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Yuval currently wears three hats:
At the American Enterprise Institute think tank, he’s the Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies.
He’s the editor-in-chief of National Affairs, a quarterly journal of essays about domestic policy, political economy, and political thought.
He’s also authored numerous books. In addition to “A Time To Build”, I also highly recommend “The Fractured Republic”, and also “The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left”.
Yuval served as a member of the White House domestic policy staff under President George W. Bush. He was also executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics. He earned his masters and PhD from the University of Chicago.
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Very interesting discussion.
A friend of mine listened to this episode and disagreed with Yuval’s suggestion that WFH will lead people to become better loners. My friend thinks that WFH is a fundamentally conservative notion, that it will lead people to seek out local sources for support like community and church. He says that the points Yuval makes about WFH are unique to lockdown circumstances, which would be very different if we kept the current levels of working away from offices, minus the lockdown conditions of things being closed and restricted. I am curious what the Ricochetti have to say about it, if anything.
I had been thinking along the lines of your friend, but it’s a choice, right? If I’m a member of a church or bowling club, and I’m working from home, I’ll probably begin to value the personal interactions I get from church or bowling club more. I do worry about folks who aren’t members of anything. Will they go join something, and how do we help/encourage folks to join?