AEI's Henry Wendt Scholar Nicholas Eberstadt wins the prestigious Bradley Prize

In "Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II," Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman describes how the U.S. won history’s greatest conflict by harnessing free market principles and private-sector creativity and innovation to increase war production.

The Nobel Peace Prize is the world’s most prestigious award, as Jay Nordlinger argues in this erudite and insightful history. He has written not only the go-to reference book for the prize and its laureates but also an important philosophical reflection on the nature of “peace” in modern times.

The following is a letter to the editor in response to an April 8 op-ed in The Financial Times on the possibility of countries opting to leave the eurozone.

The decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama was an extension of European policy that champions consensus over achievement, but while Obama is still rhetorically European, he will continue to act as an American.

Awarding President Obama the Nobel prize, while shocking to many, is merely the logical extension of European, particularly Nordic/Scandinavian, policy for at least the last two decades: as long as one appears to care and says the right things, it does not matter if you do anything useful.

Did President Obama deserve the prize? If it is to recognize a record of accomplishment, then he does not.

In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the accomplishment-free Mr. Obama, the Norwegian parliamentarians who voted were not so much recognizing the young president so much as they were honoring themselves and their own timid foreign-policy creed.