December 23, 2024
What Comes Next in the Information Wars?
Event Summary On December 5, AEI’s Christine Rosen hosted a conference on understanding the shifting conception of truth in the media, especially as it relates to political culture and social cohesion. Dr. Rosen moderated the first panel, which featured the Data & Society Institute’s Alice E. Marwick and Jon Askonas of the Catholic University of…
December 9, 2024
“Propertizing” Privacy: Evaluating the Merits of a Property-Based Approach to Personal Data Protection
Decades into the Information Age, privacy continues to bedevil policymakers and businesses. Does treating personal information as common-law property offer a framework for thinking about privacy protection and maximizing consumer welfare? Or have experiments with injecting property into privacy legislation already proven it inapt? Recent law review articles fall on each side of the issue,…
October 8, 2024
A Conversation with Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar
Event Summary On October 8, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar joined AEI’s Chris Miller for a conversation about how the federal government can increase the United States’ research and development (R&D) capabilities across the public and private sectors. The discussion focused on how the past several decades have seen…
September 11, 2024
The Extinction of Experience: A Book Event with Christine Rosen
September 10, 2024
Jawboning: Weighing Government Influence over Online Platforms’ Censorship Practices
Event Summary On September 10, AEI’s Shane Tews moderated a panel exploring the legal implications of government involvement in free speech. Following a showing of the Federalist Society’s short film JAWBONED: Miss Information vs. Free Speech, the panel unpacked the background of the differences between Murthy v. Missouri and the National Rifle Association v. Vullo…
September 3, 2024
How Testosterone and Culture Shape Behavior
In this TED Talk, evolutionary biologist and AEI nonresident fellow Carole K. Hooven delves into how testosterone impacts the body and brain, interacting with culture to create differences in human behavior — starting with why boys tend to prefer rougher play than girls.
July 16, 2024
Life After Chevron: How Will Congress and Federal Agencies Adapt?
Event Summary On July 16, AEI and the Brookings Institution hosted a three-panel event examining Chevron deference and the implications of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Former Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-PA) and AEI’s Yuval Levin started the event, discussing the executive abuse of congressionally granted authority under Chevron and highlighting issues such as unilateral trade…
July 11, 2024
Why So Many Americans Are Losing Trust in Science
CTSE Director M. Anthony Mills discusses the declining trust in science and related areas across American demographics. He dismisses the commonly identified causes and instead attributes this recent trend in American politics to a sociological theory.
May 10, 2024
May 6, 2024: Beyond the SCIF: A Conversation with Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) on AI and Biosecurity
Event Summary On May 6, following introductory remarks by Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Mike Turner (R-OH), Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) moderated a panel with AEI’s Dan Blumenthal, Anna Puglisi of Puglisi Ventures, Anthony Ruggiero of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Palantir’s Ken Staley, and Dov S. Zakheim of the…
April 9, 2024
April 22, 2024: 30 Years of Environmental Progress: Is It Time at Last to Be Optimistic?
For years, American environmentalists held a largely pessimistic outlook on our planet’s future. But recently, the environmental movement has seen significant changes. Join Steven F. Hayward—a resident scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, who previously authored an AEI book on favorable environmental trends—for a presentation on how the trend data demonstrate the momentum of…