D.C.’s Conservative Guru Finds His Inner Hippie

There were more turbans and saris among the suits and ties than usual at the American Enterprise Institute this week when AEI President Arthur Brooks welcomed Hindu spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for a conversation on human flourishing. “I wish I could tell you global brotherhood is best served through greater and greater amounts of money,” Brooks said as the heavily bearded Shankar, dressed in a luminous white robe, sat quietly in a chair, “but I can’t tell you that because it’s not true,” he concluded with a flourish.

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