The Campus Exchange

Michael R. Strain is the director of Economic Policy Studies and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies labor markets, public finance, social policy, and macroeconomics. Before joining AEI, Dr. Strain worked in the Center for Economic Studies at the US Census Bureau and in the macroeconomics research group at the Federal Reserve Bank...

Steven B. Kamin is a senior fellow at AEI, where he studies international macroeconomic and financial issues. Before joining AEI, Dr. Kamin spent 32 years at the Federal Reserve, directing the Division of International Finance, advising on international economic and financial policy matters, and representing the Fed before international groups such as the G7. He also served as a visiting economist...

Alex Brill is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies the impact of tax policy on the US economy as well as the fiscal, economic, and political consequences of tax, budget, health care, retirement security, and trade policies. He also works on health care reform, pharmaceutical spending and drug innovation, and unemployment insurance reform. Brill is the editor...

Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at AEI, who specializes in society and culture, as well as technology and culture. Dr. Rosen is concurrently a columnist for Commentary Magazine and a co-host of The Commentary Magazine Podcast, as well as a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and a senior editor in an advisory position at the New Atlantis. Dr. Rosen...

Zach Cooper is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies US strategy in Asia, including alliance dynamics and US-China competition. He also teaches at Princeton University and is currently writing a book that explains how militaries change during power shifts. Before joining AEI, Dr. Cooper was the senior fellow for Asian security at the Center for Strategic and Intern...

Matthew Continetti is the director of domestic policy studies and the inaugural Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where his work is focused on American political thought and history, with a particular focus on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement. Matthew joins Joshua Jankelow, a senior at St...

Philip Wallach is a senior fellow at AEI, where he studies America’s separation of powers, focusing on regulatory policy issues and the relationship between Congress and the administrative state. Dr. Wallach recently published, Why Congress, where he defends the centrality of Congress in America’s constitutional system, traces the roots of current dysfunction, and suggests how the institution migh...

Kenneth M. Pollack is a senior fellow at AEI, where we works on Middle Eastern political-military affairs, focusing in particular on Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf countries. He previously served in the CIA, National Security Council, and is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program. Kenneth joins Dillon Prochnicki from Georgetown University to disc...

John Yoo is a nonresident senior fellow at AEI, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has worked in all three branches of government, notably as an official in the US Department of Justice. He also served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and US Court of Appeals Judge Laurence Silberm...

Chris Stirewalt is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on American politics, voting trends, public opinion, and the media. He is concurrently a contributing editor and weekly columnist for The Dispatch. Chris is joined by Sam Raus of the University of Miami for a recap of the first Republican primary debate and discussion about the remainder of the 2024 president...

David French is an opinion columnist for the New York Times , specializing in law, culture, religion, and armed conflict. In this special summer episode, David joins two AEI Summer Honors Academy students, Ethan Wilmot from the University of Michigan and Michaela Ferrario from Cornell University, for a wide-ranging conversation on college free speech culture, religious disengagement, and civil-mil...

Brent Orrell is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on job training, workforce development, and criminal justice reform. Before joining AEI, he worked in the executive and legislative branches of the US government for over 20 years.  In our last episode of season 3, Brent joins Elisabeth Nieshalla of Taylor University for a conversation on how to choose a...

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is the John H. Makin Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Fernández-Villaverde’s broad areas of research include macroeconomics, econometrics, and economic history. Dr. Fernández-Villaverde joins Oscar Ortiz of Abilene Christian University to discuss the ongoing banking crisis, its...

Adam J. White is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University. Adam joins Allie Mast of Messiah University for a Supreme Court term roundup. They discussed cases such a...

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in the Foreign Policy and Defense Department, where she focuses on defense against emerging national security challenges such as hybrid and gray-zone threats. Elisabeth joins Erin Hodgson from Abilene Christian University for a conversation on gray zone aggression and deterrence between the United States, Eastern Europe, and As...

Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on child welfare and foster care issues. Specifically, her work analyzes the role of faith-based, civic, and community organizations in changing the foster care and adoption services landscape. Naomi joins Nidhi Krishnan from Washington University in St. Louis for a conversation about the child welfare...

Dr. Daniel A. Cox is the director of the Survey Center on American Life and a senior fellow in polling and public opinion at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies political behavior, religious and demographic change, social capital, and youth politics. Dr. Cox joins Lily Miller from the University of Notre Dame to discuss the intersection of gender with friendship and dating, workpla...

Dr. Kevin R. Kosar is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies the US Congress, the administrative state, American politics, election reform, and the US Postal Service. Dr. Kosar is joined by Benjamin Mays of Cedarville University to discuss the current state of play in Congress, the recent messy election of the House Speaker, potential reforms to improve Congres...

Mackenzie Eaglen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness. Mackenzie joins Pieter van Wingerden of Claremont McKenna College to discuss the state of the US defense industrial base, America's dwindling weapons stockpiles, and the role of allies in US defense strategy. To learn more about our 2023 Sum...

James C. Capretta is a senior fellow and holds the Milton Friedman Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies health care, entitlement programs, and fiscal trends in advanced economies. Jim joins Arunabh Sinha of Indiana University to discuss how to improve the US healthcare system, conservative approaches to price transparency with procedures and medications, and options to incr...

Dr. Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at AEI, where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor at The New Atlantis, a contributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. In our first episode of 2023, Yuval joins Jonny Ga...

Today, we're doing something a little bit different. In this special holiday episode of the Campus Exchange, Jeff is joined by two members of AEI's Academic Programs staff: Camille Messer and Chris Healey. Listen for a fun discussion of holiday traditions, favorite books and movies, what drew each of them to AEI, and more. To learn more about our 2023 Summer Honors Program, visit https://www.aei.o...

Dr. Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Before joining AEI she was the deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has had a distinguished career in government, working at the US State Department, the US Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at...

Dr. 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. Oriana joins Eli Glickman of the University of California, Berkeley to discuss China's threat to Taiwan, steps the United States and its allies can take, and potential mean...

Dr. Christopher J. Scalia is a Senior Fellow in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies department at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on literature, culture, and higher education. Chris joins Thomas Gilmore of Ave Maria University to discuss the legacy of his father, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Scalia's friendship with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, fri...