AEI Visiting Fellow Ramesh Ponnuru joins students from the University of Georgia to discuss the Republican Party after the presidency of Donald Trump. Ponnuru discusses the Republicans’ increased focus on symbolic politics in recent years, and outlines how Republicans could return to delivering solutions for policy problems. He also shares his thoughts on how Republicans can offer a policy agenda as they prepare for future elections.

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AEI resident fellow Brent Orrell and students from Mizzou’s Executive Council examine prisoners’ lives after incarceration. Orrell discusses his reservations about our current approach to prisoner reintegration into society, and explains why prisoners are often worse off for participating in the government’s current reintegration schemes. He calls on policymakers to reimagine our prison system to focus more on the importance of rehabilitation.

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In this episode of The Campus Exchange, AEI visiting fellows Michael Brendan Dougherty and Thomas Chatterton Williams talk with students at Furman University about how we construct our identities and form a sense of belonging in America. The rise of identity politics and nationalism raise important questions. How can we appreciate identity categories without letting them limit our individuality? How can collective identities bring us outside of ourselves, and how can they cut us off from others? Williams discusses his experience as a mixed-race person, and why he has come to believe that defeating racism necessitates abandoning racial categories. Dougherty shares his search for identity as an Irish-American, and how his own exploration of his ethnic identity brought him to appreciate unchosen attachments of social life.

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AEI resident fellow Adam White joins students at The College of William and Mary to discuss the legacy of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the confirmation hearings of then-judge Amy Coney Barrett, and the future of the Supreme Court. White describes how tensions over judicial appointments have escalated in recent years. He also discusses what it means to be an originalist in today’s legal environment. 

This conversation was recorded on October 14, 2020.

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AEI resident fellow Ryan Berg joins students at the University of Miami to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Latin America. Berg explains how the region’s high urbanization and dysfunctional politics has made it particularly susceptible to COVID, ending a period of relative calm. He also considers how populist movements in Latin America have eroded trust in science and institutions, and authoritarian governments have used the pandemic as an opportunity to expand their power. 

This conversation was recorded on November 11, 2020.

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AEI resident fellow Tim Carney and The Dispatch’s Steve Hayes join students at Colorado College to discuss the consequences of the 2020 election. Did Trump’s appeal rest on his style and attitudes, or was it held together by a populist political program? Carney and Hayes discuss the seeming party realignment between educated and working- class Americans, potential priorities for a new Democratic administration, and what the future of conservatism might look like. 

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