In "Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II," Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman describes how the U.S. won history’s greatest conflict by harnessing free market principles and private-sector creativity and innovation to increase war production.

It is ironic that an administration that promised hope and change is instead pursuing policies that could stifle American creativity.

Successfully translating scientific discoveries requires a sense of urgency, which some disease foundations seem to have, and many big pharmas appear to need. Patients waiting expectantly for medical research to produce important new cures are finding bad news almost everywhere they turn.

Many forget that America's pro-Israel policy advances vital practical and strategic goals. If we abandon Israel now, it would be worse than a crime.

Contrary to the left's entitlement mind-set, Americans are happiest when they earn what they receive. What the middle class needs most is more of what it already does so well.

On July 22, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke at AEI.

The United States has a long-term challenge to employment that requires thinking about long-term responses, with a focus on maintaining America's edge in science research and information know-how, combined with the creativity generated by the market system.

Although government can be a positive piece of the health care puzzle by facilitating competitive markets, it is the marketplace that can provide more choices, better care, higher quality, and cost based on value.