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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
 
 
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Social and Cultural Studies
 

AEI's research is informed by the understanding that freedom and prosperity depend on healthy social institutions. This section of the website gathers together AEI research, books, and events focused on social and cultural studies.

 
In the Spotlight

"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

 

 

 

Publications


 
 
 
 
The Way of the Whigs?
 
Lincoln's first political party dissolved, and so could today's Republicans.
 
Trimming the Fat
 
Polls suggest Americans prefer personal responsibility to punitive taxes in combating the obesity problem.
 
Why Are Liberals So Condescending?
 
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
 
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.
 
 
The Battle (forthcoming) How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
 
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
 
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
 
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.  
 
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
 
 
Diane Ravitch will discuss her new book "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education."
 
 
Please note this event will take place in Denver, Colorado.
 
 
 
PAST EVENTS
 
 
This event has been canceled due to current weather conditions.
 
 
This conference will be the first in a series devoted to examining the place of neuroscience in our understanding of the human person.