3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (415+ words) Boosting economic growth in any sort of sustained way is really hard. The American public should always be skeptical of policy ideas promising to, say, add a full percentage point to real GDP growth, or anything close. First, a full…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (116+ words) American Enterprise Institute - AEI Can a Depopulating America Still Flourish? Can America continue to prosper even if it veers into an indefinite period of depopulation? The question is not as outlandish as you might think. For the first time in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (176+ words) AEI’s Nick Eberstadt told the RCP podcast on Tuesday that President Trump’s renewed interest in talks with Kim Jong Un is coming at a time when North Korea’s strategic position is better than it has been since the end of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (107+ words) There are too many reasons to list that explain why California has become a basket case of governance. But the most persuasive one of all may be that California is awesome, or, in the parlance of the state, totally awesome....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1763+ words) Below is a lightly edited and abridged transcript of our discussion. You can listen to this and other episodes of Explain to Shane on AEI.org and subscribe via your preferred listening platform. If you enjoyed this episode, leave us…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (357+ words) Happy Thursday! In today’s newsletter, we examine changes in socialization trends across American neighborhoods, the politics of artificial intelligence regulation, and the political impacts of Virginia’s redistricting vote. Don’t forget—subscribe and send DataPoints to a friend! Edited by Brady…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (127+ words) Read more at The Atlantic. Robert P. George, Nonresident Senior Fellow First Amendment Watch spoke with legal scholar and political philosopher Robert George about free speech in college classrooms and talking across differences. BY Robert P. George ON 29 Jun 26 Harvard University's Jon…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (419+ words) In The Sun Also Rises, when one of Hemmingway’s characters was asked how he went bankrupt, he replied “first gradually and then suddenly”. As 30-year US bond yields climb to their highest level since 2007 in response to the country’s unsustainable…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (741+ words) For years “The Republic of Science” was a core reading on my graduate syllabus for my seminar on science and technology policy. Polanyi was useful for several reasons. In this post I draw on my colleagues’ presentations and our discussions…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (599+ words) My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in the USA and around the world: My working political assumption, however, is that the digital die has been already cast. Even if we’re still short of “you’ll know it when you see…...