Aei press jun 2026 (8 résultats)

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This timely and essential collection, edited by AEI's Yuval Levin and featuring leading scholars like Jack Rakove, Akhil Reed Amar, Adam White, Colleen Sheehan, and Harvey Mansfield, marks the 250th anniversary of American independence by revisiting the Declaration, natural law, and the birth of democracy, revealing how revolutionary-era state governments and the Western political tradition shaped the Constitutional Convention and the enduring U.S. Constitution.Featuring original essays by Jack N. Rakove, Akhil Reed Amar, Adam J. White, Colleen A. Sheehan, and Harvey C. Mansfield. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversaryof American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it hasnot been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a majorintellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the uniquevalue of their national inheritance. In the seventh volume of this series, scholars of American history, law, and politics discuss how the AmericanRevolution unleashed the forces of constitution-making in the United States. Asstates erected new governments in the wake of independence, they worked tocombine traditions of colonial self-government with both classical and novelpolitical theories. Studying the revolutionary period shows how it gave birth to a constitutional culture that shaped the delegates and debates that would forge the nation's enduring Constitution in 1787. …

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This is a timely and essential exploration of the spiritual heart of the American founding, in which leading scholars including Michael W. McConnell, Thomas S. Kidd, Jane E. Calvert, Meir Y. Soloveichik, and Vincent Phillip Muñoz examine how religious freedom, individual conscience, natural rights, and civil society shaped the fight for independence, offering a fresh and illuminating look at America's constitutional inheritance as the nation marks the 250th anniversary of the Revolution.Featuring original essays by Michael W. McConnell, Thomas S. Kidd, Jane E. Calvert, Meir Y. Soloveichik, and Vincent Phillip Muñoz. 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 third volume of this series, scholars of American history and law consider the place of religion in the American Revolution. Many who participated in the American fight for independence viewed the cause as a fundamentally spiritual struggle, one with enormous implications for religion's future in American civil society. Exploring the multifaceted ways in which the founding generation understood religious freedom and worked to balance protections for diverse religious communities with the rights of individual conscience illuminates the commitment to liberty at the heart of the American project.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Featuring original essays by William Anthony Hay, Jeremy Rabkin, Gary J. Schmitt, Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Eliga H. Gould, and Walter Russell Mead. 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 sixth volume of this series, scholars of American history and international relations survey how the United States defined its place among the community of nations following independence. As they noted in the Declaration, the revolutionaries understood that the success of their movement depended on 'a decent respect to the opinions of mankind' and assistance from allies abroad. At the same time, disputes over foreign entanglements and neutrality fiercely divided Americans in the early republic. Looking at the founding-era debates over America's 'empire of liberty' can inform the foreign policy questions we face today.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This vital collection of original essays marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, as leading legal scholars and political scientists, including Robert P. George, Charles R. Kesler, Michael Zuckert, Daniel E. Burns, and Janice Rogers Brown, revisit the Declaration's 'unalienable rights,' the Constitution, and the founding debates over natural rights, revealing how the American Revolution balanced individual liberty against communal responsibility and what that means for democracy and civil society today. Featuring original essays by Robert P. George, Charles R. Kesler, Michael Zuckert, Daniel E. Burns, and Janice Rogers Brown. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversaryof American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it hasnot been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a majorintellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the uniquevalue of their national inheritance. In the fourth volume of this series, legalscholars and political scientists examine the many ways in which the foundinggeneration understood the 'unalienable rights' immortalized by the Declarationof Independence. Although the Declaration described the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as a 'self-evident' truth, this characterizationbelied the Revolutionary era's complex discourse on the origins of politicalrights and their role in sustaining a political community. Delving into these debates reveals how theAmerican Revolution encoded a productive tension between individual rights andcommunal responsibilities at the nation's founding.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Timely and essential as America marks 250 years of independence, this landmark inaugural volume in AEI's eight-book series brings together renowned voices like Yuval Levin, Gordon S. Wood, and Danielle Allen to unpack the fiercely contested meaning of democracy at the nation's founding, exploring whether it was a governing structure or a transformative cultural principle, offering readers essential context for today's heated debates over the Constitution and American self-government.Featuring original essays by Gordon S. Wood, Bryan Garsten, Peter Berkowitz, Danielle Allen, and Greg Weiner. 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.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - As America marks the 250th anniversary of independence, this essential and thought-provoking essay collection--edited by Yuval Levin with contributions from leading historians and economists--explores capitalism's foundational role in the American Revolution, examining Adam Smith's influence on Jefferson and Hamilton, tax resistance, economic inequality, and the enduring debate over markets, freedom, and the American constitutional order.Featuring original essays by Jay Cost, Clement Fatovic, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Richard A. Epstein, and Christopher DeMuth. 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.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This is a timely and thought-provoking exploration, marking America's 250th anniversary, of how the American Revolution both perpetuated slavery and sowed the seeds of its abolition, as leading legal scholars trace the Declaration of Independence's promise of human equality through Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the 14th Amendment, illuminating the founding's contested legacy on race, natural rights, federalism, and the path to a 'new birth of freedom.'Featuring original essays by Randy E. Barnett, Kurt T. Lash, Lucas E. Morel, Justin Driver, and Diana Schaub. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversaryof American independence, yet the nation's founding is controversial now inways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers amajor intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to theunique value of their national inheritance. In the fifth volume of this series, legalscholars and political scientists discuss how the American Revolution both perpetuatedslavery and created the conditions for its abolition. While hundreds ofthousands of African Americans remained enslaved at the end of theRevolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence's assertion of humanequality galvanized slavery's opponents and laid the groundwork forincreasingly egalitarian definitions of American citizenship. Considering how the Declaration shapedantislavery thinkers and politicians such as Frederick Douglass and AbrahamLincoln and informed the 14th Amendment demonstrates how the AmericanRevolution enabled a 'new birth of freedom' in the 19th century.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This essential and perfectly timed volume, edited by Yuval Levin and featuring Richard Brookhiser, Jane Kamensky, Allen C. Guelzo, Rita Koganzon, and Wilfred McClay, marks the 250th anniversary of American independence by tracing how generations have remembered, debated, and rewritten the story of the Revolution, revealing how the Spirit of '76 has shaped civic education, culture, and the Constitution, and how the founding fathers' legacy continues to forge a shared identity in a pluralistic nation.Featuring original essays by Richard Brookhiser, Jane Kamensky, Allen C. Guelzo, Rita Koganzon, and Wilfred McClay. Theyear 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet thefounding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The AmericanEnterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project toreintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance. In the final volume of this eight-book series, historians explore how generationsof Americans have defined, debated, and drawn on the memory of the AmericanRevolution. From the early republic to the present, Americans have repeatedlywritten new histories of their independence movement and centered 'the Spiritof '76' in their arts and civic initiatives as a way to make sense ofcontemporary challenges. Studyingthe American Revolution's legacy shows how it has shaped American civiceducation, informed American culture, and enabled citizens to fashion a sharedidentity in a pluralistic nation. …