While the first year of the Trump Administration has featured staggering assertions of executive power, this is not entirely new; rather, it is just the latest step in a century’s growth in executive power, one that has accelerated in the last two decades. “Why isn’t Congress doing its job? What about the courts?” Adam White, Laurence Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance at the American Enterprise Institute, answers these and other questions, in his lecture "The Rise of Executive Power and the Decline of Everything Else." Co-sponsored by the Center for Civic, Culture and Society and Menard Family Center for Democracy, the lecture will be insightful to anyone interested in the current state of the American political system.