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Social and Cultural Studies

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In the Spotlight

Resident Scholar
Sally Satel, M.D.

"Bioethics today is a field with widely divergent understandings of itself. . . . Is it a field of scholarly inquiry, a learned profession, a consultancy, a form of policymaking or activism, an oversight apparatus that monitors researchers and physicians, a discourse, a project, or a collection of questions or issues? What training should a bioethicist receive? Should the field take stands on mainstream political issues, such as the war in Iraq, the crisis in Darfur, Abu Ghraib? Are bioethicists excessively beholden to the institutions that they serve?"

--Sally Satel, M.D., in an article in Policy Review, February/March 2010

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Recent Publications

The Way of the Whigs?

By Henry Olsen
National Review
Monday, February 22, 2010

Lincoln's first political party dissolved, and so could today's Republicans.

Trimming the Fat

By Karlyn Bowman
Forbes.com
Monday, February 8, 2010

Polls suggest Americans prefer personal responsibility to punitive taxes in combating the obesity problem.

Why Are Liberals So Condescending?

By Gerard Alexander
Washington Post
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Liberal confidence and its companion disdain for conservative thinking comes in the form of four major narratives about who conservatives are and how they think and function.

AEI People and Programs, February 5, 2010

By AEI Staff
AEI People and Programs
Friday, February 5, 2010

This edition of People and Programs covers the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, Google's decision to pull out of China, breakthrough leadership in schools, and the Medicaid program.

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Books

The Battle (forthcoming) How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future

By Arthur C. Brooks
Basic Books
(May 2010)

Free enterprise embodies the values that define us as a nation: individual liberty, equal opportunity, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. But the recent economic crisis has distorted these values.

Education Unbound The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling

By Frederick M. Hess
ASCD
(February 2010)

Frederick M. Hess introduces the concept of "greenfield schooling" and its potential to free-up schools to be more responsive to communities and kids.

The Science on Women and Science

Edited By Christina Hoff Sommers
AEI Press
(November 2009)

This volume is a is a lively, readable, and balanced collection of articles by distinguished scholars from both sides of an often-contentious debate over the complex relationship between gender and vocation.

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Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

Diane Ravitch’s The Death and Life of the Great American School System

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM