EI: On the Front Porch with Brent Orrell and Tony Pipa: A Conversation with Benji Backer and Michelle Moore — Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Location: AEI Auditorium, 12:00 PM. The tensions between development and sustainability and production and conservation, combined with the ongoing debate over energy source

d insurance crisis. • AEI: The American Dream Lecture Series: Conservatives and Culture—A Failure of Imagination — Thursday, May 8, 2025. Location: AEI Auditorium, 5:00 PM. For decades, American conservatives have lamented that the nation's arts and culture are dominated by leftist perspectives. This narrow id

dents using grade-level texts. • AEI: Summer of Our Discontent: A Book Event with Thomas Chatterton Williams — Monday, September 8, 2025. Location: AEI Auditorium, 5:00 PM. "In Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse, AEI's Thomas Chatterton Williams chronicles the ideas and

nder Veterans Toolkit for governors and state legislatures. • AEI: The True Cost of Defense: A Film Screening — Monday, November 10, 2025. Location: AEI Auditorium, 4:00 PM In recent years, serious threats to America's security posture have emerged. The rise of China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific, large-scal

ndamental right. • AEI: A Conversation with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith on Tax Reform — Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Location: AEI Auditorium, 10:00 AM. At the end of 2025, key provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) are set to expire, including the repeal of personal and depe

undamental right. • AEI: A Conversation with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith on Tax Reform — Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Location: AEI Auditorium, 10:00 AM. At the end of 2025, key provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) are set to expire, including the repeal of personal and depen

Annual American Family Survey: Opportunities and Obstacles to a Broad-Based Political Coalition for Families — Thursday, February 6, 2025. Location: AEI Auditorium, 1:00 PM. The past decade has significantly affected Americans' economic well-being, but they remain optimistic about the strength of their marriag

General Events • AEI: Addressing the Attendance Crisis: New Research on Chronic Absenteeism Since the Pandemic — Friday, May 30, 2025. Location: AEI Auditorium, 2:00 PM. The COVID-19 pandemic had devastating effects on students across the country. One lasting consequence is the sustained crisis of chronic a

Solution to the Housing Crunch: A Premiere of the AEI Housing Center's Documentary on Light-Touch Density —Thursday, September 19, 2024. Location: AEI Auditorium, 11:00 AM. American home prices have risen nearly SO percent in just four years, and the two sides of the housing reform war haven't budged an inch