For a lot more than two decades, our political life has beendivided between a celebration of improvement and a celebration of conservation. In TheGreat Issue, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the Left-Right separate byexamining the views from the males who best symbolized each side of that controversy atits outset: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration ofthe origins of our politics order, Levin shows that American partisanshiporiginated in the debates within the People from france Revolution, fueled with the fieryrhetoric of these ideological titans.

Levin masterfully displays how Burke’s and Paine’sdiffering sights, a reforming conservatism and a repairing progressivism,continue to form our current political discourse-on concerns varying fromabortion to welfare, education, economics, and beyond. Essential reading foranyone wanting to understand Washington’s often acrimonious rifts, The GreatDebate gives a profound examination of what conservatism, liberalism, andthe issue between them truly amount to.