Executive Summary: Gene synthesis screening is an effective tool to prevent dangerous pathogens from moving from digital design to physical reality. Mandatory screening will likely provide substantial benefits at modest…
By Anemone Franz | Rachel Hovde | Scott Weathers | February 2, 2026
Key Points Read the PDF (text version below): Editor’s Note In 1986, the American Enterprise Institute published The Politics of Industrial Policy, a collection of essays edited by AEI Senior Fellow…
By Jeffrey A. Hart | January 14, 2026
Response to Better Biosecurity for the Bioeconomy by David Gillum. David Gillum makes a compelling and urgent case for improving oversight of high-risk biological research and proposes a National Biosafety and Biosecurity…
By Anemone Franz | January 13, 2026
Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced that it was taking steps to shut down the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). USA Today broke the story: The Trump administration is moving to…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 18, 2025
The 2001 anthrax letter attacks in the United States, the 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak, and the COVID-19 pandemic have something in common: Investigators have struggled to determine their origins despite extensive efforts. This highlights…
By Anemone Franz | December 2, 2025
Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 2:00 PM to 5:45 PM ET Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health615 N Wolfe St.Baltimore, MD 21205 Contact Information: Rachel Colligan | Rachel.Colligan@aei.org Please click…
By Robert Doar | Yuval Levin | M. Anthony Mills | Roger Pielke Jr. | October 23, 2025
Writing almost 20 years ago, science policy scholar Dan Sarewitz made a remarkable observation about federal support for research and development (R&D):1 Sarewitz argued that the long-term stability in R&D funding can…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 29, 2025
Since the George W. Bush administration and under both parties, the White House has focused on scientific integrity. However, Republicans and Democrats have conflicting views on what that means. For Democrats,…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 25, 2025
Carole Hooven, evolutionary biologist and nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the differences between gender and sex, homosexuality in the animal kingdom, and epigenetics.
By Carole Hooven | Jonah Goldberg | August 21, 2025
An unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society. From assaults on merit-based hiring to the…
By Carole Hooven | Sally Satel | Joshua T. Katz | Lawrence M. Krauss | July 29, 2025
There is a cynical trick being played by some climate activists to promote misinformation and undercut the assessments of the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as they lobby for…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | July 14, 2025
This episode starts with a Very Special introduction in which I explain what’s been going on with the podcast over the last six months (lots of different offerings, which possibly…
By Carole Hooven | July 14, 2025
Ten years ago today I published a post at my sport governance blog, The Least Thing, that explored who had a greater chance of “going pro” — the men’s NCAA Division…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 25, 2025
The title of today’s post comes from an excellent recent talk in London given by my AEI colleague (and University of Pennsylvania professor), Jesús Fernández-Villaverde. Today I look at the simple math…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 16, 2025
The implausibly extreme and hugely popular climate scenario RCP8.5 made it into President Trump’s executive order last week on “Restoring Gold Standard Science.” Ironically, the Trump administration’s characterization of RCP8.5…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 4, 2025