This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the latest Kitchen Sync Conversation. https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-e-sanger (David E. Sanger) is a White House and national security correspondent, and a senior writer. In a 38-year reporting career for The New York Times, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His newest book,...

This week, AEI presents the latest Kitchen Sync Conversation. Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founding and current editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor of The New Atlantis and a contributing editor to National Review. Dr. Levin and scholars in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies research division study the...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents a live episode of https://www.aei.org/tag/what-the-hell-podcast/ (What the Hell is Going On). You can find the podcast on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-hell-is-going-on/id1467993804 (Apple), https://open.spotify.com/show/2Yo2gsVPUYm7iPTZHm1qKt?si=176c2404cab74b18 (Spotify), or wherever you get your podcasts. In the Virginia governor’s race, Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated former Governor Terry McAuliffe in a state that President...

This week, the AEI podcast channel presents the latest Kitchen Sync Conversation with Jared Kohen. How can the US level the playing field in its tech competition with China? What role does the private sector need to play, and what is Google’s Jigsaw up to? Is public discourse as polarized in America as it seems? Klon Kitchen discusses these questions and more in a wide-ranging discussion with Jared Cohen, founder and CEO of Google’s Jigsaw, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the latest episode of What the Hell is Going On? If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to the podcast on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-hell-is-going-on/id1467993804 (Apple), https://open.spotify.com/show/2Yo2gsVPUYm7iPTZHm1qKt?si=_tzMmfoISiiBShcJQopqYQanddl_branch=1 (Spotify) or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about Uncontrolled Spread (New York Times Bestseller) https://www.uncontrolledspread.com (here). Pfizer and...

This week, AEI presents today's episode of the AEI Events Podcast. If you enjoy the episode, you can find the AEI Events Podcast on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-aei-events-podcast/id1173743623 (Apple), https://open.spotify.com/show/341NyeuHUV0sIlxHiZp7Do?si=xM-j1HM8SnOJaY8kYb7imganddl_branch=1 (Spotify) or wherever you get your podcasts. As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to shift from an acute crisis to an endemic pathogen, AEI’s Scott Gottlieb — physician, medical policy expert,...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the latest episode of https://www.aei.org/tag/aei-banter/ (Banter), AEI's flagship podcast. If you like what you hear, subscribe to Banter on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/banter-an-aei-podcast/id427915745 (Apple), https://open.spotify.com/show/7kOxlIuNsPbshewASi8tLI?si=60b2d45f7fe14ce9 (Spotify) or wherever you get your podcasts. Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents a conversation with AEI Senior Fellow, https://www.aei.org/profile/klon-kitchen/ (Klon Kitchen), and Twitter's Vijaya Gadde. To hear more from Klon, check out his newsletter, https://www.thekitchensync.tech/people/4355149-klon-kitchen?sort=archive (The Kitchen Sync). What is Twitter trying to do globally? Will the company allow the Taliban to operate freely on its platform? Why is China allowed to spread misinformation and why don’t users trust...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel features the latest episode of https://www.aei.org/tag/explain-to-shane-podcast/ (Explain to Shane). You can find Explain to Shane on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explain-to-shane/id1523693011 (Apple Podcasts), https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZPhP6FBGDVblkzR3hJzz3?si=9135ca93bd094f45 (Spotify) or wherever you get your podcasts. The potential for a fragmented, decentralized global internet (or “splinternet”) is a concern on many levels. Two aspects of...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the most recent episode of https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/race-gap-in-multigenerational-poverty-census-2020-findings/ (the Brookings Cafeteria), featuring AEI scholar Scott Winship. On this two-part episode, Senior Fellow William Frey from the Metropolitan Policy Program answers a few questions about recent and upcoming 2020 Census data. Also, Brookings scholar Richard Reeves and AEI scholar Scott Winship discuss the new AEI-Brookings...

The AEI Podcast Channel presents last month's episode of the https://www.aei.org/tag/bradley-lectures-podcast/ (Bradley Lecture Series) podcast. If you enjoy this episode, subscribe directly to the podcast on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bradley-lectures-podcast/id1227489803 (Apple), https://open.spotify.com/show/0y0LMDYnrzPnSZzhK42cOy?si=e5c628bc8ece449d (Spotify) or wherever you get your podcasts. For decades, our appreciation for natural beauty has been tempered by an awareness of...

Today, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the latest episode of https://www.aei.org/tag/aei-banter/ (Banter), hosted by AEI President, Robert Doar, and Director of Media Relations, Phoebe Keller. To find more episodes of Banter, subscribe directly on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/banter-an-aei-podcast/id427915745 (Apple), https://open.spotify.com/show/7kOxlIuNsPbshewASi8tLI?si=64c618eed2054deb (Spotify) or wherever you get your podcasts. Professors Benjamin and Jenna Storey teach...

Today, the AEI Podcast Channel shares the latest episode of https://www.aei.org/podcast/wth-is-going-on-with-the-covid-lab-leak-theory-rep-mike-gallagher-on-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology-the-pandemics-origin-and-the-possible-chinese-cover-up/ ("What the Hell is Going On?"). If you enjoy this episode, subscribe directly to the podcast, on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-hell-is-going-on/id1467993804 (Apple),...

This week, AEI presents the latest episode of https://www.aei.org/tag/are-you-kidding-me-podcast/ (Are You Kidding Me?). If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to the podcast directly on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are-you-kidding-me/id1511049533 (Apple), https://open.spotify.com/show/5CUToI2Rb5fhWHJWqUUrhg?si=d6d4af8a147f46dd (Spotify) or wherever you get your podcasts. A professor at Georgetown Law School was recently fired for remarks she made during a private zoom call about the...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the latest episode of Unprecedential. Both historically and constitutionally, the freedom to worship has been a centerpiece of American politics. For much of their history, Americans viewed religious devotion as a linchpin of human experience and deserving of legal protection. But traditional religion has become increasingly suspect in the current cultural landscape, which prizes autonomy and freedom. For those with secular beliefs, faith can seem...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the most recent episode of Understanding Congress, hosted by AEI's Kevin Kosar. The topic of today’s episode is, “Can Congress budget?” My guest is https://spp.umd.edu/our-community/faculty-staff/allen-schick (Dr. Allen Schick). He is professor emeritus at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He previously has held positions at the Congressional Research Service, the Urban Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the American...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the latest episode of the National Affairs Podcast. The 2019-2020 school year will be remembered as the year we all became home schoolers. But well before the pandemic, the popularity of home schooling exceeded its actual prevalence, as fiscal and logistical challenges often posed insurmountable obstacles for potential home-school families. Guest Michael McShane joins us to discuss the hybrid home-school model, and how it might offer a way to close...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the latest episode of "The Invisible Men," hosted by Ian Rowe and Nique Fajors. In this episode, Ian and Nique are joined by https://thefederalist.com/author/delanosquires/ (Delano Squires) — an Author at the Federalist and a long-time public servant. Delano shares how his growing faith journey and upbringing in an interconnected family from the West Indies have been center points of his journey as a writer. A computer engineering major in college,...

Today, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the most recent episode of https://www.aei.org/tag/what-the-hell-podcast/ (What the Hell is Going On?) hosted by Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen. President Biden recently announced that he plans to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. The decision has sparked accusations of “surrender,” and fears that Biden is repeating the Iraq withdrawal mistake again -- a decision that led to the establishment of ISIS’s caliphate in...

Today, the AEI Podcast Channel presents our newest podcast, https://www.aei.org/tag/an-economist-goes-to-college-podcast/ (An Economist Goes to College). Economist and scholar Beth Akers seeks to inform aspiring students about how to make strategic decisions about their higher education. Speaking on topics like how to use data to shop for college or non-college alternatives, how to utilize the student loan system to your advantage, and more, Beth cuts through the romanticism we often attach...

This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents Wednesday's episode of https://www.aei.org/tag/political-economy-podcast/ (Political Economy), a podcast hosted by AEI's Jim Pethokoukis. On both sides of the aisle, calls for industrial policy seem to be gaining momentum. Americans have grown more skeptical about markets in the aftermath of the Great Recession. And China’s more managed economy seems to be growing faster and rivaling the US as the technological leader of the world. Many policymakers...

Today, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the most recent episode of https://www.aei.org/tag/hardly-working-podcast/ (Hardly Working), a podcast hosted by AEI scholar, Brent Orrell. Nontechnical skills — communication, creativity, and teamwork — are important to career success. Unfortunately, they often aren’t well-defined, and we have trouble “teaching” them in a classroom. David Deming of the...

Today, the AEI Podcast Channel presents a conversation between the director of AEI's Critical Threats Project, Fred Kagan, and General David H. Petraeus on the http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/isws-overwatch-podcast-series (Overwatch) podcast. Civil war and an unrestrained al Qaeda are all but certain should the US withdraw its forces from Afghanistan in May per the US-Taliban deal signed over a year ago. American disengagement will only embolden revisionist powers and create an...

Today, the AEI Podcast Channel presents episode 27 of https://www.aei.org/tag/explain-to-shane-podcast/ (Explain to Shane), a tech podcast hosted by Shane Tews and Will Rau. While stuck indoors during the pandemic, items we want — and sometimes need — are harder to locate. Web retailers offer a quick fix, but what if we need online tutoring, IT help, or athletic coaching? And what if we could offer our own goods and services in return? In an attempt to overcome the communication barriers of...