can watch them online at booktv.org. .. many hats, v

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a live conversation with author and american enterprise -- lar you've all of in yuval levin.n with the phone calls, tweets and facebook messages. tv onin-depth on book c-span2. >> washington journal continues. owens,ay hello to zack senate reporter for the national journal. coming up with the judiciary hearing with the fbi russia investigation of 2016. inve heard the term senator's comments and tweets and tech and facebook's of crossfire hurricane operation. what does that mean? guest: it's the name of the counterintelligence operation in 2016 before there was a mueller report. this was the first fbi probe of the trump campaign and of russian contacts with that campaign. thenwas the fbi under director james comey looking into contacts between folks like george papadopoulos, carter page , with russian intelligence agents or with the russian ambassador to the united states. the senators today will be talking with the former deputy attorney general about that investigation. there were reports to look into that investigation and how it started and you can expect republicans to pu

. >> sunday on in-depth alive conversation with author and american institute scholar yuval levin. other titles include the great debate and a fractured republic. jointhe conversation with your text and facebook messages. watch in depth with yuval levin on c-span2 . >> sunday night on q and a, peggy wallace kennedy, daughter of former four term alabama governor and presidential candidate george wallace talks about her father's controversial career and what inspired her to row right her recent book the broken road . >> in 1996 we took our youngest son burns who was nine at the time to the martin luther king museum historical site in atlanta . and we went to his church and his grave and we went over to the museum and it was being newly constructed atthat time . and we were going through the exhibits and we came to the exhibit, alabama exhibit and it showed that edmund pettis bridge, the bond out 16th street brat baptist church. fire hoses and dogs, birmingham and george wallace standing in the schoolhouse store . and burns looked up at me and he said he was so sad. why did papa do th

. >> sunday at noon eastern, a live conversation with yuval levin.is most recent book is "a time to build." other titles include " the great debate," and "the fractured republic." texts,th your tweets, and facebook messages. watch on c-span2. ♪ c-span has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events. you can watch all of the public affairs programming on television, online, or listen on our free app, and be part of the national conversation through daily washington journal programs, or through our social media feeds. by cablereated television companies as a public service, and brought to you by your television provider. journal"ngton continues. host: we welcome to the program dr. michael sagg, professor and infections disease professor at the university of birmingham -- university of alabama at birmingham. about looking at the reopening that is happening in many states across the country. what are you looking for as possible early indications of spikes as states reopen and the summer ensues, and fall b