AEI has established a major new program of research, conferences, student fellowships, and publications concerned with issues of freedom and culture in contemporary society.

Charles Murray will deliver the April 2011 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

The haves in our society are increasingly cocooned in a system that makes it easy for their children to continue to be haves. That said, four steps might weaken the isolation of, at least, the children of the new upper class.

Denis Dutton is the founder and editor of the hugely popular website Arts & Letters Daily, named by the Guardian as the best website in the world. He also founded and edits the journal Philosophy and Literature and is a professor of philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury,...

Religion stands at the center of many of the most pressing questions of the early twenty-first century. Western civilization may, indeed, be at an epochal inflection point: the turn from its ancestral faiths bears momentous implications for the future. This workshop, bringing together an array of thinkers from...

Nancy Pelosi predicted that ObamaCare would gain popularity as people started understanding exactly how the law effects them but a recent study which previews the impact of the health-care overhaul shows that Democrats have launched America on the most reckless policy experiment in history.

When it comes to poverty and income inequality, the cycle of optimistic promises and zero results will repeat itself because politicians ignore causes that don't fit the way they want the world to be.

Camille Paglia will talk about the culture war, focusing on the politicization of American universities and the maligning of Western civilization by campus theorists "addicted to French or German ideas that have no relevance to American culture." She will also discuss the need for students to study the Bible in...