January 14, 2026
British Industrial Policy
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 Claude Barfield and Hudson Institute Senior Fellow William A. Schambra. The volume emerged from an AEI conference convened in response to shifting dynamics abroad, especially…
January 13, 2026
Getting Serious About Improving Biosafety
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 Agency to coordinate what is currently a fragmented federal process. His call for reform comes at a critical moment. As he notes, COVID-19 has created…
December 18, 2025
Shutting Down NCAR Is Vindictive Governance
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 dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world’s leading climate research labs….
December 2, 2025
Tracing Engineered Biothreats with AI Forensics: Five Steps to Improve Attribution
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 a critical gap in biosecurity capabilities—the limitations of modern forensics in reliably tracing biological threats back to their sources. When a novel pathogen emerges, investigators…
October 23, 2025
Bridging Perspectives in COVID’s Wake: Science, Policy, and Public Trust in Crisis Response
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 here to RSVP to the event. Event Description As we move beyond the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to thoughtfully examine the…
August 29, 2025
Science Policy without Science or Policy
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 be traced, in part, to a bipartisan consensus that R&D, especially support for basic research, was broadly in the public interest. He explained: [T]he political…
August 25, 2025
Trump vs Biden on Science Integrity
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, scientific integrity centers on protecting government scientists and the science that they conduct from political interference from higher-ups. For Republicans — who under President Trump…
August 21, 2025
When Harry Became Sally | Interview: Carole Hooven
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.
July 29, 2025
The War on Science
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 policing of language and replacing well-established, disciplinary scholarship by ideological mantras, current science and scholarship is under threat throughout western institutions. As this group of…
July 14, 2025
Precipitation Paradox?
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 changes in energy policy. The trick goes like this: At the core of this line of reasoning is the exploitation of an apparent paradox: How…