What does it mean to be an American? What is government for? What reforms will fix our political system? Join Jonah Goldberg, Yuval Levin, and 100 little policy gnomes at the American Enterprise Institute to find out! Jonah and Yuval cover America at 250 and reflect on the Bicentennial. They also discuss Graham Platner versus Ken Paxton, what it means to hold office, America’s 50/50 problem, unitary executive theory, the administrative state, civic virtue, election reform, Nixonian propaganda, and taking people as they find them. 

Show Notes:

—AEI’s America at 250 series 

—Remnant on E. E. Schattschneider and primaries

—Yuval talks to Ezra Klein

—Lee Drutman on The Ezra Klein Show

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