I wrote a review of Yuval Levin's excellent book and offered a way of thinking about liberty, institutions, decentralization, and the formation of citizens. isi.org/modern-age/dep… @ISI @AEI @RSI

"As Levin and earlier scholars like Robert Nisbet have observed, people don’t take part in institutions just to join something. People gather to get things accomplished: formation appears to be a by-product of purposive activities." isi.org/modern-age/dep… @ISI @smarick

How liberty leads to civil society and how we can work through institutions to live together peaceably and flourish.