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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…
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…