In his new book, Paul A. Rahe explores the subtle dangers of "soft despotism" in democracies.

Is the overly predicted life worth living?

In modern times, when American women serve alongside men in combat and when most Western women enjoy "emancipation," can courage still be considered the domain of one sex?

Harvey C. Mansfield of Harvard University and AEI delivered the third of the 2008-2009 Bradley Lectures on November 3.

“Rational control” is the subjection of society to reason as opposed to superstition, prejudice, or tradition, with the aim of getting us to behave better. Alexis de Tocqueville says this idea or practice began with the French monarchy; a more recent example is Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and...

In one of a series of events and conversations about the meaning of the American calendar, Amy A. Kass (Hudson Institute) and Leon R. Kass (AEI) seek to restore America's fading national memory with a celebration of the holiday by its original and proper name: Washington's Birthday.

Many Republican House members and the bloggers and Tea Partiers who cheered their victory in gaining a majority in November 2010 seem to be seething with discontent and eager for confrontation.They believe, reasonably, that that victory represented a repudiation of the vast expansion of government by the Obama...