Best of 2025: Michael Lewis on Who Is Government?
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Episode Best of 2025: Michael Lewis on Who Is Government?
In this Best of 2025-episode, Best-selling author Michael Lewis discusses his new book, Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service. As Americans’ distrust in the government continues to grow, Lewis’ book examines how the government works, who works for it, and why their contributions continue to matter. Jeffrey Rosen, CEO Emeritus of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
This conversation was originally streamed live as part of the NCC’s America’s Town Hall series on March 26, 2025.
Resources
• • Michael Lewis, ed., Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (2025) • • Michael Lewis, “The free‑living bureaucrat,” The Washington Post (March 2025) • • Michael Lewis, “Directions to a journalistic gold mine,” The Washington Post (Nov. 2024) • • Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (2022) • • Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk (2018) • • CURE ID
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Links in the notes 11
- https://www.michaellewiswrites.com/#who-is-government
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/michael-lewis-fda-who-is-government/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/michael-lewis-conclusion-who-is-government/
- https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881554/about-the-book/product-details
- https://www.michaellewiswrites.com/#the-fifth-risk
- https://cure.ncats.io/home?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template
- https://constitutioncenter.org/america-at-250
- https://constitutioncenter.org/news-debate/podcasts/pursuit-the-founders-guide-to-happiness
- https://constitutioncenter.org/news-debate/americas-town-hall-programs
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoAU4X6DUZSt5n6aI74Hw0A
- https://constitutioncenter.org/donate
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