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AEI This Week
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
2025 IRVING KRISTOL AWARD
Honoring Gordon S. Wood
November 22, 2025
On Monday, AEI honored renowned American historian Gordon S. Wood with the Irving Kristol Award at our 2025 Annual Dinner ([link removed] ) . Watch AEI President Robert Doar’s remarks ([link removed] ) , Dr. Wood’s acceptance speech ([link removed] ) , and a tribute video about Dr. Wood’s career ([link removed] ) .
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This month, AEI launched the new Center for the Future of the American University (CFAU), codirected by Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey to develop and advance our scholarship on higher education reform. Visit the new CFAU website ([link removed] ) to learn more about these efforts and find new writing on liberal education, civic thought, viewpoint diversity, and other related issues.
As the GOP faces the prospect of a post-Trump future, AEI Economic Policy Studies Director Michael R. Strain urges ([link removed] ) the party to recover the fundamental, conservative values it has jettisoned under the president’s leadership.
In two upcoming cases, Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook, the Supreme Court will consider the extent of the president’s ability to remove officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve. Writing in the Yale Journal on Regulation, administrative state expert Philip Hamburger explains ([link removed] ) why the president possesses a constitutional power to remove executive officers.
The AEI Housing Center has developed light-touch density policies that are designed to address America’s housing affordability crisis by converting single-family lots into duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes. In a new AEI Economic Perspectives report, AEI Housing Center Codirector Tobias Peter and economist Stan Veuger demonstrate ([link removed] ) how these policies could work in the District of Columbia.
AEI This Week will be off on November 29 for the Thanksgiving holiday. The newsletter will resume on December 6.
Interim Orders, the Presidency, and Judicial Supremacy
In a new essay for the Harvard Law Review, law professor and Department of Justice veteran Jack Goldsmith analyzes ([link removed] ) 18 interim orders to reveal how the Supreme Court is responding to the Trump presidency. Goldsmith argues that the Court has focused on expanding its ultimate authority to interpret federal law—against both the president and lower courts. Goldsmith shows how this trend culminated in Trump v. CASA, which ended universal injunctions from lower courts but produced an unprecedented executive branch pledge to respect the Supreme Court’s supremacy.
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What Trump’s Executive Order on Foster Care Gets Wrong—and Right ([link removed] )
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New Student Loan Data Show a Historic Spike in Borrowers Falling Behind ([link removed] )
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Real Estate Red Flag: How Hidden Blue-State Policies Are Pricing Out Homeowners ([link removed] )
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A Spark of Literary Genius ([link removed] )
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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 303 Days In ([link removed] )
Nat Malkus et al. | The Report Card with Nat Malkus
Federal Agencies and the Future of Presidential Power ([link removed] )
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Here is a prediction. The Trump administration will lose some of these cases on issues it cares a lot about. And when it loses, it will comply with the ‘judgments and opinions’ of the Court—not because it is constitutionally compelled to do so, or due to Sauer’s pledge, but because the political foundations of judicial review demand it and because Trump does not yet have the power or the context to ignore or bully the Court the way that Lincoln and FDR did.
—Jack Goldsmith ([link removed] )
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