Please note that this lecture has been canceled.

Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic, will deliver the October Bradley Lecture at AEI. Mr. Peretz will discuss Herbert Croly, a founding editor of The New Republic, and his seminal book, The Promise of American Life (1909). Promise of American Life made quite a stir when it was released one hundred years ago, and influenced the thinking of many, including the followers of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The New Republic was born out of this book. Many controversies followed.

Martin Peretz, journalist, academic and entrepreneur, has been editor-in-chief of The New Republic since 1974. He currently writes "The Spine," a blog for TNR online, and is cofounder of TheStreet.com. Mr. Peretz taught for many years at Harvard University and was the John W. Olin Lecturer in American Civilization at the University of Chicago. Mr. Peretz holds eight honorary doctorates from colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. In 1982, he was awarded the Jerusalem Medal. Martin Peretz is a director of fourteen mutual funds managed by the Dreyfus-Mellon Bank Group and a member of the board of Pershing Square. He is Managing Partner of Crimson III Partners, a hedge fund, and also of Montefiore Partners, a venture capital fund. He was a founding director of Leukosite, a bio-tech company now merged with Millenium Pharmaceuticals. For many years, he served as chairman and then honorary chairman of The Jerusalem Foundation. He is a trustee of Bard College, the Immune Disease Institute at the Harvard Medical School, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (also chairman of the Board of Overseers of YIVO) and the American Council for Trustees and Alumni.