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May 4, 2023
Work Is Essential to the American Dream
Work is one of the foundations of American life. Almost always, being employed and earning income gives individuals the opportunity, responsibility, and community they need to flourish. The broader importance…
May 4, 2023
The Social Breakdown: The Poverty of Family, Community, and Religious Life in America
…he was joined by Indiana University’s Leslie Lenkowsky and the Woodson Center’s Robert Woodson—two integral contributors to AEI’s previous research efforts—who discussed the myriad ways that government crowds out civil…
May 3, 2023
Work-for-Welfare Gains Traction Among Republicans
…On introducing their unemployment bills, Wisconsin state senator Romaine Robert Quinn and state representative Warren Petryk noted the “overwhelming support at the polls” from Wisconsin voters seeking “to ensure that the state…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
…free institutions.”[1] Over a century and a half later, reviewing the state of American community life, Robert Putnam affirmed Tocqueville’s observation. In his magisterial Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival…
April 28, 2023
Social Capital: What Is It?
…assess trends in the various components of social capital (or to consider their distribution across Americans at a point in time). Since Robert Putnam first popularized the concept of social…
April 20, 2023
Religion’s Refusal to Die
…the inseparability of religion and politics in premodern Greek and Islamic traditions. The conference concluded on the evening of April 21 with a discussion between AEI’s Robert P. George and…
April 18, 2023
Introduction to The Social Breakdown
…Richard John Neuhaus, Robert Nisbet, Michael Novak, William Schambra, and Robert Woodson, the project produced the landmark brief To Empower People: From State to Civil Society, which highlighted the importance of…
March 2, 2023
The Lost World of Ecumenical Republicanism
…1968 campaign, Price had joined John Doar (father of Robert Doar, president of AEI, where I’m employed), working for the bi-partisan economic development effort of Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy and Republican Senator…
February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
Editor’s Note: The following chapters are AEI scholars’ contributions to a report from Opportunity America’s working group on K-12 education. The toll of the pandemic years is becoming clearer every…
February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
Editor’s Note: The following chapters are AEI scholars’ contributions to a report from Opportunity America’s working group on K-12 education. The toll of the pandemic years is becoming clearer every…