Mario Vargas Llosa received the Irving Kristol Award and discussed his political and literary work in Latin America and Spain.

Mario Vargas Llosa will receive the 2005 Irving Kristol Award.

Mario Vargas Llosa will receive the 2005 Irving Kristol Award at AEI's annual dinner on March 2, 2005.

Text of Vargas Llosa's lectureThe Irving Kristol Lecture is intended to illuminate central issues of public policy in contemporary America. The lecturer, selected by AEI's Council of Academic Advisers, is an eminent thinker who has made notable intellectual or practical contributions to improved...

Mario Vargas Llosa delivered the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI's 2005 Annual Dinner.

Christopher DeMuth, James Q. Wilson, and José María Aznar introduce the 2005 Irving Kristol Lecture by Mario Vargas Llosa.

Peru is a difficult country to govern because, divided by geography and ethnicity, it has a history of repeatedly reinventing its political institutions.

The eminent social scientist and writer Charles Murray has been selected to receive the American Enterprise Institute's Irving Kristol Award for 2009.