Will Polar Bear Protection Mean Ever-Higher Energy Costs?
Monday, June 9, 2008
Panelists discuss the possible impact of the polar bear's recent classification as an endangered species on energy costs.

The Insanity Offense: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
Book Forum
Monday, June 9, 2008
Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey discusses his book The Insanity Offense; a panel of specialists will comment.

The Challenge of Reforming Urban Schools
An Address by New York City Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Please join us as Chancellor Klein reflects on his tenure and offers lessons for efforts to dramatically improve the nation’s urban schools. 

Can India Afford to Be a Great Power?
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Will the national bureaucracy shed its legendary inefficiencies and mitigate corruption? Will the Indian armed forces procure the weaponry and talent necessary to field a fully modern force?

Geoengineering: A Revolutionary Approach to Climate Change
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Is geoengineering feasible? What do scientists know about it--and what do they need to learn if we want to have the option of deploying these technologies in an emergency?

Is China Taking Unfair Advantage of Its Trade Partners?
Monday, June 2, 2008
Panelists at this seminar will offer perspectives on how a new U.S. administration should approach U.S.-Chinese trade relations.

Tax Policy Lessons from the 2000s
Friday, May 30, 2008
AEI has commissioned leading public finance scholars to study and describe the lessons learned since 2000 in seven important areas of tax policy.

Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs: Medicine, Law, and Policy
AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
At this AEI Legal Center event, experts on both law and health care will present papers on the law, economics, medicine, and public policy of off-label marketing.

Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?
Thursday, May 15, 2008
To advance discussion on the question “Does science make belief in God obsolete?” AEI will host a dialogue between William D. Phillips, the 1997 Nobel laureate in physics, and Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine.

What Lies Beyond the Credit Crunch? Part II
Monday, April 28, 2008
The panelists will provide their assessments of the present and future of the financial markets and the economy and will identify what--if anything--policymakers should do.