Congress’s Core Work is Negotiation w/ Yuval Levin

Checks & Balances is a podcast of the Society for the Rule of Law Institute.

Yuval Levin, the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), joins Gregg Nunziata on Checks & Balances for a discussion about our constitutional system—and how it’s holding up today. Levin explains why institutions matter, why Congress’s core work is negotiation, and why AI offers tempting shortcuts but could deprive us of the formative experiences gained through thought and reflection.

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Resources:

* Yuval Levin’s essay in The New Atlantis on Artificial Intelligence: “Idols of the Valley”

* Yuval Levin’s appearance on The Ezra Klein Show

* Yuval Levin’s book The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

* Yuval Levin’s book American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again

Note: This episode was recorded on August 20, 2026.

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