Hunter finds the administration's spending plans unrealistic, opposes more Race to the Top funding and federal support for Common Core assessments, is prepared to fight for DC vouchers, and thinks student performance is ultimately a matter of parental responsibility. Here's what he had to say.

So far, the Alliance has weathered the shocks of the Iraq war and aftermath. But preserving and extending that basic sense of "being in it altogether" is the most important task of alliance; it is the "without which nothing" that must be fully grasped and acted upon on both sides of the Atlantic.

We've never had a nerd president. White House correspondents call their gala the 'nerd prom' because it sounds self-deprecating around celebrities and bigwigs.

At this event, James Hunter discussed where Evangelical activism fits within a new "powerhouse generation."

With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law, we’re once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the obligations of the citizen — and non-citizen. Rather than come at it from the usual angle, I thought I’d try something...

With the deficit-reduction "Super Committee" deliberations approaching, and the prospect of deeper and more damaging cuts to defense spending in sight, Defending Defense brings together Senators Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl and Representatives Randy Forbes and Allen West for a discussion of U.S. defense spending and America’s global commitments.

Negative views of banks, financial institutions, and Wall Street are at their highest level in nearly 40 years. But is Occupy Wall Street (OWS) gaining traction? Many Americans have not made up their minds, and public interest in OWS does not appear to be growing.

AEI's Christina Hoff Sommers is concerned by attempts to transform academic science with feminist dogma, which would reduce American competitiveness.