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 14, AEI’s Beth Akers hosted an event focused on the current state of the value and accountability movement in US higher education policy. Following opening remarks by Dr. Akers, the event began ...

Across a daylong conference of keynotes and panels, participants emphasized that today’s electricity challenges are not merely about adding supply but about aligning policy, markets, and finance with ...

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 ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

Researchers and decision makers in Beijing and the West pay close attention to many major Chinese population trends, including its pronounced sub-replacement fertility, its shrinking manpower totals, ...

As the price tag of a college degree soars, the perceived value by parents, students, and employers alike is decreasing. A 2024 essay in The Wall Street Journal found, “Nearly half of parents say they ...

In recent years, the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have earned the reputation as the best in the Arab world. Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis went so far as to bestow on them ...

In July 2015, the Obama administration announced the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program to support postsecondary opportunities for those incarcerated in federal and state prisons. Providing federal ...