This Bradley Lecture is based on Brooks’s new book, “The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise” (Basic Books, May 2012).

America's version of capitalism has been much more dynamic than Europe's. Why don't Obama and Romney debate that?

We used to have overleveraged banks; we replaced them with overleveraged governments. If Greece goes down, almost every Western government will be at risk.

With 2011 winding down, AEI’s foreign policy experts take an only partly tongue in cheek look at the year that’s passed and the one ahead. Who’s in, who’s out? What’s up, what’s down?

With stem cell speech, Bush tried to maintain a position of principle, but what he ended up doing was giving away the principle.

So men and women who faced death at Fallujah or Kandahar or Desert Storm are now to face death panels at home? That’s the upshot of the administration’s plans for military health care.

Russia's demographic decline will undermine the Kremlin's plans for economic and military modernization--and could make Moscow more dangerous in the international arena.

With the popularity of the Obama health care plan continuing to slide, and time running out for the Senate to reach a compromise before Christmas, Democrats may opt for some legislative shortcuts to get a bill done--and to the President's desk--before the end of the year.