American political analyst, public intellectual, academic and journalist. His areas of specialty include health care, entitlement reform, economic and domestic policy, science and technology policy, political philosophy, and bioethics.
He is the founding editor of National Affairs, director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a contributing editor of National Review and a senior editor of The New Atlantis.
Levin was vice president and Hertog Fellow of Ethics and Public Policy Center, executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics, Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy under President George W. Bush and contributing editor to The Weekly Standard. Prior to that he served as a congressional staffer at the member, committee, and leadership levels.
He holds a BA from American University and a PhD from the University of Chicago.
Books in order of publication:
Tyranny of Reason: The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. – 2001
Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy. New York: Encounter Books. – 2008
A Time for Governing: Policy Solutions from the Pages of National Affairs. New York: Encounter Books. – 2012
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. New York: Basic Books. – 2014
The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism. New York: Basic Books. – 2016
A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream. New York: Basic Books. – 2020
American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again. New York: Basic Books. – 2024
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