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.

An embryo, animal as well as human, possesses indwelling powers of organic and integrated self-development and ontogensis worthy of respect.

Opposition to human cloning-to-produce children in America is overwhelming: the vast majority of our fellow citizens, including most scientists, would like to see it banned.

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...

This accessible volume promises to inform the public policy debate over the permissible conduct of genetic research and the permissible uses of its discoveries.

This anthology uses the soul-shaping power of story, speech, and song to help Americans appreciate more fully who they are as citizens of the United States.

Religion and the American Future is a lively, learned dialogue on the role of religion in American society.

Thomas Hobbes' understanding of individual natural rights offers a firm rationale for the dignity of human life.