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It’s always a pleasure to announce an auspicious new partnership, and we’re launching one today that is particularly promising. As of today, National Affairs, the policy journal I edit, will make its home at AEI, in the newly launched Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies research division.
The magazine will remain editorially independent, and will continue publishing authors from a wide variety of backgrounds, affiliations, and views. The substance of its work will not change. But its staff will be part of AEI’s team, and the institute will help support its operations.
There could hardly be a more natural partnership. National Affairs has always shared AEI’s core priorities and principles. The magazine exists to help Americans think more clearly about the challenges of self-government. Each issue features lively yet serious essays on the range of issues: from economics and health care to education and welfare; from the legal debates of the day to enduring dilemmas of society and culture. It devotes special attention to the deeper theoretical questions of American self-government — seeking to cut through the conventional wisdom, help readers make sense of complex issues, offer concrete proposals, and illuminate the ideas that move our politics. National Affairs authors work to apply the highest ideals of the American political tradition to the toughest problems our society confronts — free from partisan blinders and always with an eye to advancing the dignity and well-being of all people.
It is no coincidence, therefore, that the pages of National Affairs have featured the work of a great many AEI scholars.
And the relationship has some deeper historical roots too. National Affairs strives to model itself on The Public Interest, probably the most influential public-policy journal in American history, co-edited by AEI’s Irving Kristol for four decades. In its heyday, The Public Interest was intertwined with AEI in a variety of ways. In arenas from crime and poverty to education and the culture, an idea that would begin as a discussion in AEI’s halls would soon be refined into a Public Interest essay, and in short order would find its way into the bloodstream of our politics.
The same kind of intellectual pathway has existed between AEI and National Affairs, and that partnership will now grow stronger — to help us advance some crucial common causes together better than either institution could alone.
It’s always a pleasure to announce an auspicious new partnership, and we’re launching one today that is particularly promising. As of today, National Affairs, the policy journal I edit, will make its home at AEI, in the newly launched Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies research division.
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