Self-referential, megalomaniacal, bombastic, narcissistic, he is an expert at branding, at showmanship, at publicity. Trump personifies the ethos of expressive individualism that dominates our culture. Its 272 pages are so dense with insight that the treatise is the bibliographic equivalent of a neutron star: compact and brilliant. Just finished The Fractured Republic and am already nostalgic for the experience of reading this trenchant and humane book. I called it “the book of the year” in a New York Post column, and in a review in these pages in May, David Bahr said The Fractured Republic “merges a deep philosophic understanding of the American experiment and a conceptual analysis of American history into a practical basis from which we can examine contemporary American problems with crystalline clarity.” Given the richness of the book, we invited four right-of-center intellectuals to expound upon, and expand on, Levin’s themes and message. -John Podhoretz It has excited more attention in the weeks leading up to its release than any comparable work in memory. Yuval Levin, the editor of the quarterly National Affairs and a sometime contributor to Commentary, has just published The Fractured Republic, an essay in book form about the political divide in the United States.
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