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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Now a look at our current political divisions through a historical lens.
Yuval Levin is a founder and editor of the quarterly journal "National Affairs." His new book, focused on the giant thinkers of the late 1700s, is called "The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left."
Yuval Levin joins us now.
Welcome.
YUVAL LEVIN, "The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left": Thank you very much for having me.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So why did you think it was necessary to go back, what, over 200 years...
YUVAL LEVIN: Yes.
JUDY WOODRUFF: ... to these great thinkers, writers, who disagreed over the French Revolution...
YUVAL LEVIN: Yes.
JUDY WOODRUFF: ... to help us understand more about what we're going through today?
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