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Obituaries reveal shifting cultural values across time and place. Here’s a glimpse into how the moral vocabulary has evolved ...

Judy Song-Marshall is Chief Strategy Officer of Public Interest Registry, the nonprofit organization that runs the .ORG Family of Domains. I’m not what most people picture when they think of the ...

The world of American politics and cultural values has radically departed from my lifetime sense of the American trajectory. Something changed substantially in 2016, and I worry that it might be ...

On April 23, AEI hosted a collaborative event with the Chautauqua Institution and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia to discuss American civic culture as it affects our ...

Schools are increasingly abandoning their mission as assimilators of immigrants because education elites no longer believe in that mission. But parents and the American public still do. The best way ...

There are fundamental differences between liberals and conservatives -- and certainly MAGA adherents -- on what are "American values." ...

In a thought-provoking post, Vivek Ramaswamy, the American entrepreneur and politician best known for founding Roivant Sciences, argues that America’s academic decline can be traced to cultural norms ...

In a grotesquely unfair 1981 review of TJ Jackson Lears’s No Place of Grace, the Rutgers intellectual and cultural historian’s classic analysis of anti-modernism in American thought and the arts, ...

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