Among policymakers and social scientists, one of the most frequently debated and studied issues is income inequality. Many recent reports have focused on a rise in global inequality in recent years. Xavier Sala-i-Martin of Columbia University provides evidence, however, that poverty rates and global income inequality have actually declined...

What world leader was history's greatest champion of the poor? The data overwhelmingly favor a single candidate: Ronald Reagan.

Income inequality matters to the voter mostly to the extent that it affects his sense of the basic justice of society.

The countries that do not support us have terrible economies.

Democratic capitalism and the Pax Americana have brought many more global benefits than is often realized.

Meltzer's Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI's 2003 Annual Dinner.

One year ago this evening Jim Wilson delivered his Boyer Lecture entitled "Two Nations." He described America as two nations to dramatize the contrast between our dominant culture—rich, powerful, and accomplished, the successful children of the Enlightenment—and our subculture, which he did not call the underclass but many now do,...

The election victory of George W. Bushis beginning to affect very distant places and great spiritual changes are beginning to display their first sprouts.