Person

Yuval Levin

Political theorist of institutional decay, subsidiarity, and how mediating structures sustain democratic life.

Why this matters

Levin argues for layered responsibility—when scale erodes the institutions people actually live inside.

Works

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The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age

Levin, Yuval. *The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism*. New York: Basic Books, 2016.

Related books

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Living in Sediment

How Structures Outlive Their Reasons

We live inside inherited systems built for constraints that no longer exist. When structures survive after their reasons disappear, meaning drifts—and the danger is forgetting the sediment is sediment.