The American Enterprise Institute's Council of Academic Advisers honors Leon R. Kass, recipient of the Institute's 2012 Irving Kristol Award. The Irving Kristol Award is presented to an individual who has made extraordinary intellectual or practical contributions to improved government policy, social welfare, or...

The American Enterprise Institute's Council of Academic Advisers honors Martin Feldstein, recipient of the Institute's 2011 Irving Kristol Award.

The American Enterprise Institute's Council of Academic Advisers honors General David H. Petraeus, recipient of the Institute's 2010 Irving Kristol Award. The Irving Kristol Award is presented to an individual who has made extraordinary intellectual or practical contributions to improved government policy,...

We need to understand more clearly thatour accomplishments and virtues have their source in the institutions designed by our Founding Fathers.

Today, as in the past, we will need a brave civic virtue, not a timid civility, to keep our republic.

Text of Podhoretz's lectureNorman Podhoretz receives the Francis Boyer Award and delivers the Francis Boyer Lecture at AEI's annual dinner.

The Francis Boyer Award, awarded annually by AEI's Council of Academic Advisers, recognizes individuals who have made exceptional practical or scholarly contributions to improved government policy...

Today's most serious problems are in important respects the result of our prosperity--the characteristic problems of a super-affluent, mass-upper-middle-class society.

Text of Thomas's lecture

Justice Clarence Thomas receives the Francis Boyer Award and delivers the Francis Boyer Lecture at AEI's annual dinner.

The Francis Boyer Award, awarded annually by AEI's Council of Academic Advisers, recognizes individuals who have made exceptional practical or scholarly contributions to improved government policy...