Yuval Levin - The Fractured Republic

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I ended up checking this guy out and his speech on a recent book he wrote called The Fractured Republic; it was something Jonathan Haidt spoke highly of and i think this guy's right although I understand the idea that granular politics or taking things as local as possible rather than everything as a national issue tends to get tarred as a conservative request for racism. I think otherwise - and a great example of states taking their rights to experiment with new policies is the recreational marijuana legalization in Colorado and California.

Any which way I think he makes some good arguments for building policy and politics organically, road-testing theories at local and state levels, and letting what works rise to the top rather than being immediately thrown in as church dogma or, worse, making its way into civil law deeply enough to become a deposit and have too much sitting on top of it once it's realized that the structure of a particular law is insidious to progress:

This was the Jonathan Haidt video where he spoke of Yuval's work - also a very good listen: