Evolving Citizenship
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Yuval Levin reflects on how American citizenship has evolved to embrace both diversity and unity.
Yuval Levin discusses the evolving nature of American citizenship, emphasizing how our national identity has shifted over time to reflect a broader, more inclusive understanding. He highlights the challenge and promise of fostering unity amidst diversity, noting that American citizenship is not static—it changes as our society does, and must be continually renewed through civic commitment.
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Evolving Citizenship
Clip: 11/4/2025 | 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Yuval Levin discusses the evolving nature of American citizenship, emphasizing how our national identity has shifted over time to reflect a broader, more inclusive understanding. He highlights the challenge and promise of fostering unity amidst diversity, noting that American citizenship is not static—it changes as our society does, and must be continually renewed through civic commitment.
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We can learn from th bad and the good with reverence.
If we understand that what we are doing is what they were doing, and approach our inheritance not in a spirit of idolatry and not in a spirit of iconoclasm, but in something like a spirit of repair that says, I need to fix this so that it can do what it was built to do.
A spirit of repair says to us we should be grateful for this, but there are ways in which it is broken.
And if we understand the spirit in which it was built, we can also have th right spirit for repairing it.
I think that's what's demanded of us.
It's hard, but that kind of maturity i what it takes to be a citizen.
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