Bradley Lectures Podcast

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Is civil society eroding or evolving? Apr 08, 2019

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What is social capital? And whatever it is, are Americans losing it? In his 1998 lecture, “Bowling with Tocqueville”, Everett Carl Ladd explained that he did not think so: His data and analysis led him to optimism about the state of participation in civil society, such as churches, recreational leagues, and even local politics. But […]

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Abraham Lincoln at 200 with Walter Berns Feb 15, 2019

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In this episode of the Bradley Lecture Series Podcast, released for President’s Day 2019, Walter Berns discusses the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. The ideas contained in this lecture were the fruits of life-long study and reflection, and Professor Berns offers us additional reasons for sharing his regard for Lincoln, a man supreme in […]

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Defining deviancy up with Charles Krauthammer Jan 29, 2019

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In this episode of the Bradley Lecture Series Podcast, Charles Krauthammer discusses “Defining Deviancy Up.” This lecture was originally delivered at AEI in 1993. Dr. Krauthammer worried that Americans were beginning to define typical, healthy behaviors as deviant, changing everything from middle-class family life to ordinary sexual relationships, all while giving a pass to genuine […]

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: What went wrong with the media and how to put it right with Paul Johnson Dec 21, 2018

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In this episode of the Bradley Lecture Series Podcast, Paul Johnson discusses “What went wrong with the media and how to put it right.” This lecture was originally delivered at AEI in October of 1994. This lecture predated “alternative facts” and “fake news,” and, most importantly, it was given before the internet became part of […]

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Conservative internationalism: Armed diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan with Henry Nau Nov 19, 2018

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In this episode of the Bradley Lecture Series Podcast, Henry Nau discusses “Conservative internationalism: Armed diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan.” Two schools of thought typically emerge when Americans debate their place in the world: a realist, nationalist school and a liberal internationalist school. In simple terms, they ask, “Are we to be ‘Fortress […]

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: The clash of civilizations with Samuel Huntington Oct 04, 2018

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Professor Samuel Huntington discusses his famous essay “The Clash of Civilizations" and his hypothesis that conflicts in the post–Cold War world will no longer be defined by ideology or economics. Rather, they will be about culture and culture’s broadest level of identity short of what distinguished human beings from other species — civilization.

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Did we really lose the War on Poverty with Christopher Jencks Sep 25, 2018

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Professor Christopher Jencks evaluates the impact of major social welfare programs dating back to the New Deal, concluding that, contrary to popular opinion, they have done a better job over the past generations than most of us realize.

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: From Victorian virtues to modern values with Gertrude Himmelfarb Sep 17, 2018

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Gertrude Himmelfarb speaks about the cultural transformation from Victorian virtues to modern values in a morally relativist society. She argues that people during the Victorian era developed policies and social norms to encourage hard work, self-reliance, self-respect, and pride in country, while people today have demoralized social debates.

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Human flourishing and human excellence with Leon Kass Sep 06, 2018

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Leon Kass discusses the exploration of human flourishing in Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” and its modern-day implications.

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: An introduction by Karlyn Bowman Aug 28, 2018

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AEI’s Karlyn Bowman introduces the Bradley Lectures, the newest offering on the AEI Podcast Channel, launching early in September 2018.

The Bradley Lectures were a series of occasional lectures at the American Enterprise Institute, made possible by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which aimed to enrich debate in the Washington policy community through exploration of the philosophical and historical underpinnings of current controversies.

For more than a quarter century, they attracted some of the most distinguished intellectuals in the country, including Irving Kristol, Robert Bork, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Walter Berns, James Q. Wilson, Bernard Lewis, Samuel Huntington, and others who have added immeasurably to our nation’s discourse. AEI is delighted to continue the legacy of the Bradley Lectures by offering them to a fresh audience.

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