Why Institutions Are Failing
20th January 2020
Yuval Levin’s new book — available for presale on Amazon; released tomorrow — argues that we are living through a social crisis.
Duh. If all it takes to write a book is to wake up and look around, we’re all in clover.
Levin, my colleague at AEI, focuses on the important role of institutions. He writes that public trust in institutions is commonly undermined by abuses of power. That isn’t our era’s unique problem.
Institutions are only as good as the people who man them. If an institution is full of corrupt power-hungry sociopaths, all the paper guarantees in the world will not keep it from going to Hell.
This is what has motivated the proglodyte ‘march through the institutions’ that has been proceeding successfully during all of my adult life.