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.

AEI visiting scholar Robert Kaestner and his coauthor Anthony Lo Sasso, both professors at the University of Illinois at Chicago, challenge the underlying assumptions of the health law passed last March in a new study.

Just three weeks after Columbia's university senate voted in favor of engaging with ROTC, Columbia has announced it will reinstate its Navy ROTC program. Meanwhile, ROTC looks set to return to both Stanford and Yale.

Policymakers should not wait any longer to address the growing fiscal crisis in this country. Responsible reform of Medicare is a major component of any plan to place the country back on a sustainable fiscal path.

Few controversies in modern medicine are as emotionally charged as the one over the causes of autism and its possible cures. Journalists, celebrities, and a few medical researchers have claimed that some long-used vaccines cause autism and that various substances and procedures can cure it.

Wading into this controversy is...

The new health care law will likely generate more cost shifting--the opposite of what its supporters would have us believe.

All levels of government face growing pressures to restrain spending. One downside to the rapid growth in tax-financed health spending that I have documented in several prior posts is the vulnerability of the health system to measures taken to curb government spending. But the degree of such vulnerability varies dramatically across different components of the health sector.

The humanity of unborn babies will define the country's continuing abortion debate for the next several years.