With Robert Doar

3 weeks ago | aei.org | Ryan Anderson |Devorah Goldman |Rich Lowry |With Robert Doar

The “Age of Feeling” is upon us. In his new book, Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment, AEI’s Robert P. George argues that the “Age of Faith” of the medieval period and the “Age of Reason” of the European Enlightenments have been followed by a modern “Age of Feeling,” in which people derive their beliefs not from faith or reason—or faith and reason—but from emotion, which becomes the central source of truth. Can truth endure in an Age of Feeling?

Nov 19, 2024 | aei.org | With Robert Doar |Robert Doar |Kevin Corinth |Angela Rachidi

“Get the Jew”: The Crown Heights Riot Revisited, a new documentary from The Wall Street Journal Opinion, sheds light on the worst antisemitic riot in American history, which occurred in New York City in 1991. After a Hasidic Jewish driver accidentally hit and killed a black child, rioters attacked the local Jewish neighborhood in Crown Heights.

Nov 15, 2024 | aei.org | With Robert Doar |Robert Doar |J. Joel Alicea |John Fortier

Hong Kong billionaire and democracy activist Jimmy Lai is China’s most famous political prisoner. In a new biography—The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic—Mark L. Clifford, veteran Hong Kong journalist and president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, explores Lai’s rise to fame, his two-decade campaign for democracy in Hong Kong, and his political persecution by the Chinese regime.

Jul 2, 2024 | aei.org | With Robert Doar |Gary Schmitt |Philip A. Wallach |Robert D. Sack

July marks the 50th anniversary of the House Judiciary Committee’s vote recommending the House of Representatives impeach President Richard Nixon for high crimes and misdemeanors. The votes on all three articles passed with bipartisan majorities and led to Nixon’s resignation. The first presidential impeachment process since Andrew Johnson’s in 1868, the committee’s inquiry remains the only one before or since that can be judged to have been a success.

Apr 29, 2024 | aei.org | Francis Barry |Era Dabla-Norris |li Liu |With Robert Doar

In his new book, Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy, Bloomberg’s Francis S. Barry brings together two of America’s unifying loves—road trips and Abraham Lincoln—to take readers on a thought-provoking journey into the heart of our democracy and the soul of our country.