The students who walked out were exercising the very freedom Haidt was there to defend. The administration that booked him and the magazine that published him both did the small, unglamorous work ...

In 1996, Alan Greenspan coined the term irrational exuberance to describe what he considered to be a grossly overvalued stock market driven by the promise of an internet-driven economic revolution.

Despite long-term bond yields soaring to multiyear highs and the clearest signs of public debt unsustainability, the governments of many of today's major economies seem to be doing nothing about the ...

The great question of the AI age is not whether machines will become more powerful. They will. Rather, the question is whether we will remain serious enough about forming souls to ensure that the ...

On May 13, AEI’s Joshua T. Katz hosted the third installment in a series of events on the academic disciplines, focusing on the discipline of history. After brief introductory remarks from Dr. Katz, ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

President Donald Trump has set forth an ambitious plan to reform the federal approach to immigration policy and enforcement. This plan can broadly be categorized into two overarching goals: (1) to ...

According to the latest trade data from the US Census Bureau, as reported by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), 1 US agricultural exports for calendar year 2024 are estimated at $174.4 billion, ...

In the spring of 2000, E.D. Hirsch Jr. published an essay in American Educator titled “You Can Always Look It Up—Or Can You?” It’s one of those pieces that distills a lifetime of insight into a few ...

Although national test scores provide clear evidence on student achievement across time, they do not illuminate what is driving gains or losses. Nonetheless, careful examination of test scores can ...

Work has long been viewed as a critical pathway out of poverty. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of federal safety-net programs—designed to alleviate poverty and promote economic ...

Last month, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated that the war in Iran had cost the U.S. Treasury $12.7 billion over the first 12 days of the war.1 If we project that daily cost ...