The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the nation’s founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. In the second symposium of AEI’s “We Hold These Truths: America at 250” project, historians, political scientists, and economists analyze the role that the market economy played in the creation […]

How should Americans think about the writ of habeas corpus? American jurists have long treated it as a bulwark of individual liberty, but new originalist scholarship argues that a more historically faithful understanding of the writ should focus instead on the concept of popular sovereignty. Recent Supreme Court cases have revealed deep confusion over the […]

Join Steven F. Hayward and AEI’s Roger Pielke Jr. as they discuss environmental trends and the exceptional case of climate change, which overshadows almost every other environmental issue.

Join scholars from AEI, the Ethics & Public Policy Center, and other institutions as explore the legacy of “To Empower People” and how the authors’ insights can be applied to cultural challenges in contemporary American life.