The solution to the consumption paradox is implementing sustainable practices which include changing the way resources are extracted and reusing resources that have already been mined, rather than embracing calls for extreme austerity.

We must start making policy that is based on a moral confidence in ourselves rather than constantly making policy to beat back a stigma that empowers the powerless.

Transcript of Shelby Steele's May 1, Bradley Lecture.

Shelby Steele will deliver the May 2006 Bradley lecture.

Shelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, New Republic,...

Wilfred M. McClay will deliver the April Bradley Lecture.

Opponents of capital punishment are extremely selective about the cases they make into public crusades. Strategically, that's smart; you don't want to lead your argument with "unsympathetic persons." But logically, it's problematic.

But we need a user’s manual for capitalism — one that somehow makes frighteningly evident the risks inherent in a lack of boundaries and that introduces an element of humility to the abilities we have to control and use information.

I smell a rat in the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi.