AEI has established a major new program of research, conferences, student fellowships, and publications concerned with issues of freedom and culture in contemporary society.

Denis Dutton is the founder and editor of the hugely popular website Arts & Letters Daily, named by the Guardian as the best website in the world. He also founded and edits the journal Philosophy and Literature and is a professor of philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury,...

Religion stands at the center of many of the most pressing questions of the early twenty-first century. Western civilization may, indeed, be at an epochal inflection point: the turn from its ancestral faiths bears momentous implications for the future. This workshop, bringing together an array of thinkers from...

When it comes to poverty and income inequality, the cycle of optimistic promises and zero results will repeat itself because politicians ignore causes that don't fit the way they want the world to be.

In contrast to a predominantly secular Europe, the United States continues to experience conflict between secularism and religion.

Samuel Thernstrom testifies at a congressional hearing on the EPA's response to air quality issues in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.

What do recent findings in neuroscience tell us about the ability of people to make moral judgments or reasoned decisions? Advances in neuroscience are being used by advocates to guide public policy on a broad range of moral and ethical issues. Is this new approach really a step forward? This...

How will religion affect the future of America and the West in the twenty-first century and beyond?