Literary, social, and, in the end, political themes of Russian art have resonated with every generation of Russians.

What should we call the literary age of Vasily Grossman, who wrote "Life and Fate," the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century?

Never in living memory has American politics been so unfocused as today. In the past fifty years, we have developed a methodological approach to the study of electoral politics that is subtle, sophisticated, and more than superficially enlightening. One can get a Ph.D. studying it, and it is, in fact,...

Steven Hayward will deliver the January 2011 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

George H. Nash will deliver the September 2010 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

James Bowman of the Times Literary Supplement delivers the final Bradley Lecture of the 2001-2002 season.

In "My Father at 100: A memoir", Ron Reagan attacks his father on several fronts, yet it seemed to lack substance on why he disagreed with him.

"Never (that I know) has a single lifetime borne such literary and philosophical fruit," William F. Buckley Jr. has observed of Norman Podhoretz's career. Named editor of Commentary magazine in 1960 at the age of thirty, Mr. Podhoretz built the erudite small journal into the nation's most important organ of...