Diana Schaub delivers the tenth of the 2003-2004 Bradley Lectures.

In his new book, Paul A. Rahe explores the subtle dangers of "soft despotism" in democracies.

America was founded as a commercial republic, a type most thought to promote the civic spirit that would ensure its democratic vitality. But there are "cultural contradictions" in commerce.

David Cannadine of the University of London and National Portrait Gallery (London) will deliver the October Bradley Lecture.

Having learned the values of self-sufficiency and accumulation of wealth in nineteenth-century Pittsburgh, Andrew Mellon rose to become one of America’s greatest financiers. Despite painful...

In the coming weeks and months, as the debt ceiling debate rages and new budget battles arise, we will hear more and more class-warfare rhetoric about corporate jets, miserly rich people, and the need for higher taxes. Free-enterprise advocates must be ready to make a three-part case.

The root question in the debate over the federal estate tax is whether America wants to encourage the hereditary transfer of wealth over many generations, creating, in effect, a permanent aristocracy.

Like Harry Truman, Sarah Palin is a natural-born executive.

Walter Berns argues that theU.S. Constitution has endured so well because it is written on the hearts of Americans.