In The Constitution: Understanding America's Founding Document, Michael S. Greve explains how to think seriously about the United States Constitution and constitutions in general. What are constitutions supposed to do, and what can they accomplish?

In Riding the Tiger, Leon Aron, an acclaimed Russian studies scholar and a Moscow native who was sanctioned by President Vladimir Putin's regime, chronicles the transformation of Russian politics and society under Putin. Through hundreds of Russian-language sources, Dr. Aron shows how Putin uses militarist propaganda and sanitized revisionist images of World War II, Stalin, and the Soviet Union to forge a nationalist and loyal core of his regime's support. And the new Russia suddenly looks a lot like the old USSR.Dr. Aron's bold, expert analysis of Russian political culture under Putin helps us better understand Russia's revanchist tendencies, its invasion of Ukraine, and the perilous road ahead.

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.

In the inaugural volume of an eight-book series, renowned historians and political scientists explore what the contested idea of democracy meant to those who participated in the American Revolution. For some, democracy represented a particular way to order government, while others understood democracy to be a transformative principle that would serve as the philosophical bedrock of not just the new republic's political institutions but its social and cultural ones as well.

Examining the democratic culture that was born out of the American Revolution can help us understand the framework within which we continue to debate the structure and purpose of the system of government that binds us together today.

Having saddled the tiger of militarized patriotism, Putin expertly made it trot in the right direction. But the animal required more and more meat; as it grew, it became harder to dismount.

In this gripping tale, Leon Aron, the author of the acclaimed biography Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life, shows how Vladimir Putin has refashioned Russian society in his own image, placing militarized patriotism front and center. Through hundreds of Russian-language sources and arresting images, Aron chronicles the emergence of the new Russia.

Riding the Tiger challenges the conventional idea of Putin's regime as a traditional autocracy, bolstered by propaganda, political manipulation, and repression. The book tells the story of how Putin shaped ordinary Russians' views of their country, their history, and their own selves. The fast-paced narrative is a crash course in the political and cultural history of Russia according to Putin, his vision of Russia's manifest destiny, and his role in fulfilling it.

In exploring Russia's recent past, Aron offers insights into Russia's future. He argues that Putin's actions, including the invasion of Ukraine, are driven by the Russian president's need to ensure his regime's survival, avenge the fall of the Soviet Union, combat the America-led West, and make Russia a superpower again. Thus, regardless of the outcome of the war in Ukraine, war-or the threat of war-will remain his preferred means of holding on to power and recovering national glory.

Could Putin bring the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon in pursuit of those ends? At the close of the book, Aron offers a chillingly detailed scenario of how such a crisis might play out.

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. In honor of this significant anniversary, the American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.

In the second volume of this series, leading historians, political scientists, and economists analyze the role that the market economy played in the creation of the United States. Alongside the American Declaration of Independence, 1776 marked the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. This work shaped the political and economic thought of many leaders in the American Revolution, including those who would go on to join rival political parties, such as Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. At the same time, the founders evinced concerns over what economic inequality might mean for political freedom in the fledgling republic.

Understanding how the founding generation viewed the promises and perils of capitalism in securing the future of the United States can shed light on modern debates over capitalism's role in American society.

Material hardship among American children has never been lower. This seeming victory in the War on Poverty, however, has failed to loosen the connection between family origins and where kids end up. Children born to the most disadvantaged parents today are no less likely than in the past to become the most disadvantaged adults when they grow up. Indeed, because of the perverse disincentives in our safety net, policy may have simultaneously reduced hardship while impeding upward mobility. More generally, the progressive assumption that what poor children need to advance primarily involves more money is a dubious one.

But if progressive proposals to expand the opportunities of poor kids have disappointed, the challenges those children and adolescents face have never sufficiently preoccupied the right. Conservatives are appropriately skeptical of government's ability to influence behaviors and values or to manage initiatives effectively. Their concerns about the federal government's proper role in social policy are well-grounded. But the moral imperative to do right by kids--to affirm the American Dream--remains.

This volume provides a set of ideas to do just that. The proposals are grounded in the insight that greater opportunity requires shoring up the relationships of children and adolescents and the strength of the institutions to which they are connected--in short, rebuilding social capital. And they embrace a spirit of innovation. Expanding opportunity requires experimentation with new approaches, many of which will fail, to identify scalable effective policies. But identify them we must.

Government Project tells the story of an attempt by the
US government to remake the lives of some of its citizens by establishing a cooperative
farm in Pinal County, Arizona, in 1937. These individuals were among the most
desperately poor and disadvantaged in the nation.

Casa Grande Valley Farms was an elaborate venture that provided
the Americans who volunteered to settle there with housing, work, and the
opportunity to earn income. For five years, the farm succeeded. The revenues
from the sale of its crops gave the Casa Grande settlers material comfort and
wealth far beyond what they had ever possessed.

But in the farm's seventh year of operation, the inhabitants
shuttered it and walked away with hardly anything, to the shock and dismay of
the government officials overseeing it.

Government Project explains what went wrong at Casa
Grande. In telling this story, it illuminates larger truths about human nature
and the limits of governance.

In recent years, the Constitution has become a source of
political controversy between conservatives and progressives. While the right
defends our founding document, the left argues that it's an antiquated plan of
government that goes against basic principles of democratic sovereignty.

What's
missing from this debate is an appreciation for the Constitution's purpose.
What kind of government were the founders trying to achieve?

In his
new book, Democracy or Republic? The People and the Constitution, Jay
Cost provides insight into that question. He argues that the founders' vision
was for a republic, not a democracy.

In both
types of government, the citizens have the power to rule, but republics go
further than this. A republic, as Abraham Lincoln put it, is a government of
the people, by the people, for the people. But in a simple democracy, the
majority can rule for the good of themselves, rather than the whole community.
How do you place the people in charge without creating a democratic tyranny? By
the time of the American Revolution, nobody in the history of the world had yet
answered this question.

But
America's Founding Fathers did just that, and the Constitution reflects their
ingenious solution--the idea of consensus. They created a government that would
take action not because a narrow and fleeting majority demands it, but because
a large, broad, and considered coalition of the people has found common cause
with one another. This reflects the true opinion of the people, not just a
faction that is temporarily in power. That is how government of the people
becomes government for the people.

America,
then, is not merely a democracy. It is something greater. It is a republic,
built on the ideal of consensus. And while our country today has many problems,
consensus remains the best way to solve them. Far from being a liability for
the United States, the Constitution is still its greatest asset.

The 18th-century Enlightenment liberated mind, soul, and
property. It established the world-changing principle that labor and capital
are private property, unleashing unprecedented explosions in work, thrift, and innovation
that lifted millions of people out of abject poverty.

But the modern-day phenomenon known as environmental,
social, and governance (ESG) investing threatens that prosperity.

The implicit promise of ESG investing is that you can do
well and do good at the same time. Investors presume they can make a market
return while lowering carbon emissions or reducing income inequality. However,
this seemingly noble pursuit does more harm than good.

In Ending ESG and
Restoring the Economic Enlightenment, Sen. Phil Gramm and Terrence Keeley
bring together a collection of insightful essays considering the many problems
with ESG. The authors draw parallels between pre-Enlightenment practices and
ESG's mistaken attempt to enrich society by extracting rents from workers,
consumers, and capital owners. They explain the inefficiencies of ESG
investing, the flaws of ESG rating methodologies, and the conflict between ESG
and fiduciary standards. They also show how impact investing is a viable
alternative for those who genuinely want their capital to do well and do good.

Featuring the writing of Mike Edleson, Alex Edmans, Hester
Peirce, Andy Puzder, and Mike Solon, this insightful volume illustrates why ESG
is so ineffective and ultimately dangerous. ESG, at its root, is a return to
the pre-Enlightenment world, where a self-chosen elite use nondemocratic means
to extract the rewards that come from the sweat of the workers' brows and the
sacrifice of their thrift. We have seen this drama play out many times before. The
sooner we end the ESG experiment, the sooner we can restore the principles that
have always allowed humanity to flourish.

In this essay, delivered as the Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in February 2004, Charles Krauthammer examines four contending schools of American foreign policy: isolationism, liberal internationalism, realism, and democratic ...

In Economic Growth: Unleashing the Potential of Human Flourishing, Edd S. Noell, Stephen L. S. Smith, and Bruce G. Webb make a comprehensive case for economic growth, equipping readers with an understanding of not only its pragmatic benefits but also its moral dimensions.

Since the first edition was published in 1989, Character and Cops has been considered the bible of police ethics training. The book is a comprehensive guide to the ethical challenges faced daily by police officers, especially in times of heightened security. The updated sixth edition features a new foreword by David Bores, a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States military police, and a new chapter titled 'From War Veterans to Peace Officers, ' which explores policies for incorporating soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan into the domestic police force.

How can we reconcile competing claims about artificial intelligence in today's policy debate? Will AI herald a technological utopia filled with scientific breakthroughs that extend and enhance life, or will the machines we create turn on us and usher in the apocalypse? Will chatbots stifle creativity and crush the human spirit, or are they just reflections of ourselves, for better or worse? As we grapple with these questions, technologists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, writers, artists, and elected officials have espoused approaches to AI advances that appear fundamentally at odds with each other.

There are many misconceptions about the future of global energy often presented as fact by the media, politicians, business leaders, activists, and even scientists--wasting time and money and hampering the development of progressive energy policies. Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate debunks the most common fallacies to make way for a constructive, scientific approach to the global energy challenge. When will the world run out of oil? Should nuclear energy be adopted on a larger scale? Are ethanol and wind power viable sources of energy for the future? Vaclav Smil advises the public to be wary of exaggerated claims and impossible promises. The global energy transition will be prolonged and expensive--and hinges on the development of an extensive new infrastructure. Established technologies and traditional energy sources are persistent and adaptable enough to see the world through that transition. Energy Myths and Realities brings a scientific perspective to an issue often dominated by groundless assertions, unfounded claims, and uncritical thinking. Before we can create sound energy policies for the future, we must renounce the popular myths that cloud our judgment and impede true progress.

Women's equality is one of the great achievements of Western civilization. Yet most American women today do not consider themselves feminists. Why is the term that describes one of the great chapters in the history of freedom in such disrepute?

In Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today, Christina Hoff Sommers seeks to recover the lost history of American feminism by introducing readers to social feminism's forgotten heroines. More importantly, she demonstrates that a modern version of social feminism-in which women are free to employ their equal status to pursue happiness in their own distinctive ways-holds the key to a feminist renaissance.

National security threats facing the West are fundamentally changing. Turning away from the military as an omnibus tool of aggression, hostile governments are instead frequently using tools--including subversive economics, coercion of foreign companies, gradual border violations, cyberattacks, disinformation, and arbitrary detention of foreign citizens--that are often difficult for targeted countries to immediately identify, let alone tackle. Nonmilitary aggression is easy, inexpensive, and alarmingly effective. Businesses -- American and foreign -- have already suffered significant financial losses because of gray-zone attacks. In The Defender's Dilemma, international security expert Elisabeth Brawer offers the first sustained analysis of how these tactics in the gray zone between war and peace dangerously weaken liberal democracies, which are open societies by definition and intimately connected to the rest of the world through globalization. She discusses the breadth of gray-zone aggression and presents str

The author argues that a tax on imports commensurately creates a tax on exports, and that trade imbalances reflect capital flows between countries.

The author examines the structure of the corporate charter market, the impact of takeover regulation and federal securities law, and the spreading of criminalization of corporate duties.

James Q. Wilson is the former president of the American Political Science Association and adviser to four presidents on issues related to crime, drug abuse, education, and other crises of American cutlure. In this book, he has produced a provocative series ...