Press Release AEI Resident Scholar Yuval Levin Named to the

Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Washington, DC (February 13, 2020) — American Enterprise Institute (AEI) President Robert Doar announced today that AEI Resident Scholar Yuval Levin has been named to AEI’s Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair. Levin directs AEI’s Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies research division and is the founding editor of National Affairs. He is also a senior editor of The New Atlantis and contributing editor to National Review.

Levin and scholars in this AEI research division study the foundations of self-government and the future of law, regulation, and constitutionalism. They also explore the state of American social, political, and civic life while focusing on the preconditions necessary for family, community, and country to flourish.

“I am delighted to name Yuval to this chair. As one of our nation’s foremost public intellectuals, Yuval is leading a renewal of the American experiment by encouraging new, concrete approaches to policy rooted in the principles of freedom and limited government,” said Doar.

Ravenel Curry III said, “Yuval’s work in standing up to today’s challenges to liberal democracy, the market economy, and the rule of law could not be more vital to helping our nation’s citizens understand the foundations of America’s prosperity and strength. I am thrilled to be able to play a role in advancing this important mission.”

Before joining AEI in June 2019, Levin was the Hertog Fellow and vice president at the Ethics & Public Policy Center. From 2004 through 2006, he served on the White House domestic policy staff under President George W. Bush. He also worked as executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics and as a congressional staffer. Levin is the author of “A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream” (Basic Books, 2020) and “The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism” (Basic Books, 2016), as well as several prior books on political philosophy and public policy. He has been widely published in the popular press, including in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

“I am honored to hold this chair bearing the Curry name and, together with the efforts of my colleagues, work to ensure that amid the debates roiling our nation today, the principles of the American founding, the promise of classical liberalism, the frameworks of American constitutionalism, and the ideals of our great moral traditions are not lost or abandoned,” said Levin.

The Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair at AEI was established in 2013 by a $3 million gift from Beth and Ravenel Curry, founders of Eagle Capital Management LLC. Ravenel Curry III is a member of the AEI Board of Trustees. The chair was previously held by Arthur Brooks, president emeritus of AEI, a professor of the practice of public leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School.

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