Thanksgiving for (and in) the Constitution: Yuval Levin on gratitude

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2020 has shown us that our world has a lot of room for improvement, to say the least. But there’s also a lot to be grateful for. We’ve inherited an extraordinary constitutional system that has withstood the turmoil of 2020. This system’s wise and prudent stewards – such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass – demonstrated remarkable gratitude for the American project, even as they sought to reform it. They recognize the “unbought grace of life,” as Edmund Burke put it.

In today’s Thanksgiving episode, Yuval Levin, director of AEI’s Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies department and editor of National Affairs, sits down with Adam to discuss the role of gratitude in our political order, which was the subject of Yuval’s 2013 Bradley Prize remarks.