The West’s Gaza: The Start of a Long Struggle?
By Jonah Goldberg | No one in the West wants a long struggle with jihadism. The problem is the enemy always gets a vote. The hawks (including me) were wrong about a lot, but some got one thing right. It’s going to be a long war. In the early days after 9/11 there was a lot of talk about a “clash of civilizations…”
FTU Course: Can You Walk with Malala?
By Publius | Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani girl who gained world attention by daring to blog about life in a place where freedom and life is threatened. Now she has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Can you walk in her shoes?
The Best that Love Can Do: A Manifesto of Optimism
By George Grant | As affecting as is the image of terrorists crashing into buildings in an effort to take as many lives as possible, the image of firemen rushing into those same buildings in an effort to save as many lives as possible is more affecting still. The worst that evil can do is no match for the…
Tax Inversions Help, Rather Than Hurt, the Economy
By Diana Furchtgott-Roth | Drugmaker Shire, based in Dublin, is in the process of being bought by AbbVie for $55 billion in a tax-inversion acquisition. We’ve all heard the statistics. More American multinational companies are merging with foreign corporations and moving their headquarters offshore to…
New FTU Course: Is Our Idea of Success Making Us Poor?
Is the American Dream stealing the soul of our nation? J.A.K. Smith, Paul Piff, and others dig into the heart of how we define success. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing…
The Minimum Wage Can Never Be High Enough
By Ike Brannon | The minimum wage is a facile non-solution for the complicated problem of poverty in America. While waiting in line at my local grocery store in Washington, D.C., the other night, I eavesdropped on two thirty-something store employees discussing the $15 minimum wage that recently took…
Entrepreneurship for Flourishing: Chris Horst / Peter Greer
AEI’s Values and Capitalism program just released a new book titled “Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing.” In it, the authors, Chris Horst and Peter Greer, argue that entrepreneurial businesses, “which sustain productive development long after charitable giving dries up,” are the real engine of true…
Give Me a Better Grade Because I Deserve It
By Ronald Lipsman | The grades I just issued in my post-calculus, differential equations course – a sophomore math offering taken mostly by engineering students—followed the usual bell-shaped curve, roughly 10% A’s, 20% B’s, 40% C’s, 20% D’s and 10% F’s. The complaints came more from the D students than…
Whatever Happened to Global Warming?
By Matt Ridley | Now come climate scientists’ implausible explanations for why the ‘hiatus’ has passed the 15-year mark. On Sept. 23 the United Nations will host a party for world leaders in New York to pledge urgent action against climate change. Yet leaders from China, India and Germany have already…