The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow ….

Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it….

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end..

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest in….

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession..

If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or t….

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and thre….

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a compl….

China is ruthlessly pragmatic. It supports North Korea for its own selfish interests. And I believe that China no longer considers us an ally. The cu….

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they ha….

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, m….

It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000 years. An….

Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United Sta….

The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polar….

Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Bec….

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exc….

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation..

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is n….

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology..

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism..

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks..