AEI This Week
Sep 26, 2020
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
Virtue, necessity, and the Supreme Court vacancy
 
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Yuval Levin describes two potential ways to make some virtue of necessity and to account for the long-term needs of our constitutional system alongside the shorter-term priorities of party politics.
 
 
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Ending China’s choke hold on rare-earth minerals
 
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It is possible, with sustained emphasis, to disentangle from China the supply chains essential to US national security, writes Kori Schake. It isn’t simple, and it isn’t cheap. But America can afford to defend itself, and deepening cooperation with allies will provide the ability to do so.  
 
 
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My father's relationship with Justice Ginsburg
 
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Christopher Scalia writes that a healthy republic requires citizens to debate issues forcefully and peacefully; a healthy society needs citizens to remember that political disagreement need not turn friends into enemies.
 
 
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Prologue to 'The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation'
 
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Lynne Cheney’s new book details how the intersecting lives of America’s first four Virginia presidents altered the course of our nation’s early history.
 
 
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Unemployment is improving far faster than projected — unlike after the Great Recession
 
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Unemployment remains historically high, and the recovery still has a long way to go. But thankfully current unemployment rates suggest the job market is bouncing back far faster than experts predicted it would just a few months ago, writes Matt Weidinger.
 
 
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Has the Paycheck Protection Program succeeded?
 
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R. Glenn Hubbard and Michael Strain present evidence that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has substantially increased small businesses’ employment, financial health, and survival. While their findings are informative, they believe it is too early to issue conclusive judgment on PPP’s success.
 
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