Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin
Yuval Levin discusses Edmund Burke at the American Enterprise Institute event, Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing, 1 October 2015
Born	1977 (age 39–40) Haifa, Israel
Education	BA, American University Ph.D., University of Chicago
Notable work	The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Left and Right (2013)

Yuval Levin is an American political analyst, public intellectual, academic and journalist. He is the founding editor of National Affairs and the author of four books.

Levin was born in Haifa, Israel and moved to the United States with his family at the age of eight. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science at American University and earned a PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Levin is the founding editor of National Affairs. He is also a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. In 2005 and 2006, he was a member of the White House domestic policy staff. He is the former chief of staff of the President's Council on Bioethics, a former Congressional staffer, contributing editor to National Review and the Weekly Standard, and one of the founders of The New Atlantis, where he still remains as a Senior Editor.

Levin is the author of four books and of numerous essays and articles dealing largely with political theory, science, technology, and public policy. On the relationship between political theory and public policy, Levin has said: