society and culture

3 min read 2022-08-16 19:32:53

Looping around old tropes is a denial of service to youth who hanker for meaningful change

Fionnuala O’Connor asks an interesting and usefully realist question in today’s Irish News: Is Michelle O’Neill expected to say IRA violence

2 min read 2022-08-15 16:00:00

Visitors and staff at AEI may have noticed recently the AEI library was in a state of disarray. With the assistance of four terrific summer

3 min read 2022-08-15 14:28:51

I was listening to an interesting podcast recently. It was a discussion with the writer Michael Sacasas about his article – We Are Not Living in a

2 min read 2022-08-12 20:00:54

Associate Professor of Anthropology T.S. Harvey has been awarded a Ford Foundation Senior Fellowship—a first for a Vanderbilt faculty member—for

2 min read 2022-08-12 02:45:11

Visitors and staff at AEI may have noticed recently the AEI library was in a state of disarray. With the assistance of four terrific Summer

1 min read 2022-08-12 02:44:05

In 1963, in a very different media environment from the one today, AEI started publishing a news digest as an in-house resource. As its value within

3 min read 2022-08-12 02:42:41

Reading the minutes from the American Enterprise Association (as AEI was called until 1962) board meetings in the mid-1950s, it was clear that a

2 min read 2022-08-12 02:42:15

The breadth of AEI activities under the leadership of William J. Baroody Sr. is striking. Baroody, Sr. served as AEI president from 1962 to

5 min read 2022-08-10 13:00:18

Next May, the United Kingdom will host the 67th Eurovision Song Contest. If three members of Belfast City Council get their way, it will be hosted in

3 min read 2022-08-10 08:40:15

By Jenna Somers Many governments around the world agree that access to education is a human right that benefits the greater social good, but how

11 min read 2022-08-08 01:00:46

A couple of weeks back, I wrote a little about how governments are reconsidering their attitude to nuclear power, and talked about the mechanics of

2 min read 2022-08-04 23:05:35

I’m officially away this week and next but I think this analysis piece from Lee Reynolds on Trimble’s legacy is worth sharing on the fly, in

4 min read 2022-08-03 20:26:00

Thoughts on Ulster-Scots Certain things come with the territory if you publicly admit to an interest in Ulster-Scots. It’s likely that people

4 min read 2022-07-29 21:31:29

I don’t have much to add in terms of what the life of David Trimble adds up to. The breadth of generous comment this week (including Brian’s)

3 min read 2022-07-28 21:05:29

Building on their shared vision for serving dedicated young musicians in the Middle Tennessee region, the Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music