In an event co-hosted by AEI and the Center for American Progress, Rick Hess and Raegan Miller will discuss their views on what particular changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will allow it to fulfill its aims without causing educators and local officials legal headaches.

Almost everything you hear at graduations - and read on the internet, and watch on television - focuses on the idea of work, especially entrepreneurship, as a means of self-expression and (to use the term from David Brooks) self-actualization.

Peter Wallison on new regulations based on the bogus belief that the cause of the financial crisis was the interconnectedness of financial institutions.

The financial crisis was caused not by Lehman’s failure but by a common shock to all financial institutions that were holding privately issued mortgage-backed securities based on subprime loans. The way to prevent future financial crises is to prevent future common shocks.

The cost of healthcare to society is important, but protecting the doctor-patient relationship is paramount.

Involuntary commitment is bound to raise some apprehensions and there are serious questions about how it should be implemented, but there are horrible costs to the policy our society has been following.

Energy discussions must start with a realization that abundant, affordable energy is mandatory, and a realistic discussion about how we get that energy includes an honest appraisal of costs, trade-offs, and the potential for unintended consequences.

Elena Kagan, President Obama's choice to replace Justice John Paul Steves on the Supreme Court, adopts the lazy conventional liberalism of the faculty lounge.