The ‘Famous Last Words’ I’d Like to Hear Now
Gloria Steinem didn’t filter her opinions. The famed feminist who said “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle” was, at the very least, honest. Which is why it’s odd she chose to appear on...
View ArticleTime Magazine and the Climate Crisis Eternal
That the climate crisis narrative and the policies attendant upon it are facing political headwinds is no secret, even, or especially, after decades of climate alarmism about horrors that always are a...
View ArticleSNAP and Americans’ Health
In 1964, when Congress passed the Food Stamp Act, the country faced a problem of inadequate nutrition among low-income Americans due to insufficient food. In response, the Food Stamp Program—today...
View ArticleAEI Housing Market Indicators, September 2026
Slides· Methodology The American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center released its monthly update to the AEI Housing Market Indicators on September 29, 2026. Video Recording HMI Briefing Presentation...
View ArticleReform from Within: A Fireside Chat with Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier
Vanderbilt University has been at the forefront of the recent push to reform higher education. Much of this energy has been directed by Daniel Diermeier, Vanderbilt’s ninth chancellor, who took office...
View ArticleThe Lessons We’re Not Learning from Nikole Hannah-Jones
I’m going to be impatient and blunt: Nikole Hannah-Jones’s daughter did not fail to learn fractions because she and her classmates were black. Her teacher did not repeatedly fail to show up to work...
View ArticleWhat Fascination with Lindsay Clancy Case Says About Society
It’s easy to see the still-unfolding case of Lindsay Clancy as unique. It’s horribly unusual for a mother to admit to murdering her own children and novel to use “postpartum psychosis” as a rationale...
View ArticleChildren sleep in the second bedroom: Why single-family rentals are critical...
You can download a pdf copy of this report here. Myth vs. Market Reality: Counter-Intuitive Insights from AEI Housing Center’s Rental Housing Nowcast Myth: Most low-income children live in...
View ArticleThe Small Colleges Beating the Odds on Completion Rates
Institutions that enroll students with higher SAT and ACT scores tend to boast higher completion rates, according to recently published research from the American Enterprise Institute. Every 100-point...
View ArticleA Father’s Job Is Never Done
Scott Galloway, the NYU professor and public intellectual, said something recently that gave me real pause. In fact, I was shocked by it because Galloway has real influence and I value his work with...
View ArticleFlock Camera Systems and Mass Surveillance in Fourth Amendment Perspective
We have seen enormous progress in information technology thanks to the twinned advances of miniaturization and digitization. We have surrounded ourselves with digital sensors that easily capture and...
View ArticleHow Would a Blue Wave in the Midterms Impact Education?
Midterm elections are often tough for the party that controls the White House. That’s especially true for Republicans this year, with inflation up and Trump’s poll numbers way down. Signs of a...
View ArticleGood Schools Are Built on Effective Execution
Roland Fryer observes that “resources alone can’t explain disparate outcomes among schools serving similar children with similar budgets” (“The Education of Nikole Hannah-Jones,” op-ed, Sept. 24)....
View ArticleA Small Pin and a Larger Lesson
I recently saw a batch of photographs from the Browning School in New York on Instagram, and I couldn’t stop smiling. The photographs showed the school’s Middle School Pinning Ceremony, where eighth...
View ArticleCuba the Day After: Building the Infrastructure
Countries are generally slow to recover from communism. It took Poland, Vietnam, and Romania each 20 to 25 years to roughly double their real per capita GDPs. America’s neighbor to the south Cuba—once...
View Article“It’s a Form of Apocalypticism Applied to Science Policy”
Ari Schulman: Tony, I’ve spent the past year trying to make sense of what the Trump administration’s agenda is for science. It’s a tough job, because you hear two very different stories coming from...
View ArticleWe Are Leaving Behind a Growing Number of Struggling Readers
Ever since the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) took effect in 2002, student “proficiency” has been a guiding principle of education policy and reform. NCLB mandated that every student in the U.S....
View ArticleAmerica’s Best Advantage over China
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s D.C. itinerary includes a stop at the National Archives with President Trump. Here’s hoping they visit the Rotunda, where the Charters of Freedom are on permanent...
View ArticleShould Governments Regulate an AI Model Development Slowdown?
Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger tore the lid off a proverbial can of worms earlier this month when posting on X his view that the probability of an out-of-control artificial intelligence...
View ArticleDiscussing the Trump-Xi summit: Continetti on Fox News’“Special Report”
Director of Domestic Policy Studies Matthew Continetti discusses the Trump-Xi summit on Fox News’ Special Report. The post Discussing the Trump-Xi summit: Continetti on Fox News’ “Special Report”...
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