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September 11, 2024

Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event

…American Enterprise Institute Chester E. Finn Jr., President Emeritus, Thomas B. Fordham Institute Martin West, Henry Less Shattuck Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education Moderator: Yuval Levin, Director,…

October 31, 2023

It Takes Two

…decline, Kearney does believe culture is important. She presents evidence from her clever 2015 study with Phillip B. Levine showing that exposure to the MTV show 16 and Pregnant lowered teen pregnancy rates. If…

May 4, 2023

The Social Breakdown: The Poverty of Family, Community, and Religious Life in America

On May 4, AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility (COSM) hosted the launch of “The Social Breakdown,” a new research series dedicated to the study of social capital. https://www.youtube.com/embed/SWmPhcul8NE…

May 3, 2023

The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism

…of social order: the family. As Yuval Levin argues, stable and loving family attachments are the nexus of social capital development—modeling attachment to a variety of other social and cultural…

June 15, 2022

Second Time’s the Charm?

…a lot of conservatives clarify our priorities, goals, and arguments. The two of us were on opposite sides of the Romney proposal — Winship in opposition and Levin in support. Everyone involved supported…