Excerpts from a Bradley Lecture by Reason magazine's Charles Paul Freund.

In theMiddle East,commercialism that does not transmit a regime's utopian dreams but addresses the personal dreams of the audience might serve to propell liberal values forward.

In his lecture, Freund refers to examples of Arab music videos. To download and view those examples, please visit: http://www.aei.org/arabMusicVideos/

The Middle East has gone through a century of failed utopian political schemes, yet none have succeeded in breaking the region's cycle of conflict and stagnation. What...

Fred Siegel delivered the December 2011 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

In the second edition of "Women's Figures," author Diana Furchtgott-Roth shatters the myth of the wage gap, alleging that women are continuing to gain ground relative to men. Preferential policies towards women are undermining America's notion of meritocracy and are actually calling into question the value of women's earned achievements.

In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important.

Are teachers paid too much? It's a question that would ignite heated debate at the most mellow of cocktail parties. But it's a question that AEI took head-on this year.

Under the banner of the American Educational Research Association, roughly 20,000 researchers will convene in Vancouver to report on research that can help fuel student learning and improve schools. If only they knew what wasn't enough.