UPCOMING EVENTS The New Progressivism?  

Peter Berkowitz will deliver the November Bradley Lecture.

Conservatism and the Quest for Community  

Please note that the date of the December Bradley Lecture has changed. It will be held on Tuesday, December 8.

Recovering the Case for Capitalism  

Yuval Levin will deliver the January Bradley Lecture.

Do Liberals Know Best? Intellectual Self-Confidence and the Claim to a Monopoly on Knowledge  

Gerard Alexander will deliver the February Bradley Lecture.

Conservatism and the New Capitalism  

Irwin Stelzer will deliver the March Bradley Lecture.

The Mirage of Innocence: The Moral Economy of Modern America  

Wilfred M. McClay will deliver the April Bradley Lecture.

PAST EVENTS Herbert Croly, The New Republic, and The Promise of American Life  

Please note that this lecture has been canceled.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Speaker Biographies The Death of Conservatism  

Sam Tanenhaus will deliver September's Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Speaker Biographies  |  Full-length video | Audio  Unintended Consequences and Intended Non-Consequences  
MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Audio  For Truth and Goodness: Russia's Moral Revolution, 1987-91  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  The Reagan Revolution and Its Discontents  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Why Capitalism?  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video  Commerce, Competition, and the Court: An Agenda for a Constitutional Revival  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video  Abraham Lincoln at Two Hundred  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Why Even Atheists Should Applaud the Ten Commandments  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Two Battles That Saved the West: Lepanto 1571 and Vienna 1683  
MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Audio  On Religion and Rational Control  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Some Reflections on Burke's Reflections  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  What Is Education For? Four Simple Truths for Bringing American Education Back to Reality  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Gandhi, Churchill, and the British Withdrawal from India  

Arthur Herman, author of the New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World, discusses his new book Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age.

MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Does World War II Still Have a Meaning?  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Is Death Really Different? Reflections on Death Penalty Litigation  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  F. A. Hayek, Spontaneous Order, and the Mirage of Social Justice  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Science versus Anti-Science: From Washington to the Classroom  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  The Reluctant Realism of George H. W. Bush  
MATERIALS:    Event Summary  |  Full-length video | Audio | Transcript  War and Decision  
George W. Bush and the Future of Conservatism  
MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Audio  Czar Reed and the Rise of the American Empire He Didn't Want  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Not Playing the Game: How Winston Churchill Came to Power  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  The Capitalist Foundations of America  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  The Forgotten Man: How Election 1936 Defines Election 2008  

Amity Shlaes of Bloomberg News and the Council on Foreign Relations will deliver the April Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Audio  Attraction and Abandonment: Political Morality and Communist Ideals  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Defending Human Dignity  
MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Audio  The Poverty Issue at the End of History  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  The Ugly Americans: How Not to Lose the Global Culture War  
MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Audio  The Wars on Terror  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Andrew W. Mellon: An Extraordinary Life  
MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Audio  Lincoln at Gettysburg  

Ronald C. White of the San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Huntington Library will deliver the September Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Audio  Just Americans  

Robert Asahina of New York University delivers the June Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links White Guilt and War  
MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Winning the Race  

John H. McWhorter of the Manhattan Institute delivers the April Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Commercial Virtue, Romantic Ecstasy  

Francis H. Buckley of the George Mason University School of Law delivers the March Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  A Religious Idea Called "America": How Puritanism Created It, What It Means, Why It Matters  

David Gelernter of Yale University and the Shalem Center delivers the February Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Augustine's Enduring Legacy  

Robert Louis Wilken of the University of Virginia delivers the January Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  The New Hollywood  

Edward Jay Epstein of Slate delivers the December Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  The Use and Abuse of Holocaust Memory  

Walter Reich of the George Washington University delivers the November Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links U.S. Military  

Robert D. Kaplan of the Atlantic Monthly delivers the October Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Marshall & Co.  

Josiah Bunting III of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation delivers the September Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Full-length video  Fighting the New Terrorism  

John Yoo of the American Enterprise Institute and the University of California at Berkeley delivers the June Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  The Future of Culture in a Globalized World  

Tyler Cowen of George Mason University delivers the May Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Full-length video | Transcript  Raymond Aron and the End of Europe  

Christopher Caldwell of The Weekly Standard delivers the April Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  The Problem of Political Art  

Terry Teachout delivers the March Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Reading at Risk  

Dana Gioia of the National Endowment for the Arts delivers the February Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Transcript  Immigration Reform  

Tamar Jacoby of the Manhattan Institute delivers the January Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Popular Culture in the Middle East  

Charles Paul Freund of Reason delivers the December Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  The Incomplete Triumph of Democracy in Africa  

Jeffrey I. Herbst of Princeton University delivers the November Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Competition in Government  

Christopher DeMuth of the American Enterprise Institute delivers the October Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Alexander Hamilton  

Author Ron Chernow delivers the September Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Full-length video  How to Think about Bioethics and the Constitution  

Diana Schaub of Loyola College in Maryland delivers the June Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Three Paths to Modernity  

Gertrude Himmelfarb delivers the May Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  The Chicken v. the Eagle  

Amity Shlaes of the Financial Times delivers the April Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  The End of Europe?  

Niall Ferguson of the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business delivers the March Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Transcript  One Nation under Therapy  

Sally Satel and Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute deliver the February Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  The Limits of Friendship  

Joseph Epstein delivers the January Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Leo Strauss's Perspective on Modern Politics  

The media has been rife with dramatic surmises about the impact of Leo Strauss’s political theory but journalists have not devoted much time to a study of his corpus. Thomas L. Pangle of the University of Toronto examines Leo Strauss's political theory for the December Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and How It Grew  

Has American politics entered a period of Republican ascendancy--or is that an illusion? Alan Ehrenhalt delivers the November Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Transcript  The Blank Slate  

Steven Pinker of Harvard University delivers the October Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video | Transcript  Coercing Virtue  

Robert H. Bork of the American Enterprise Institute delivers the September Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Lessons from the Demise of Détente  

Kiron K. Skinner of Carnegie Mellon University and the Hoover Institution delivers the final lecture in the 2002-2003 Bradley Lecture Series.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  The Gulag  

Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post delivers the May Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The Invention of Hispanics and the Reinvention of America  

Journalist and author Richard Rodriguez delivers the April Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  What Is Israel For?  

David Gelernter of Yale University delivers the March Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  The Progress Paradox  

We are steadily better off yet steadily feel worse about our circumstances.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Cuba's Future--and Ours  

AEI scholar Mark Falcoff discusses Cuba's future at this Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The Human Nature Project  

Lionel Tiger of Rutgers University discusses the genetic sources of human behavior.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The Skeptical Conservative  

The key is to deploy our autonomy in the present in a way that recognizes its limitations, to maximize the possibilities of the future.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  Post-Welfare-Reform Welfare  

In the second Bradley Lecture of the 2002-2003 season, Douglas J. Besharov discusses what the future holds for welfare reform.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The Ku Klux Klan and the Separation of Church and State  

Philip A. Hamburger of the University of Chicago Law School opens the 2002-2003 Bradley Lecture season.

Documents and Links What's Become of Honor?  

James Bowman of the Times Literary Supplement delivers the final Bradley Lecture of the 2001-2002 season.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  How Congress Evolves  

Nelson W. Polsby, the Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, delivers this Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  Globalization  

John Gray of the London School of Economics delivers this Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  Positive, Transferred, and Negative Nationalism  

John O' Sullivan, United Press International, delivers this Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  Skepticism and Freedom  

Richard A. Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School and the Hoover Institution delivers this Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  Radical Reform  

Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit delivers this Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  The Burden of Bad Ideas, Part II  

Heather MacDonald delivers the third of the Institute's 2001-2002 Bradley Lectures.

The Demagoguery of Democratic Theory  

Peter Berkowitz, an associate professor at the George Mason University Law School, delivered the second of the Institute's 2001–2002 Bradley Lectures on November 5.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Financing Choice  

Caroline M. Hoxby of Harvard University delivers the final Bradley Lecture of the 2000-2001 season.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Listening to China  

Richard Bernstein of the New York Times presents the May Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The Future of Life  

Edward O. Wilson of Harvard University presents the April Bradley Lecture.

Documents and Links Federalism  

J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit delivers the March 2001 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Postmodern Medicine  

Sally Satel of AEI and the Yale University School of Medicine delivers the fifth 2000-2001 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  Courting Danger  

Bureaucratic Legalism was once a great blessing, then in recent years began to become something of a nuisance, and is now on its way toward becoming a genuine menace to privacy, to cooperation, and to common sense.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Art in an Era of Intolerance  

Lynne A. Munson, AEI, presents the November Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Why Socialists Fail in America  

Seymour Martin Lipset, George Mason University and the Woodrow Wilson Center, delivers the October Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The Birth of the New Israel  

Yoram Hazony of the Shalem Center delivers the June Bradley Lecture.

Documents and Links How the New Elite Is Changing American Culture  

David Brooks of the Weekly Standard delivers the May Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Two Concepts of Secularism  

Wilfred McClay, SunTrust Professor of Excellence in the Humanities at the University of Tenessee, delivers the April Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Buying Democracy  

George L. Priest of Yale Law School delivers the March Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The City and Its Successors  

Fred Siegel, professor of history at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, delivers the February Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links What's Sex Got to Do With It?  

Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, delivers the January Bradley Lecture.

Property and Freedom  

Richard Pipes, the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus, at Harvard University, delivers the December Bradley Lecture.

Documents and Links A Search for a Historic Yeltsin  

Leon Aron, resident scholar at AEI, delivers the November Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links We've Been Here Before  

In this Bradley Lecture, Michael Barone argues that immigrants of nineteenth-century America socially resemble today's generation of immigrants.

Documents and Links Toward a New Public Philosophy  

James W. Ceaser delivers the March 8, 1999 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Where the Boys Are  

AEI scholar Christina Hoff Sommers delivers this Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Bowling with Tocqueville  

Everett Carl Ladd delivers the first of the 1998-1999 Bradley Lectures.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links What's Wrong with Conservatism  

Professor Charles Kesler of Claremont McKenna College delivers the final 1997-1998 Bradley Lecture on June 8.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Is Manliness A Virtue?  

Harvey C. Mansfield presents the October Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  Should Government Change Social Norms?  

Cass R. Sunstein of the University of Chicago Law School delivers the November 1996 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links New Institutions for a New Cultural Establishment  

David Gelernter of Yale University delivers the October 1996 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Patriotism  

Walter Berns of AEI delivers the September 1996 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Violent Crime and Representative Government  

John J. DiIulio, Jr. of the Brookings Institution, Manhattan Institute, and Princeton University delivers the June 1996 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Did We Really Lose the War on Poverty?  

Christopher Jencks of Northwestern University delivers the May 1996 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Who Needs an Arts Policy?  

Joseph Epstein, editor of American Scholar, delivers the April 1996 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Rethinking the New Deal  

George L. Priest of Yale Law School delivers the February 1996 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Neoconservatism  

Norman Podhoretz of the Hudson Institute delivers the January 1996 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The Art of Association  

Francis Fukuyama of the RAND Corporation delivers the November 1995 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Telling the Truth  

Lynne V. Cheney of the American Enterprise Institute delivers the October 1995 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Is Racism a Western Idea?  

Dinesh D'Souza of the American Enterprise Institute delivers the April 1995 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values  

Gertrude Himmelfarb delivers the February 1995 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Thomas Jefferson and the Idea of Equality  

Gordon S.Wood of Brown University delivers the January 1995 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links A Nation Under Lawyers  

Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard University delivers the November 1994 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links What's Wrong with the Media and How to Put it Right  

Paul Johnson delivers the October 1994 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Who Stole Feminism?  

Christina Hoff Sommers of Clark University delivers the September 1994 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links From Parchment to Power  

Robert A. Goldwin of the American Enterprise Institute delivers the July 1994 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Liberty, Equality, and Unborn Human Beings  

Robert George of Princeton University delivers the June 1994 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Living Dangerously  

Leon R. Kass of the University of Chicago delivers the March 1994 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Countercultures  

Irving Kristol delivers the January 1994 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The Feminist Mistake  

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese of Emory University delivers the October 1993 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Defining Deviancy Up  

Charles Krauthammer delivers the September 1993 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Periclean Athens and Modern Democracy  

Donald Kagan of Yale University delivers the June 1993 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Fallacies of Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism  

Kwame Anthony Appiah of Harvard University delivers the May 1993 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The Collapse of Socialism  

Eugene D. Genovese of the University Center in Georgia delivers the May 1992 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links What Is Man that Thou Art Mindful of Him?  

Hillel Fradkin of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago delivers the April 1992 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Continents and Compass Points  

Bernard Lewis of Princeton University delivers the March 1992 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links The Spirit of Postmodern Politics  

Thomas Pangle delivers the February 1992 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Is There a Woman's Perspective in Literature?  

Carol Iannone delivers the December 1991 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links Two Paths to Black Power  

Glenn Loury delivers the November 1991 Bradley Lecture.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links