This Bradley Lecture is based on Brooks’s new book, “The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise” (Basic Books, May 2012).

In this Bradley Lecture, Francis Fukuyama will discuss how understanding the difficulties societies have had with the institution-building process can give us a greater appreciation for the problems of today's weak states.

At this Bradley Lecture, Walter Russell Mead will discuss why the core institutions, ideas and expectations that shaped American life for the 60 years after the New Deal don’t work anymore.

This lecture comes in three parts. First, a bit of general scene setting about the peculiarity of the current debate over Progressivism; second, a look at a few case studies of individual...

At this Bradley Lecture, Charles Murray will discuss how the divergence in class is affecting American life and what we can expect in the future.

Twenty years ago, AEI launched the Bradley Lecture series to explore the important ideas that have shaped Western civilization and modern American politics.