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Sunday, November 8, 2009
 
 
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Culture and Society
 

One of the biggest challenges facing modern society is the maintenance of a culture in which virtue flourishes in tandem with freedom and material progress. This section of the website gathers together AEI research, books, and events focused on culture and society.

 
Feature: Duty and Virtue

In an exchange on AEI's Enterprise Blog on the meaning of virtue and duty today, Charles Murray and Leon R. Kass, M.D., lament the fustiness of those once proud words and call for their restoration as properly understood. Visit the Enterprise Blog by clicking here.

 
 
 
 
AEI People and Programs, October 30, 2009
 
This issue covers the health care debate, the Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index, the swine flu and more.
 
When Politics and Baseball Collide
 
What do you do when the party affiliation of a president affects your favorite sports team?
 
 
We the People The Story of Our Constitution
 
America had won the Revolution, but our troubles were far from over. Was our country, which had fought so hard for its independence, going to survive?  
 
Why Groups Go to Extremes
 
Cass R. Sunstein argues that the key to preventing the spread of extremist views is ensuring that like-minded groups encounter a diversity of opinions within civil society.  
 
Fighting Words A Tale of How Liberals Created Neo-Conservatism
 
Replete with stories never told before, Fighting Words is Wattenberg's firsthand account of the remarkable transformation of American politics over the last four decades.  
 
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
 
 
P. J. Hill, the George F. Bennett Professor of Economics at Wheaton College, will discuss the theology of human nature, humanity's relationship...
 
 
Peter Berkowitz will deliver the November Bradley Lecture.
 
 
 
PAST EVENTS
 
 
Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has grown fivefold--a rate unprecedented in American history. Is there an alternative to incarceration?
 
 
Marvin Olasky will discuss the false dichotomy between freedom and justice and offer his ideas on reconciling these aims.