Arthur C. Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute, where great Americans and others of note at one time or another come to think things through. The common wisdom is that it has a conservative tilt, and that's true if your definition of conservatism covers the old verities and virtues that have held our country together and as such have also been subscribed to by generations of old-line liberals.
Mr. Brooks, who has a Ph.D. in policy analysis and also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Free Enterprise at AEI, defies easy political or ideological pigeonholing. He is the author of 11 books, among them “The Road to Freedom” and “The Conservative Heart.” “While I'm not a member of either political party,” he writes, “free enterprise is something I deeply believe in.”
Previous to his 10-year stint at AEI, he taught policy at Syracuse University for a decade; and previous to that spent 12 years as a professional classical musician here and in Spain, including several seasons playing French horn as a member of the City Orchestra of Barcelona, which led, among other things, to reflections on the nature of leadership, prompted by a tyrannical conductor.
Read Full Article »
