AEI This Week
Jul 25, 2020
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
Anthropology defines the right
 
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Conservative anthropology points toward both communitarianism and individualism, and the tension between the two emerges in every conservative effort to wrestle with real-world governing challenges, writes Yuval Levin. 
 
 
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Behind the Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention disagreement
 
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The intelligence community has warned for years that pandemic disease was a national security threat on par with terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and cyberattacks. Scott Gottlieb explains that it’s essential to increase American capacity to detect these events, contain them, and manufacture reliable countermeasures.
 
 
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Smithsonian Institution explains that ‘rationality’ and ‘hard work’ are racist
 
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Those such as Frederick Douglass, Oprah Winfrey, and Barack Obama might be surprised that hard work and rational thinking are somehow alien to black culture, write Frederick Hess and RJ Martin. 
 
 
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The defense budget reflects today’s security challenges
 
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Defense budget cuts are political theater that makes politicians feel good for “saving” money but actually reduce security and ultimately prosperity, explains Mackenzie Eaglen.
 
 
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The prosecution never rests
 
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It’s a hard path to ending the politicization of indictments, investigations, and other legal tools, writes Adam White.
 
 
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Making the stimulus checks count: How Congress can better target a second round of economic impact payments
 
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In this report, Angela Rachidi writes that with unemployment rates still at a historic high and the coronavirus surging in many parts of the US, Congress is deliberating another round of economic impact payments similar to those included in the CARES Act.
 
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