The annual award, AEI’s highest honor, is given to individuals who have made exceptional practical and intellectual contributions to improve government policy, social welfare, or political understanding.Essays by Irving Kristol, appearing The Wall Street Journal in the early 1970s, were largely responsible for a young assistant professor of management becoming a political conservative. This in spite of the fact that my low income, lack of tenure, and position near the bottom of the academic totem pole made leftist politics in my self-interest. Kristol's essays were that powerful.
Since our President doesn't like Netanyahu, giving Bibi their top award is a great way for AEI to symbolically flip off Obama. Way to go, guys.
