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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 12, 2023
The GOP Should Be the Party of Parents
Republicans looking to expand their party’s coalition have a problem. The public identifies them above all with Donald Trump, who is decidedly unpopular. Voters who can possibly stand Trump (and…
June 30, 2023
It’s Time to End Legacy Admissions
The Supreme Court’s decision in the UNC and Harvard cases was received, as most news is these days, in two quite different ways on the two sides of our political…
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…
April 20, 2023
Religion’s Refusal to Die
https://www.youtube.com/embed/xtBQAmMGzMg https://www.youtube.com/embed/H-x80qGXw8c Event Summary On April 20–21, AEI and the Lefrak Forum cohosted a wide-ranging conference addressing religion’s persisting relevance in modernity’s public and private spheres of life. The conference…
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…
November 16, 2021
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
Last month, two of my colleagues at the American Enterprise Institute (Brad Wilcox and Lyman Stone), along with co-authors from the Wheatley Foundation and the Institute for Family Studies, published…
May 4, 2020
How To Educate an American
In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives’ ideas to reform America’s lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice and rigorous academic standards drew bipartisan support…
February 27, 2020
The American Dream Is Not Dead: A Book Event with Michael R. Strain
…much of the elegiac rhetoric about the American dream is overstated. The event concluded with an informal panel discussion among Dr. Strain, Dr. Reeves, and AEI’s Yuval Levin. — John…