This Bradley Lecture is based on Brooks’s new book, “The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise” (Basic Books, May 2012).

At this event, we will discuss the Obama administration's FY 2013 defense budget and the broader context behind its new strategic guidance.

In the past decade, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s budget has increased threefold and the fundamental problems remain. For the sake of investors, who have lost billions in fraudulent schemes that should have been discovered, it is high time that these organizational issues be addressed.

Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

At this AEI event, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan will deliver remarks on the nation's fiscal and economic challenges.

Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Representative Ron Kind (D-WI), Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) will begin the discussion of the need to reform agriculture subsidies in the 2012 Farm Bill. Barry K. Goodwin of North Carolina State University will discuss many of the myths and legends incorrectly used by the agriculture industry to extend these harmful policies.

At this event, Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) will discuss new legislation aimed at increasing the accountability of the Federal Reserve while strengthening its independence from political pressure.

Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense automatically faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that america's civilian and military leaders have cadidly described as "devastating" and "very high risk."