The AEI Events Podcast
1) The Future of Online Speech Regulation: Section 230 and Beyond
Members of Congress and state legislatures are taking aim at online platforms’ ability to set and enforce content-moderation guidelines as private entities. Several proposals in Congress would scrap o...Show More
2) War in Ukraine: Russian losses, Ukrainian victory, and the information war
The war in Ukraine has raged for more than a month, yet predictions of a rapid Russian victory have proved wrong. Indeed, it now appears that by the definitions Vladimir Putin putatively set — to oust...Show More
War in Ukraine: Russian losses, Ukrainian victory, and the information war
1:17:55 | Apr 13th, 2022
3) ‘The Poor Side of Town: And Why We Need It’: A book talk with Howard Husock
In “The Poor Side of Town: And Why We Need It” (Encounter Books, 2021), AEI’s Howard Husock combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies with the idea that simple low-cost hou...Show More
‘The Poor Side of Town: And Why We Need It’: A book talk with Howard Husock
1:24:54 | Sep 30th, 2021
4) Uncontrolled spread: A book event with Scott Gottlieb
As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to shift from an acute crisis to an endemic pathogen, AEI’s Scott Gottlieb — physician, medical policy expert, public health advocate, and former US Food and Drug Admin...Show More
5) 20 years after 9/11: Counterterrorism lessons for future frontiers
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, the Joe Biden administration has ended the “forever war” in Afghanistan, replacing US boots on the ground with an over-the-horizon counterterrorism capability. Afr...Show More
6) Should the Fed launch a digital currency? A speech by Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller
The majority of the world’s central banks are exploring digital currency. Most proposals for a central bank digital currency could function like US dollars. It could be widely accepted, an alternative...Show More
7) Confronting Joe Biden’s proposed TRIPS waiver for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments
The Joe Biden administration’s announcement in early May that it would support suspending intellectual property (IP) rights at the World Trade Organization for COVID-19-related vaccines and treatments...Show More
8) America’s ever-shrinking fighting force
The US defense budget is at its largest in decades, yet the Air Force’s combat-coded aircraft inventory, the Navy’s battle-force ship fleet, and the Army’s number of active-duty soldiers have all shru...Show More
9) The Budget and Accounting Act at 100: Looking back and forward
The enactment of the Budget and Accounting Act in June 1921 was a seminal event in the history of the federal budget process. It created two consequential American government institutions: the Bureau ...Show More
10) Swapping jerseys: What changes when African extremists join the Islamic State?
The Islamic State is gaining allies in Africa. Extremist groups linked to both the Islamic State and al Qaeda are intensifying their grip on communities across large swaths of the continent. Why do lo...Show More
Swapping jerseys: What changes when African extremists join the Islamic State?
44:22 | Jul 22nd, 2021