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Enterprise Report Restoring Liberty, Opportunity, and Enterprise in America Issue No. 1, Spring 2017 Enterprise Report Restoring Liberty, Opportunity, and Enterprise in America Ideas That Stand the Test of Time By AEI President Arthur Brooks It is fair to say that a lot has changed since the last edition of this newsletter. In November, a major election upset completely reconfigured the country’s political landscape. In January, we celebrated the peaceful transition of power between two very different presidents. And in the weeks since, we have already seen the country’s policy trajectory shift considerably with a series of executive actions, a new cabinet, and a new Supreme Court appointment. As you may expect, these unexpected shifts in political winds have thrown much of Washington, DC, into disarray. So much of this city lives and dies with the volatile political weather. Of course, AEI prides itself on agility and responsiveness. Our scholars, communications experts, and outreach teams work together to produce and promote timely research that policymakers can put into practice today. But fundamentally, AEI is different. We are not short-term meteorologists who try to predict the political weather and change our work to suit the conditions. Instead, our focus is the underlying climate of ideas. We prioritize deep thinking and big-picture research that stands the test of time. Our experts produce top-flight scholarship on all the most pressing questions for America’s future. They write books that are remembered for decades. By investing in long-term ideas, we can study and inflect the enduring forces that shape policy and culture across generations. This focus empowers AEI to be even more useful and relevant in the near-term because our actionable ideas are backed by a rock-solid intellectual foundation— whatever the day’s headlines may bring. This core approach is on display throughout the pages of this newsletter. A few highlights: • A prime example of AEI’s present impact is our new series, “What to Do: Policy Recommendations for 2017,” a bundle of innovative reforms and policy solutions designed to strengthen the United States, from economics to foreign affairs and Arthur Brooks AEI President and national defense. The project spans 27 different policy areas and features a wide Beth and Ravenel Curry variety of our scholars’ best work on these topics. Scholar in Free Enterprise • Another prime example is Michael Auslin’s new book, The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region. At a time when Asia’s future—and our relationship with Asia—is increasingly uncertain, Auslin shows why Asia and the United States must work together and take bold action to avert catastrophe. • In a new volume edited by Robert Doar, A Safety Net That Works: Improving Federal Programs for Low-Income Americans, AEI scholars and other leading experts weigh in on reforming each of the major federal antipoverty programs. The volume was heavily promoted to a bipartisan audience of policymakers on Capitol Hill. • Across several other important policy areas, AEI is expanding our work and recruit- ing new experts to lead our efforts. This edition of our Q&AEI features our new director of domestic policy studies, Ryan Streeter. Streeter oversees our growing research arm that focuses on education, poverty studies, criminal justice reform, American citizenship, political science and public opinion, and other critical areas. • All this work is possible only because of the generosity and involvement of our national AEI community. Page 7 of this newsletter highlights some of the ways you can grow your personal involvement with AEI, whether you live inside the Beltway or thousands of miles away. From AEI’s donor community to our state-based Leadership Network to our AEI on Campus initiatives to our scholars and staff right here in Washington, all of us share something in common. We believe that all people possess inherent human dignity that must be safeguarded and defended and tremendous human potential that they can realize only when they are empowered. These priorities ground all our work at AEI. By promoting the systems, policies, and values that best serve vulnerable people—and by cultivating a generation of new leaders who can translate these ideas into action—we dedicate all that we do to reunifying our country and restoring dignity and potential for more Americans and more people across the world. Thank you for standing with us. Arthur Brooks What to Do AEI Scholars Leading Bipartisan AEI Scholars Offer Policy Efforts on the Hill Solutions for New Administration AEI scholars are at the forefront of the most pressing issues facing the new presidential administration and The new administration faces a host of our nation’s military by adopting a Congress. Already in 2017, AEI has challenges with no obvious solutions, three-theater force construct is a hosted 13 events featuring Republican including crises in the Middle East national security imperative. and Democrat elected officials, and South Asia, failed education including committee chairmen, reform policies, strained entitlement Entitlement Programs. AEI’s House members, and senators, and programs, and a broken health care domestic policy scholars are AEI scholars have been called to testify system. AEI scholars are addressing recommending top-to-bottom before Congress six times. On Capitol these problems head-on with an reforms for every major federal Hill, scholars have led briefings on ongoing series, “What to Do: entitlement and antipoverty program, issues including education, poverty, Policy Recommendations for 2017.” offering detailed, actionable, and health care, Chinese investment, and In more than 27 policy areas, AEI bipartisan policy solutions aimed military readiness. scholars are providing actionable at making sure our limited resources Behind the scenes, AEI scholars recommendations to the new are directed to those who need it have been in high demand for strategic administration and Congress on ways the most. advice and have met frequently with to address our nation’s most pressing elected officials. They have engaged problems. Examples include: Jobs. In his book Men Without Work and related writing, Nicholas Eberstadt with the new administration’s transi- tion team both as official members Asia. President Trump has expressed presents a clear, thoroughly researched and informal advisers and hosted uncertainty about the “one China” look at the problem of prime-age men several listening sessions between policy, but Dan Blumenthal points who are unemployed but not looking administration transition staff and out the People’s Republic of China is for work. Michael Strain offers an array outside organizations. responsible for our frayed relationship. of conservative reform proposals aimed Additionally, in January, Arthur On the open question of the future of at addressing this critical problem and Brooks gave the opening keynote trade in Southeast Asia, Derek Scissors making work more attractive for those address of the joint Senate-House discusses what is next after the end of relying on government benefits. Republican retreat in Philadelphia, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and what addressing all elected Republicans is at stake. Health Care. AEI’s health policy scholars are focusing on the long- in Congress, as well as senior lead- ership and committee staff. AEI also Tax Policy. In response to the intro- term goal of transforming health care, cohosted the Bipartisan Program duction of a border adjustment tax and are promoting reforms that preserve for Newly Elected Members of into the House Republican tax reform consumer choice, competition, Congress with Harvard University’s plan, AEI’s Open Source Policy efficiency, and innovation, and that Institute of Politics, which included Center introduced a border adjust- provide all Americans with access to 32 House members-elect, including ment calculator, allowing users to make high-quality care at affordable prices. 13 Republicans and 19 Democrats. their own plan and see the results in real In the months ahead, AEI will cohost time. Using this tool, Alan Viard shows To read AEI scholars’ recommendations a series of follow-up dinners with that there is a right and wrong way to for the new administration, visit: this group to continue to facilitate pursue border adjustment. www.aei.org/spotlight/ what-to-do-policy- bipartisan discussion. Defense. The scholars from AEI’s recommendations-for-2017/. Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies make the case that rapidly rebuilding 3 Auslin Releases The End of the Asian Century On January 10, Michael Auslin, AEI Security. More than 150 people and resident scholar and director of Japan a television crew from NHK, Japan’s Studies, released The End of the Asian largest broadcasting organization, Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks attended the event. Since its release, to the World’s Most Dynamic Region. Auslin has discussed the book in While it has been long assumed that dozens of radio, television, and online growing Asian countries are ascendant interviews, including on Fox News’ on the world stage, Auslin marshals America’s News HQ, the Wall Street Jour- comprehensive evidence proving the nal’s Opinion Journal, BBC World News, contrary position: that due to factors acting boldly and building closer rela- and Real Clear Defense. To learn more such as slumping economies, regional tionships with the United States. about the book, visit: www.aei.org/ instability, and environmental catastro- The book was released at a public publication/the-end-of-the phes, Asia’s future is uncertain. He event at AEI headquarters, featuring a -asian-century-war-stagnation argues that the best chance Asian nations discussion between Auslin and Robert -and-the-risks-to-the-worlds have to avert catastrophe is through Kaplan of the Center for a New American -most-dynamic/. Poverty Studies Scholars Promote Antipoverty Reforms In August 2016, more than 30 years after decades of experience studying and Outcomes in Adulthood” AEI and the Los Angeles Times teamed implementing the crucial federal pro- (Richard V.
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