Banter: An AEI Podcast
by AEI Podcasts
Tune in to Banter as American Enterprise Institute President Robert Doar and Phoebe Keller, the head of AEI’s media department, take you inside the think tank for conversations on pressing policy issues with AEI’s leading experts. Banter keeps the conversation entertaining for anyone with an interest in politics and policy.
Episodes
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Jonah Goldberg on the Political Landscape from "One on One with Robert Doar"
For the full episode, search and subscribe to "One on One with Robert Doar" wherever you get your podcasts! Jonah Goldberg joins Robert to talk about the transformation of the American political and media landscape in recent years. They discuss ideological realignments on the right, media bias…
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Dan Cox on the Gender Divide within Gen Z from "One on One with Robert Doar"
For the full episode - subscribe to One on One with Robert Doar wherever you get your podcasts. Dan Cox joins Robert to talk about the growing divide between Generation Z men and women. They discuss the corrosive effects of social media, declining interest in relationships and marriage, and the...
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Yuval Levin on American Unity from "One on One with Robert Doar"
In this episode of "One on One with Robert Doar", Yuval Levin joins Robert to analyze social cohesion in America, Trumpism, realignment on the right, and the loss of trust in elites. Yuval is the AEI Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies and Editor in Chief, National Affairs.…
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Introducing “One on One with Robert Doar”
Tune in to the same great podcast you already enjoy – now faster and with more in-depth interviews! "One on One with Robert Doar" is the newest AEI podcast that provides exclusive access to in-depth discussions on pressing policy issues. Dive into stimulating conversations with AEI's foremost...
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Adam White on the Supreme Court
Adam White joins Phoebe and Robert to analyze the recent Supreme Court rulings concerning affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, the independent state legislature theory, and congressional redistricting. Adam is a senior fellow at AEI, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the...
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Derek Scissors on a New China Playbook
Derek Scissors joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss decoupling from China, a weakening Chinese economy, upcoming Taiwanese elections, and US-India economic policy. Derek is a senior fellow at AEI, where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is...
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Rick Hess on Rethinking Education
Rick Hess joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss school choice, parental involvement, the impact of COVID, and higher education. Rick is a senior fellow and the director of education policy studies at AEI, where he works on K–12 and higher education issues. He is also an executive editor of Education...
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Philip Wallach on Debt Ceiling and Congress
Philip Wallach joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss the debt ceiling debate, congressional reform, elections, and the history of Congress. Philip is a senior fellow at AEI where he studies America’s separation of powers, with a focus on regulatory policy issues and the relationship between Congress...
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John Bailey on AI and ChatGPT
John P. Bailey joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and the future of technology. John is a nonresident senior fellow at AEI. His experience has spanned government, philanthropy, and the private sector working on a range of issues including technology, the future…
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Andrew Biggs on Social Security
Andrew Biggs is a senior fellow at the AEI, where he studies Social Security reform, pensions, and public sector pay and benefits. Andrew joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss Social Security solvency, privatizing Social Security, introducing minimum benefits, and implementing mandatory...
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Zack Cooper on A New China Playbook
Zack Cooper is a senior fellow at AEI, where he studies US defense strategy in Asia, including alliance dynamics and US-China competition. He also teaches at Princeton University and cohosts the Net Assessment podcast for War on the Rocks. Zack joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss A New China...
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Scott Winship on Upward Mobility
Scott Winship is a senior fellow and the director of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the AEI, where he researches social mobility and poverty. Scott joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss poverty alleviation, upward mobility, workforce participation, and the child tax credit.
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Brian Miller on Hospital Consolidation
Dr. Brian Miller is a nonresident fellow at the AEI, where he focuses on Medicare payment policy, FDA regulatory policy, healthcare competition policy, veterans’ health, and public health policy. Brian joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss hospital consolidation, patient care, CDC reform, and…
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Matt Weidinger on Child Tax Credit
Matt Weidinger is a senior fellow and Rowe Scholar in poverty studies at AEI, where his work is focused on safety-net policies. Matt previously served as the deputy staff director of the House Committee on Ways and Means and as the longtime staff director of its Subcommittee on Human Resources....
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Paul Ryan on Conservative Politics and Economic Reform
Paul Ryan, who previously served as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is a distinguished visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). His recently released book, American Renewal, offers solutions to renew America’s social contract and place our government programs on...
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Ruy Teixeira on Election Demographics
Ruy Teixeira is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at AEI, where he studies political demography, voter turnout, American electoral politics, and party coalitions. Ruy is the editor of the AEI Elections and Demography Project which focuses on demographic voting patterns during the 2022 election. Ruy…
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James Capretta on Reforming Healthcare
James C. Capretta is a senior fellow and holds the Milton Friedman Chair at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies health care, entitlement programs, and fiscal trends in advanced economies. His latest book, US Health Policy and Market Reforms, was released in September. James...
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Chris Miller on Semiconductor Technology
Chris Miller is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on Russian foreign policy, politics, and economics. His new book, Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, is available for purchase now. Chris joins Phoebe and Robert…
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Marc Thiessen on Politics and Biden's Foreign Policy
Marc Thiessen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) where he studies and writes about American presidential leadership and counterterrorism. He is a columnist for The Washington Post and a regular contributor to Fox News. Marc joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss partisan...
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Paul Kupiec on Inflation and Crypto
Paul Kupiec is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies systemic risk and the management and regulations of banks and financial markets. He also follows the work of financial regulators such as the Federal Reserve and examines the impact of financial…
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Steven Koonin on Climate Science and Extreme Weather
Steven Koonin is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on climate science and energy policies. From 2009 to 2011, Dr. Koonin served as the under secretary for science at the US Department of Energy, where as the chief scientific officer, he coordinated...
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Adam White on SCOTUS and the Dobbs Decision
Adam White is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on American constitutionalism, the Supreme Court, and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School at...
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Edward Pinto on the US Housing Market
Edward Pinto is a senior fellow and the director of the AEI Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute. He is currently researching how to increase the entry-level housing supply for first-time buyers and renters who earn hourly wages, as well as examining the current house price boom…
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Ben Ippolito on Health Care Economics in America
Benedic Ippolito is a senior fellow in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where his research focuses on public finance and health economics. He studies health care financing, the pharmaceutical market and its regulations, and the effect of health care costs on the...
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John Yoo on SCOTUS, Justice Thomas, and Old Parkland
John Yoo is a nonresident senior fellow at AEI. He has worked in all three branches of government, notably as an official in the US Department of Justice, where he worked on national security and terrorism after the September 11 attacks. He also served as general counsel of the US Senate…
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Ian Rowe on Black Conservatism
Ian Rowe is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on education and upward mobility, family formation, and adoption. In his new book “Agency” (Templeton Press, May 2022), Ian Rowe seeks to inspire young people of all races to build strong families and become…
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Matt Continetti on the Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
Matt Continetti is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where his work is focused on American political thought and history, specifically focusing on the development of the Republican party and the American conservative movement in the 20th Century. Matt joins Robert and Phoebe…
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Jason Blessing on Cybersecurity
Jason Blessing is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on cybersecurity, military cyber forces, military technological transformation and force structure, US cyber defense policy including civilian-military dynamics in cyberspace, and...
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James Coleman on energy insecurity
James W. Coleman is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on energy policy, including energy commodity, transport, and trade and markets regulation. He is concurrently the Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor of Law at Southern...
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Chris Miller on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and what happens next
Chris Miller is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on Russian foreign policy, politics, and economics; Russia and Ukraine; Russian-European relations; and Eurasia. He also focuses on semiconductors and the geopolitics of technology. Chris...
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Brad Wilcox on marriage in today's America
Brad Wilcox is a nonresident senior fellow at the AEI, where his research explores the links between family and the economy at home and abroad. Brad joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss the state of the American family, marriage and birth rates, and how both the government and society at large can...
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Desmond Lachman on how the Fed should respond to soaring inflation
Desmond Lachman is a Senior Fellow at AEI. He joined AEI after serving as a managing director and chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. He previously served as deputy director in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Policy Development and Review Department. At AEI,...
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Leon Aron on the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Dr. Leon Aron is a Senior Fellow at AEI, where he studies Russian domestic and foreign policy, US-Russia relations, and the economic, social, and cultural aspects of Russia’s post-Soviet evolution. This week, he joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss Soviet leaders, the psychology behind Putin's...
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Diana Schaub on Lincoln's Greatest Speeches
Diana J. Schaub is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where her work is focused on American political thought and history, particularly Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, African American political thought, Montesquieu, and the relevance of core American...
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Klon Kitchen on data privacy, American tech corporations, and defense
Klon Kitchen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the intersection of national security and defense technologies and innovation. Through his research, he works to understand and explain how emerging technologies are shaping modern statecraft,...
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Mark Jamison on antitrust laws and Big Tech
Mark Jamison is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on how technology affects the economy, and on telecommunications and Federal Communications Commission issues. Dr. Jamison has served on the FCC transition team for President-elect Trump, as a special...
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Oriana Skylar Mastro on the Chinese regime’s growing threat
Oriana Skylar Mastro is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on Chinese military and security policy in the Asia-Pacific and rising power challenges to the international order. She also serves in the United States Air Force Reserve as a strategic...
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Yuval Levin on American Institutions
Yuval Levin is a senior fellow and the director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. Yuval joins Robert and Phoebe to discuss the state of America’s institutions, the...
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Naomi Schaefer Riley on American child welfare
Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on child welfare and foster care issues. Her work analyzes the role of faith-based, civic, and community organizations in changing the foster care and adoption services landscape. This week, Naomi…
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Elisabeth Braw on emerging national security threats
Elisabeth Braw is a resident fellow at AEI where she focuses on defense against new and emerging threats, particularly those that do not meet the definition of conventional military force. She joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss the tools and technologies that governments and criminals can use to...
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Kori Schake on US defense policy
Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). She joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss US defense spending and how to maintain healthy civil-military relations after the turmoil of the Trump years. Stay tuned until...
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Chris Stirewalt on the State of American News Media
Chris Stirewalt is a resident fellow at AEI, where he focuses on American politics, voting trends, public opinion, and the media. Before joining AEI, he was political editor of Fox News Channel. This week, Chris joins Robert and Phoebe to delve into the current state of American journalism…
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Michael Strain on America’s Economic Outlook
Michael Strain is the Director of Economic Policy Studies at AEI, where he oversees the Institute’s work in economic policy, financial markets, international trade and finance, tax and budget policy, welfare economics, and health care policy. Michael joins the show to talk with Robert and Phoebe...
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Colin Dueck on Conservatives’ Approach to Foreign Policy
Colin Dueck is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the interconnections between US national security, party politics, and conservative thought. Colin joins the show to talk with Robert and Phoebe about divisions on the right in foreign policy outlook, and...
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Max Eden on Critical Race Theory in K-12 Education
Max Eden is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on education reform, specifically K–12 and early childhood education. Max joins the show to talk with Robert and Phoebe about school choice, critical race theory, and the future of American education.
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Benjamin and Jenna Storey on Why We Are Restless
Professors Benjamin and Jenna Storey teach political philosophy at Furman University, where they also lead the Tocqueville Program. Their new book, Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment, explores the roots of modern unhappiness and offers guidance in the search for fulfillment....
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Muzzy Rosenblatt on Homelessness in New York City
Muzzy Rosenblatt is the CEO and President of the Bowery Residents’ Committee, a nonprofit organization that serves nearly 10,000 homeless and at-risk New Yorkers every year. In their new book, “How Ten Global Cities Take On Homelessness,” Muzzy and his co-authors draw on decades of practical...
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Paul Wolfowitz on the Biden Admin’s Foreign Policy Outlook
Paul Wolfowitz is a visiting scholar at AEI, where he works on development and national security issues. Before joining AEI, Dr. Wolfowitz spent more than three decades in public service and higher education, working in the administrations of seven different presidents. Paul joins the show to…
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John Fortier on Voter ID and Election Reform
John Fortier is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on Congress and elections, election administration, election demographics, voting (and absentee voting), the US presidency, and the Electoral College. John joins the show to talk with Robert and Phoebe about...
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Kevin Kosar on Congressional Reform and the Postal Service
Kevin Kosar is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies Congress, congressional oversight, the administrative state, and the US Postal Service. Kevin joins the show to talk with Robert and Phoebe about making Congress a stronger, leaner, and more effective branch…
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Tune in to Banter as American Enterprise Institute President Robert Doar and Phoebe Keller, the head of AEI’s media department, take you inside the think tank for conversations on pressing policy issues with AEI’s leading experts. Banter keeps the conversation entertaining for anyone with an interest in politics and policy.
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