Arthur Brooks and Jim Manzi are intellectual heirs to Hayek; they are admirably recapturing old truths handed down from America’s Founders and restating them for today’s generation.

This week, America lost the most influential social scientist of the past 100 years. James Q. Wilson died at the age of 80.

Roger Scruton, Britain's foremost conservative philosopher, offers a traditionalist manifesto to discomfit both the left and American free-marketeers.

The negative reaction to a French proposal to raise the retirement age emphasizes that France is unlikely to escape Europe's new age of austerity and the fundamentally flawed European social welfare state model.

What responsibility does an institution have to the wider community when it has identified a deeply disturbed individual?

I am deeply moved and honored more than I can say by this award from my esteemed colleagues and friends at AEI, and especially because of its association with the name and memory of Irving Kristol, a man for all seasons. Irving Kristol was my teacher, editor, mentor, patron, and...

When rites of passage disappear from public life, civilization does as well, and one result is young men running amok.

The plan presented here represents the collaboration of its four authors and does not reflect the position of the American Enterprise Institute or any other organization. The individual authors do not fully agree with every provision of the plan, but we join in presenting it as a way to address the fiscal imbalance while promoting economic growth.