American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president Arthur C. Brooks has announced that AEI scholar Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the recipient of AEI’s 2012 Irving Kristol Award. Dr. Kass will receive the award and deliver the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

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In his new book, Paul A. Rahe explores the subtle dangers of "soft despotism" in democracies.

Clifford Orwin, professor of political science at the University of Toronto, delivered the eighth of AEI's 1996-1997 Bradley Lectures on April 14, 1997.

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Editor Allan Bloomhas brought together a group of leading constitutional scholars to discuss, in light of the crumbling of Communism and Socialism around the world, this amazingly durable American document.

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