“All of us can play a part in healing our society’s wounds and divisions these days by thinking consciously, explicitly, about how to make the institutions that we are part of a little stronger."
Wheatley Institute helped to host Yuval Levin, director of social, cultural and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute, as a campus forum speaker at BYU.
Levin explained that, in a world becoming increasingly self-centered and cynical, students need to take personal responsibility to strengthen the social structures that hold our society together.
Levin encouraged students to actively engage in institutions and allow their roles within them to shape them into better individuals. He challenged students to reflect on their responsibilities by asking themselves: “Given my role here, how should I behave?”
He emphasized that by prioritizing integrity and the common good over selfish gain, institutions can be rebuilt as powerful forces for positive societal change.