Politics

The 2018 AEI Summer Honors Program

Thousands of college students travel to Washington, DC, every summer to learn about the world of…

Dignity through humility

Andy Smarick gave this as the opening lecture at the Values and Capitalism Summer Conference on June 15, 2017.

Thank you so much for having me here. It’s a real pleasure to get to talk to such a talented, curious group of young scholars.

When it comes to schooling, does the public trust red or blue?

The CAN DO of work

The way the issue is reported, it’s easy to conclude that understanding employment is largely a mechanical exercise: When…

Authority, schools, and America’s system of government

Subsidiarity and Trump’s cabinet

Among the Right’s ongoing concerns about President Trump is his apparent disinterest in federalism and the idea of subsidiarity. We just don’t have much evidence that this administration wants to move power from Washington to states and then relocate as much of it as…

Presidential voices of the past

By Michael Rubin

It’s amazing how much has been lost to history simply because humanity had no way to preserve it. Writing, for example, is only 5,000 years old and so little is known about societies which predate that period.

Trump’s Inauguration Day: Policy recommendations for the new president