AEI This Week
Feb 27, 2021
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
Germany is a flash point in the US-China cold war
 
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Twenty20
 
US officials would surely like Germany and Europe to rally quickly to America’s side. Hal Brands explains that, in reality, uniting the free world against a new authoritarian rival will itself be a long, hard campaign.
 
 
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Biden’s stimulus risks shortening the recovery
 
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Overheating is not a certainty. It is a risk. But it could lead to truncating the length of the expansion — and excluding lower-wage workers from its full benefits. That risk is not worth taking, writes Michael Strain.
 
 
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Lone whistleblower takes on the woke racists at Smith College
 
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Jodi Shaw’s resignation reveals how campus illiberalism can be beaten — and why it’s so difficult to overcome in the first place, explains Frederick Hess.
 
 
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What I learned in an Iranian prison
 
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US foreign policy isn’t to blame for the mullahs’ deep-rooted hatred of America and Americans, writes Wang Xiyue.
 
 
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Fix family poverty with free markets, for once
 
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Naomi Schaefer Riley and Angela Rachidi explain that genuine free-market reforms could address poverty and make it easier to raise a family in this country. Just give these reforms a chance.
 
 
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Modeling protection from COVID-19 based on vaccine supply and administration rates
 
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Reuters
 
The US can emerge from the depths of the COVID-19 crisis in the coming months if the federal government leads and executes an effective vaccination campaign, write Kieran Allsop, James Capretta, and Scott Ganz.
 
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