With the threat of a veto hanging over its head, the National Defense Authorization bill heads to the House floor today for debate. Among the provisions are several dealing with the question of a nuclear weapons armed Iran, and what the United States should do to avert a crisis, prepare to handle the threat, or eliminate the threat altogether.

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

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Push Jeffords far enough and ina nanosecond, he can offer to switch parties if the Minority Leader will let him keep his chairmanship.

A university is more than the sum of its ethnic parts. It is comprised of individuals — black, white, Hispanic, Asian and others — who should be admitted or rejected without their race or ethnic heritage making any difference.

Congress has made a good deal of progress on financial reform legislation; perhaps we have learned some lessons from the financial crisis after all.

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,...

For many years, community financial institutions have been denied fair and equal access to the secondary market. Banks prosper by making prudent loans with an adequate return and maintaining a reasonable cost structure. Today 97 percent of our banks are community banks and they are increasingly finding this business model under siege.