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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 2008

Twenty years ago, the American Enterprise Institute launched the Bradley Lecture series to explore the important ideas that have shaped Western civilization and modern American politics. Supported by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, these monthly lectures were designed to enrich the political and policy debate of the Washington community, which is "usually and understandably devoted to more immediate and practical issues."

To celebrate this twentieth anniversary season, this year's program will consist of eleven lectures by AEI scholars, advisers, and adjuncts. Seven of the 2008-2009 lecturers were early participants in the series, some more than once. They include:

• Allan H. Meltzer, who lectured in 1989 on "What Keynes Really Said"
• Michael Novak, who spoke about "If Aquinas Were Alive Today"
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, who gave us "From Hegel to Marx to Lenin"
• Walter Berns on "Tocqueville and American Democracy"
• Harvey C. Mansfield on "Virtue and the Machiavellian Temptation"
• Leon R. Kass, M.D., who examined, in the third season, "Human Organs for Sale? Property, Propriety, and the Price of Progress"
• Leon Aron, who spoke about "Boris Yeltsin: The Founding Father"

Christopher C. DeMuth, AEI's president, who introduced the series on September 12, 1989, will lecture in this year's series.

A complete list of the 2008-2009 lectures follows:

September 8 "What Is Education For? Four Simple Truths for Bringing American Education Back to Reality," Charles Murray

October 6 "Some Reflections on Burke's Reflections," Gertrude Himmelfarb

November 3 "Tocqueville and the Idea of Rational Control," Harvey C. Mansfield

December 8 "Two Battles That Saved the West: Lepanto 1571 and Vienna 1683," Michael Novak

January 12 "The Ten Commandments," Leon R. Kass

February 9 "Abraham Lincoln at Two Hundred," Walter Berns

March 2 "Commerce, Competition, and the Court," Michael S. Greve

March 9 "Why Capitalism?" Allan H. Meltzer

April 13 "For Truth and Goodness: Russia's Moral Revolution, 1987-91," Leon Aron

May 11 "The Reagan Revolution and Its Discontents," Steven F. Hayward

June 8 "Unintended Consequences and Intended Non-Consequences," Christopher C. DeMuth

For more information about the Bradley Lecture Series, please visit www.aei.org/bradley/ or contact the AEI public affairs department at 202.862.4870.

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