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Putting Families First: Why Conservatives Need a New Technology Agenda

Feb 16, 2025 | aei.org | Dan Wiser |Howe Whitman |Jon Askonas

Technology is a force for change in the world, both positive and negative. Its ability to rapidly transform our way of life poses an inherent challenge to families. If conservatives wish to restore the family as the foundation of our civilizational order, they must develop a comprehensive theory of technological change. Without it, new technologies will continue to heap disaster on the American family.
Culture of Death: The Troubling Rise of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Sep 29, 2024 | aei.org | Dan Wiser |Howe Whitman |Aaron Rothstein

In a disturbing development, assisted suicide and euthanasia have become more prevalent across the West in recent decades. Government and health authorities are encouraging voluntary death, even for patients who do not suffer from a terminal illness but are afflicted by disabilities, poverty, or loneliness. Guest Aaron Rothstein joins us to discuss the radical assumptions about life, death, and human nature that underlie the practice of euthanasia.
The Cost of America’s Illegal-Immigration Surge

Aug 11, 2024 | aei.org | Dan Wiser |Howe Whitman |Steven A. Camarota

The chaos at the border in recent years has cast into stark relief one of the central issues surrounding illegal immigration: its fiscal costs. Unfortunately, most discussions on the subject tend to be filled with misconceptions, half-truths, and even outright falsehoods. The evidence indicates that illegal immigrants are almost certainly a net drain on our public fisc — but not for the reasons many activists put forth.
The American Founding Has Gone Missing from High-school History Classes

Mar 17, 2024 | aei.org | Dan Wiser |Howe Whitman |Dan Currell

The textbooks most commonly used in high-school history classes are badly deficient. These books, which shape the rising generation’s perception of the country they are inheriting, often leave out the core ideas that defined the American founding and the nation’s ideals. To recover America’s sense of itself, it’s crucial to teach high-school students the connection between ideas and events.
How to Think about Voting in 2024

Feb 18, 2024 | aei.org | Dan Wiser |Howe Whitman |Bryan McGraw

Voting should be straightforward: Figure out which candidate or party best fits one’s political views or interests, and vote accordingly. But the last few elections have shown many Americans that it’s not nearly that simple. We could benefit from a new framework for thinking about voting, and not just for elections in which we find ourselves especially bewildered. Guest Bryan McGraw joins us to discuss a new philosophy of voting and how to apply it in this year’s elections.
The Uniquely American Classical-Education Movement

Dec 10, 2023 | aei.org | Dan Wiser |Micah Meadowcroft |Howe Whitman

Classical schools are distinctly American. Just as our country was founded both as a modern engineering project and as a recollection of ancient political philosophy and the traditional rights of Englishmen, the contemporary classical-education movement is an act of construction — one might say an invented tradition — seeking to revivify and participate in something that once lived, and perhaps could again.
America’s Party System and the Problem of Union

Nov 5, 2023 | aei.org | Dan Wiser |Howe Whitman |Daniel Stid

What type of party system best suits the American regime? What can we do to cultivate such a party system? Amid the current tumult and polarization of our politics, much of it the result of the degradation of our parties, it behooves us to seek answers to these questions, and to learn from past efforts to give shape to the American party system. Guest Daniel Stid joins us to discuss reforms to the party system that could restore coalition building and union to American politics.
Medicare’s Price Regulations: How the Government Determines What It Pays for Medical Care

Sep 10, 2023 | aei.org | JAMES CAPRETTA |David Bernstein |Dan Wiser |Howe Whitman

Report AEI Economic Perspectives Medicare’s Price Regulations: How the Government Determines What It Pays for Medical Care Podcast Drugs Are Killing More Americans than Ever Before. How Should Policymakers Respond?
Medicare’s Price Regulations: How the Government Determines What It Pays for Medical Care

Sep 10, 2023 | aei.org | JAMES CAPRETTA |David Bernstein |Dan Wiser |Howe Whitman

Report AEI Economic Perspectives Medicare’s Price Regulations: How the Government Determines What It Pays for Medical Care Podcast Drugs Are Killing More Americans than Ever Before. How Should Policymakers Respond?
Drugs Are Killing More Americans than Ever Before. How Should Policymakers Respond?

Sep 10, 2023 | aei.org | Dan Wiser |Howe Whitman |Charles Lehman

Almost nobody is taking America’s drug crisis seriously. We talk about it plenty, but that talk rarely acknowledges what distinguishes today’s drug epidemic from past ones: Those earlier crises inflicted many more or less equally weighty harms — to users’ health, to families, to communities. In this crisis, one problem dwarfs all others: death. Drugs have changed, probably for good. They now kill their users.