My AEI colleague Mark Jamison recently asserted that “traditional news journalists are toast” because the “cost of authoring written content” has plunged in just two years from “around $100 per 1000 words” to only…
By Clay Calvert | April 1, 2024
On March 26, New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, well-known for The Coddling of the American Mind, released a new book, The Anxious Generation, where he attributes the transition from a play-based…
By Bronwyn Howell | March 28, 2024
“There are no solutions,” the celebrated economist Thomas Sowell once wrote, “only trade-offs.” Nowhere is this wise maxim truer these days than in the realm of green energy, where the headlong…
By Michael M. Rosen | March 28, 2024
Tony Mills joins Robert to talk about what policymakers and scientific experts got right and wrong throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss school closures, lockdowns, masks, and vaccines. Tony highlights…
By M. Anthony Mills | Robert Doar | March 26, 2024
For years now, sports experts and culture warriors alike have been fiercely contesting the issue of whether transwomen (males who live and identify as women) should be eligible to compete…
By Carole Hooven | March 22, 2024
A year ago today, the Future of Life Institute released a letter calling for a 6-month pause in the training of artificial intelligence (AI) systems more powerful than GPT-4. The signers included…
By Will Rinehart | March 22, 2024
Did federal officials go too far and violate the First Amendment when they vigorously–– sometimes successfully––lobbied social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter (now X) to remove users and content questioning the…
By Clay Calvert | March 21, 2024
It's likely that LLMs may get worse before they get better. These are not merely necessarily bad consequences, but possible results as an emerging industry matures and the law catches…
By Daniel Lyons | March 20, 2024
The introduction of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe has sparked a heated debate about the delicate balance between promoting competition and ensuring user safety in the digital landscape.…
By Shane Tews | March 20, 2024
Among my millennial friends, and even more so for Gen Z, it’s common to believe that the United States is in terminal decline. But I remain an outlier because I…
By Will Rinehart | March 19, 2024
Before I was married and a parent, I would write with high dudgeon about the defects of involving government in the business of child-rearing. In 2002, for example, I wrote about…
By Jim Harper | March 19, 2024
The City and County of Honolulu about four years ago filed a “public nuisance” lawsuit against the energy producers, attempting to hold them liable for the purported effects of anthropogenic climate change…
By Ben Zycher | March 19, 2024
The late Queen Elizabeth II is believed to have once famously opined “I have to be seen to be believed.” While Her Majesty’s words were assumed to be referring to the bright-colored…
By Bronwyn Howell | March 18, 2024
Key Points Read the PDF.https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/A-Choice-of-Law-Alternative-to-Federal-Preemption-of-State-Privacy-Law.pdf?x85095 Introduction A prominent theme in debates about US national privacy legislation is whether federal law should preempt state law. A federal statute could create one…
By Jim Harper | Geoffrey A. Manne | March 15, 2024
National markets need a national regulator, right? It makes no sense to have our large American companies face as many as 50 regulators. The inefficiencies are obvious, and the logic…
By Jim Harper | March 15, 2024