It's worth paying attention when a prominent member of Congress diagnoses the impulse to remake Congress in the image of a European parliament and instead proposes some serious Madisonian solutions, writes Yuval Levin.
Milton Friedman’s admonition 50 years ago that the modern corporation should maximize shareholder value remains controversial. R. Glenn Hubbard and Sanjai Bhagat argue that under certain broad assumptions, the admonition remains a good place to start.
Whether districts set high expectations for students and teachers and for making the connections between them will play a significant role in determining whether students can make progress with markedly better remote learning this fall or fall further behind during another season of emergency learning, writes Nat Malkus.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed vast numbers of people, devastated the world economy, and threatened the fabric of politics around the world, explain Hal Brands and Francis Gavin. What will a post-COVID-19 world order look like?
Angela Rachidi writes that without childcare, many parents will find it difficult to remain in the labor force. And that spells trouble for the broader economy in the long term.
Yuval Levin welcomed Princeton University's Robert P. George and philosopher Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks for a discussion about Rabbi Lord Sacks’ new book, “Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times” (Basic Books, 2020). This is the inaugural event of the “E pluribus unum: Sources of our unity” lecture series, cosponsored by AEI, the University of Dallas, and the Robert P. George Initiative on Faith, Ethics, and Public Policy.
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