It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Losing money is embarrassing. And an embarrassed Jamie Dimon publicly admitted that J.P. Morgan Chase goofed. Three senior executives lost their jobs as a result. But politicians and regulators in Washington are rushing to leverage the bank's misfortune for their own gain.

Resident Scholar Frederick M. Hess Wracked by low achievement, abysmal dropout rates and plunging enrollment, the Detroit Public Schools have spent years struggling...

Online registration for this event is closed. Walk-in registrations will be accepted.

Note the different starting time . . . 6:00 p.m.!

Join us as our lively ensemble returns to the “Cultural Evenings” with readings from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. James Bowman, resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy...

Can political art fully satisfy the claims of truth and beauty? Or is it fatally compromised by the passionate desire to persuade? Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal offers a report from the front lines of the increasing politicization of art in twenty-first century America, and the growing inclination...

The Occupiers are right about American incomes: They've definitely grown more unequal. But this fact presents three inconvenient truths for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Scott Gottlieb reviews Eric Topol's book on how medical innovation will coalesce to change clinical practice and what the coming changes mean for today's policy debates.

In the latest Asian Outlook, AEI research assistant Dale Swartz examines the Chinese government's vigorous response to domestic unrest in the wake of the "Arab Spring" -- the revolutionary movements for democracy happening all over the Middle East.