AEI This Week
Jan 16, 2021
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
Grievance politics is a dead-end road
 
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The ease with which so many Republicans and supposedly conservative thought leaders have parroted Donald Trump's specious election fraud stories underscores a deeper problem: the all-out embrace of grievance politics, which is the rhetorical and epistemological cornerstone of Trumpism, explains Ryan Streeter.
 
 
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Prospects for US-Iran relations at the start of the Biden administration
 
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The Joe Biden administration’s best approach will be to pursue complementary near- and long-term strategies simultaneously to bring Iran back into compliance with the limits on its nuclear program, writes Kenneth Pollack.
 
 
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Exodus and American nationhood
 
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Leon Kass explains that the story of the Israelites shows that peoples are formed by shared ideals of justice and aspirations for the future.
 
 
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Inflation is coming. That might even be a problem.
 
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Prices rising faster than the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target would be welcome, but too much price growth could be a problem. If that happens, the Federal Reserve could be in a bind, writes Michael Strain.
 
 
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China’s coming global investment recovery: How far will it go?
 
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COVID-19 had the expected impact on China’s documented global investment and construction in 2020, forcing deep declines. Derek Scissors explains that a powerful recovery will materialize at some point this year and likely continue into 2022.
 
 
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Where conservatives should lead on federal education policy in 2021
 
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Michael McShane writes that conservatives have an opportunity to play a productive role in federal education policymaking. They have to do more than just say no.
 
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