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.

Leon Kass of AEI and University of Chicago delivered the February Bradley Lecture.

In our new world of biotechnology, gathering powers to intervene in human bodies and minds raise profound challenges to the meaning of our humanity. Crucial to meeting those challenges is a robust notion of human dignity—the special...

A panel of distinguished scholars and policy experts will address the ethical, political and military implications of the intervention in Kosovo. James Turner Johnson (Rutgers) will discuss the operation within the context of the just war tradition. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick (AEI Senior Fellow) will address the political implications of the...

The promise and the peril of our are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science.

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

Instead of committing malpractice, politicians should change the absurd tax system that forces us to buy health insurance through employers.

This issue introduces the Environmental Policy Outlook, a monthly essay on trends and controversies in environmental policy.

Nelson W. Polsby's Bradley Lecture.