If Harvard acts with integrity and empathy, it can begin to restore confidence that has been badly shaken. If it hides behind legalese or delay, it will confirm what many already suspect: that the nation’s oldest university has lost its legitimacy. The post Harvard’s Chance to Get It Right appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Democracy depends not only on elections or debates, but on the daily habits of care our institutions cultivate. Those habits must be practiced. And they begin, often, with something as small as a child asking his father for money; not for himself, but for someone he may never meet. The post Teaching Democracy, One Walk at a Time appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Countless lawsuits filed against online media companies and blaming them for all manner of harms raise important questions about human agency, causation, blame shifting, and the power of speech.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Silicon Valley’s race toward artificial superintelligence is fueled by boundless ambition and massive capital investment. But economics keeps whispering an inconvenient truth to the Singularity-obsessed techies: The work of even the smartest machine is chained to its slowest task. The post The Speed Limit on the Singularity appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
A healthy democracy depends on those same habits: patience, attention, and stewardship. A society that forgets how to slow down—how to gather, deliberate, and give thanks—risks losing the capacity for self-government. The post Finding America in a Brooklyn Etrog Market appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
It appears that AUKUS has cleared its Pentagon review. But passing review is not the finish line, it is the starting gun. The Trump administration can now step on the gas pedal and deliver on this partnership that promises to reshape deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. The post AUKUS Seems to Have Passed Review: Now It’s Time to Accelerate appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Senator Elizabeth Warren recently criticized 100 percent bonus depreciation as a costly, ineffective policy that disproportionately benefits large corporations. The OBBBA was by no means a perfect bill, but lawmakers were right to permanently extend 100 percent bonus depreciation and should work to expand it. The post Senator Warren Is Wrong About Bonus Depreciation appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
There's no obvious statutory basis for a federal agency conditioning access to higher ed funding on a sweeping list of arbitrary demands. The post Trump Administration’s Higher Ed Compact: Admirable Impulse, Bad Policy appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
When the science police don't understand the science they are policing The post Bunk from the Brink appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The FCC has run its course. Congress should dissolve the agency, shed outdated regulatory functions, transfer what remains to competent homes, and assign spectrum management to a technical body free of partisan manipulation. Chairman Carr should lead the charge. The post It’s Time to Disband the Federal Communications Commission appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The new loan limits in OBBB can move the needle back towards more reasonable tuition costs and debt burdens. The post The “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is Already Bringing Down Tuition appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
As Republicans in Congress raced to approve their tax-and-spending-program megabill before July 4th, the financial viability of the nation’s rural hospitals emerged as a potential obstacle to final passage. The GOP’s solution—a new rural health transformation (RHT) program—may prove more effective at protecting incumbent legislators than improving the financial outlook of rural hospitals. The post The Megabill’s Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program appeared first on American ...| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The cure for America’s housing crisis isn’t government subsidies or corporate scapegoats. It’s more homes. Tobias Peter of the AEI Housing Center and economists at Goldman Sachs have both recently argued that affordability has collapsed because supply hasn’t kept up. The post Housing Affordability? Build, Baby, Build appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Phone bans are simple, relatively small measures, but their effects are profound. They give kids space to breathe, to stumble, to recover, and to grow. And in doing so, they return something fragile but essential: the gift of childhood itself. The post Give Kids Back the Gift of Mistakes appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Judge Burroughs’ recent decision is a ringing affirmation of freedom of speech and the rule of law. In the long term, however, only a robust culture of free speech, embraced by both sides, can preserve these values. The post Federal Court Affirms Freedom of Speech and the Rule of Law–but Challenges Remain appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Earlier this week, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) held a hearing on “Quiet Skies,” a watch-listing program that is credibly alleged to have been used for doling out political penalties and favors to travelers while catching zero terrorists. The post A Quiet Skies After-Action Report and Extension of My Remarks appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
One could imagine an AGI world presenting two dilemmas. The first is political: how to design taxes, transfers, or even some sort of shared ownership of computing capacity. The second is human: how to find meaning and structure in our lives when economic logic says we “won’t be missed.” The post AI’s Possible Endgame: Lots of Growth Without Many Workers appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
As usual, parts of the US business community will do almost anything for a few years of profits. Only now it’s not steel, household goods, cars, or even telecom, it’s semiconductors. And it’s not a friend we’re giving way to, it’s China. The post Which Way for Export Controls on China? appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Without a clear plan that combines domestic innovation with global leadership, the US risks letting others set the rules in the digital financial world. The post The SEC’s Digital Asset Pivot Comes Late in a Global Financial Arms Race appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
France, whose public finances have become unsustainable and whose politics have become dysfunctional, could pose an existential threat to the Euro. Being the Eurozone’s second-largest economy and being many times the size of Greece, France is too big to fail if the Euro is to survive. The post France’s Threat to the Euro appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau might or might not have a better plan for preserving the humanitarian essence of asylum while curbing its abuses. He is right about the need for fundamental change, and given the wide agreement on that basic point, there is reason to hope change is coming. The post The Surprising New Consensus on Asylum Reform appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
As Jews gather to fast and pray, the rest of the nation might pause and learn. Imagine if each of us confessed one fault, forgave one grievance, and renewed one commitment to better behavior. Our families would be stronger, our communities more resilient, and our civic life more humane. The post A Day of Reset: Yom Kippur, Forgiveness, and the Courage to Begin Again appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The inefficient health care sector has grown too large over time, is being funded by growing federal deficits, these deficits are driving down net exports, and the deficits are dangerous and harmful. The correct policy solution therefore is to significantly increase the efficiency of the health care sector. The post Alternative Macroeconomic Views appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The US Supreme Court’s June ruling in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton wasn’t the first in which the Court avoided applying strict scrutiny to uphold regulations affecting non-obscene, lawful sexual expression. The post Par for the Judicial Course: Reducing Scrutiny of Laws Targeting Lawful Sexual Content appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Democracy depends on words, not weapons. If we fail to defend that principle now, we will pay a steep price later. Campuses must once again be places where ideas clash fiercely but peacefully and where even the most offensive speech is met not with violence, but with better arguments.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
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The Department of Defense and Congress need to understand the depths of the issues that are holding back America’s ability to regain the level of technological dominance necessary to maintain deterrence or prevail in a war if deterrence fails. The following twelve problem areas are offered to begin to frame that understanding.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
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President Donald Trump announced tariffs on practically every foreign country (and some non-countries), ranging from a 10 percent minimum all the way up to 50 percent. He described the tariffs as reciprocal; however, they are nothing of the sort.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
The mental health professions today are home to therapists who are overwhelmingly female, liberal, and politically aware. As self-declared enemies of privilege, they are primed to imbibe the social justice narrative and accept it as the proper objective of therapy.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
The United States should strive toward an energy system with fewer barriers to innovation and more opportunities for consumers to access affordable and dependable power systems, decide how and when they consume (and produce) the electricity they want and need, and invest in the solutions that bring them the greatest value.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
DeepSeek's rise underscores the importance of American investment in artificial intelligence.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
As I wrote in the summer of 2018 on CD, I’ve probably created and posted more than 3,000 graphics on CD, Twitter, and Facebook including charts, graphs, tables, figures, maps, and Venn diagrams over the last 15 years. Of all of those graphics, I don’t think any has gotten more attention, links, re-Tweets, re-posts, and […]| American Enterprise Institute - AEI