. >> host: author yuval levin, what is your assessment of the united states?> guest: thanks for having me here. that is a wonderfully broad question to open within a challenging one. they are living in a moment of crisis. it is hard to deny. we have been through a spring dominated by a public health crisis. we are facing now also a social crisis and the struggle for racial the quality and very much of this moment that forces us to confront challenges that we've had trouble with in recent yea years. in th a time of crisis, you kno, it's because it is the time of testing its also the time to think about what america's strengths are, what they are good at as a country and how we can build on that address the enormous problems in front of us. >> host: how did we get here? ... >> this is that an era marked by crises from 9/11 to the financial crisis to a pandemic that forces us to look to the sources of restraint what the politics is not always good for doing the theory and practice room politics to address those problems that has long had. >>host: the fractured re

let's ask yuval levin if he can answer that question. in the first point about minneapolis that is a tragedy more than irony and a terrible tragedy that our entire country is rising up to respond to. on the second question you know, in terms of ethnic politics. a tendency towards political radicalism among american jews. there is a fairly large and growing segment in particular mike community is diverse also. i think the argument that they ought to make should reach beyond the bounds of religious and ethnic and racial communities and speak to all of us as americans as a single nation to appeal to our highest aspiration. i certainly think that is a kind of politics that we would want. you can't pick among them. it's like the parents with the children. the book that has sold the best is the great debate which is rooted in college courses and translated into few languages. i think people should read them all. >> the other two that we had been talking about in our time with him. as the fractured republic as well as his most recent. yuval lev