American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president Arthur C. Brooks has announced that AEI scholar Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the recipient of AEI’s 2012 Irving Kristol Award. Dr. Kass will receive the award and deliver the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

The message is clear: A slowly dying patient must not take any initiative to save his own life, even though the status quo is pitifully inadequate.

When a kind-hearted donor givesa strangerher kidney, who is exploited?

States should require that prosecutors first obtain declarations from qualified medical experts as to the good faith of the physician in question before charges are filed.

As the terror threat grows and terrorist groups demonstrate worldwide reach, democracies fumble not only for an effective political strategy to combat terrorism, but also for a definition.

The actions of the United Statespertaining to international diplomacy and the importance they play in defeating violent extremists.

Appeasing terror fails; so too does neglect of terror. Left alone, terrorism metastasizes. The only way to defeat terror is to raise the cost of the tactic.

Is it politically desirable for society to credit a designated group called "bioethicists" with expertise in resolving the most difficult moral questions?