Remembered byPaul W. McCracken, Robert H. Bork, Irving Kristol, and Michael Novak.

Competition of ideas is fundamental to a free society. A free society, if it is to remain free, cannot permit itself to be dominated by one strain of thought.--William J. Baroody, Sr., 1916–1980

The 1980 recipient of the Francis Boyer award, William J. Baroody, Sr.,...

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Past Award Recipients

1977 Gerald R. Ford1978 Arthur F. Burns1979 Paul Johnson1980 William J. Baroody,...

Arthur C. Brooks has been chosen by theAmerican Enterprise Institute'sBoard of Trustees to be the Institute'seleventh president.

The eminent social scientist and writer Charles Murray has been selected to receive the American Enterprise Institute's Irving Kristol Award for 2009.

At AEI's annual dinner, President Bush delivered a historic address on the need for a new government in Iraq and the role it could play in spreading democracy in the Middle East.

Allan H. Meltzer received AEI's...

The renowned historian Bernard Lewis has been selected to receive the American Enterprise Institute's Irving Kristol Award for 2007.

Norman Podhoretz has been selected to receive the American Enterprise Institute's Francis Boyer Award for 2002.