What do we owe each other when we can’t stand each other?
Recorded live at the Braver Angels Convention 2026 — in front of 1,000 people split evenly between red and blue — this episode brings that key question to a renowned civic scholar whose work gives Moni the most hope. Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute has a surprising answer to what’s really threatening the country — and it isn’t division. It’s passivity: treating ourselves as spectators instead of citizens. Together, he and Mónica dig into why conflict is our solution rather than our problem, what it actually means to be “responsible” for a country, and — because Levin can’t resist a good historical tangent — which founding father would love America today, and which one would be horrified.
Guest: Yuval Levin, director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute
Show notes with credits and full transcript can be found here: https://www.reclaimcuriosity.com/post/a-braver-way-episode-29
