President Barack Obama has been on a tour of college campuses touting proposals to lower student loan repayments for college graduates. He hopes to rekindle the enthusiasm of young voters, who in 2008 favored him over Sen. John McCain by more than two-to-one.

Ironically, these same young Americans...

In mid-September 2011, as part of AEI’s Program on American Citizenship, we celebrated Constitution Day. In conjunction with that remembrance, we thought it appropriate to honor our longtime colleague and friend Walter Berns with a panel dedicated to discussing his scholarship on the Constitution and the American regime it supports.

A neuroscientist recalls how a host of substances took over his life and how, at last, he learned to impose new patterns of thought and behavior.

Abraham Lincoln was the greatest of our presidents. He saved the Union, which made it possible for him to free the slaves. But he did more than this; without him we probably would have had no reason to celebrate the bicentennial first of the Declaration of Independence and then of...

Jewish students at York University are required to subordinate or disguise their identity, suppress their views, and avoid cultural expression.

Canada's York university has chosen to limit the speech of pro-Israel students while allowing anti-Israel student events to proceed without restraint.

The European and American media has recently been rife with dramatic surmises about the possible significance of the impact of Leo Strauss’s political theory on contemporary American political culture and policy. However, journalists who have recently been moved to theorize in print about Strauss’s teaching seemingly have not devoted much...