Former US Attorney General William P. Barr joined AEI President Robert Doar for a conversation about Mr. Barr's new book, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General (William Morrow, 2022). Mr. Barr spoke bluntly about the serious challenges he faced while serving under President Donald Trump and the proper roles of the Justice Department and the president in the criminal justice system.

On Wednesday, Jim Harper testified before the Senate against the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act, which would mandate social media platforms to disclose their security and moderation policies to the government. He believes these requirements could compromise the privacy and security of the platforms and their users. 

Speaking on a Federalist Society panel, Paul H. Kupiec challenged the Biden administration's plans to use its financial regulatory authority to impose limits on businesses' carbon emissions. "Common sense suggests that such rules invite arbitrary and capricious exercises of power," he said, "and indeed the courts have upheld this common sense view."

Mark J. Warshawsky finds that Americans' average retirement age has risen from 62 to 65 over the past 30 years, and similar increases have been widespread across demographic lines. He argues that this shift could have important implications for Medicare and Social Security policy.

In a follow-up to his draft article for the Notre Dame Law Review, J. Joel Alicea continues his defense of originalist jurisprudence in the context of natural law and identifies inconsistencies in the concept of common good constitutionalism.