At this AEI event, Michael Greve will discuss his new book, "The Upside-Down Constitution," along with panelists Christopher DeMuth (Hudson Institute), Rick Hills (NYU Law School) and Ben Wittes (Brookings Institution).

Virtually every action of any consequence, private as well as public, has some consequences that were not part of the purpose of the action.

The growing autonomy and self-assurance of the "permanent government" is one of the most striking developments in American politics in recent years. Increasingly, it seems, administrative agencies are able and willing to pursue their own policies and to co-opt, circumvent, or sabotage the decisions of political officials. The development raises...

DeMuth has served as president for twenty-one years.

In his new book, Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World that Works (Regnery, January 2008), former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich argues that America is at an important crossroads. Advances in technology, science, engineering, and medicine hold forth the promise of a golden age of...

AEI senior fellow Irving Kristol--godfather of the neoconservative movement--died peacefully at the age of eighty-nine.

The politics of poverty have shaped—and been shaped by—the end of history, meaning Francis Fukuyama’s idea that divisions of principle have faded from Western politics. While partisan rivalry remains, it no longer rests on opposed world...

President George W. Bush visited AEI for a candid, informal conversation on his presidency, with a special focus on domestic policy and the institution of the presidency.