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AEI Banter Podcast

AEI Banter Podcast

Banter is AEI’s weekly podcast series, where hosts Robert Doar and Phoebe Keller interview leading thinkers and political commentators on a wide range of policy topics. True to its name, Banter keeps the conversation fun, entertaining, and interesting for anyone with an interest politics and policy.

What The Hell Podcast

What The Hell Podcast

AEI’s Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen address the questions we’re all asking in their podcast, “What the Hell Is Going On?” In conversational, informative, and irreverent episodes, Pletka and Thiessen interview policymakers and experts, asking tough, probing questions about the most important foreign policy and security challenges facing the world today.

The Report Card Podcast

The Report Card Podcast

The Report Card with Nat Malkus is a hub for discussing innovative work to improve education and the lives of America’s children.

Hardly Working Podcast

Hardly Working Podcast

Whether you are working hard or hardly working, join AEI Resident Fellow Brent Orrell as he talks about national trends and public policies affecting the vitality of the American workforce, and learn how to prepare yourself for success in our rapidly-changing economy.

Political Economy Podcast

Political Economy Podcast

Tune in each week as James Pethokoukis interviews economists, business leaders, academics and others on the most important and interesting issues of the day. Highly recommended for the optimistic and the intellectually curious!

Unprecedential Podcast

Unprecedential Podcast

What does it mean to be a Constitutional Republic? Join host Adam White and his guests as they examine the roles of Congress, the president, the courts, and many other American institutions in keeping a republic.

Are You Kidding Me Podcast

Are You Kidding Me Podcast

Sometimes the very strategies meant to help children have the opposite effect. Join AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley and Ian Rowe as they look behind the headlines at the public policies and cultural agendas driving child welfare and education. Rowe and Riley bring to light practices that will make you ask, “Are you kidding me?”

Common Ground Podcast

Common Ground Podcast

AEI Education’s Rick Hess and USC Rossier School of Education Dean Pedro Noguera, who often fall on different sides of the ideological aisle, push past posturing and polarization to search for understanding and common ground when it comes to the nation’s toughest education questions. Each month, the two talk through the pressing education issues of the moment.

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

In “The Remnant,” Jonah Goldberg enlists a “Cannonball Run”-style cast to address the most pressing issues of the day and of all-time. Mixing history, pop culture, rank-punditry, and political philosophy, Goldberg and guests will have the kinds of conversations we wish they had on cable-TV shout shows.

Explain to Shane Podcast

Explain to Shane Podcast

On “Explain to Shane,” AEI’s Shane Tews interviews experts to discuss the intersection of technology and public policy — and how the apps, services, and structures of today’s information technology system shape our social and economic lives. Episodes are released every other Tuesday and past episodes can be found below.

National Affairs Podcast

National Affairs Podcast

Hosts Daniel Wiser and Daniel Kane sit down with the authors of National Affairs essays to discuss pivotal issues — from domestic-policy debates to enduring dilemmas of society and culture — that are often overlooked by American media.

On the Cusp Podcast

On the Cusp Podcast

On the Cusp focuses on how governments, business, and civil society can work together to strengthen countries’ defence against existing and emerging threats. Each episode she interviews a guest who is a leader in their respective field.

Understanding Congress Podcast

Understanding Congress Podcast

Congress is the least liked and perhaps least understood part of government. But it’s vital to our constitutional government. Congress is the only branch equipped to work through our diverse nation’s disagreements and decide on the law. To better understand the First Branch, join host Kevin Kosar and guests as they explain its infrastructure, culture, procedures, history, and more.

The Campus Exchange: an AEI for Students Podcast

The Campus Exchange: an AEI for Students Podcast

The Campus Exchange is AEI’s podcast for college students who are seeking to improve the quality and diversity of public policy dialogue on campus. Every two weeks, The Campus Exchange features recordings from live events with AEI scholars on topics ranging from economics, foreign policy, domestic policy, and society and culture.

An Economist Goes to College Podcast

An Economist Goes to College Podcast

Economist and scholar Beth Akers seeks to inform aspiring students about how to make strategic decisions about their higher education. Speaking on topics like how to use data to shop for college or non-college alternatives, how to utilize the student loan system to your advantage, and more, Beth cuts through the romanticism we often attach to college decision making and teaches listeners how to make decisions that are grounded in data and fact.

The Hangover with Chris Stirewalt

The Hangover with Chris Stirewalt

The Hangover with Chris Stirewalt is a limited-run seven-episode podcast that aims to explain what went wrong in 2020 for the GOP and how it got here after winning it all in 2016.

AEI Events Podcast

AEI Events Podcast

AEI hosts over 200 events each year with leading thinkers, politicians, newsmakers, and scholars. Listen each week to the full conversations, debates, and speeches hosted by AEI scholars.

Bradley Lectures Podcast

Bradley Lectures Podcast

The Bradley Lecture Series podcast, hosted by Jackson Wolford, introduces listeners to a series of lectures at the American Enterprise Institute which aimed to enrich debate in the Washington policy community through exploration of the philosophical and historical underpinnings of current controversies.

TechEnabled Podcast

TechEnabled Podcast

Ever wondered how Silicon Valley and Washington, DC might work together? In a new AEI podcast, Tech Enabled, John Bailey and his guests dive into the subjects of technology, public policy, and economic opportunity to discover how data and smart federal and local policy can work hand-in-hand to promote thriving communities.