Bradley Lectures Podcast American Enterprise Institute

Elections come and go, but the more fundamental basis of state society--political order--endures.
Or does it?
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, please join the Bradley Lecture Podcast for a conversation with Dr. Fukuyama on his 2012 lecture, "The Origins of Political Order," and the question of whether that order is durable enough to survive whatever happens next.

Is capitalism working? How is it supposed to work? And what do we do if it fails?
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis these questions were more relevant than ever. Now, in the midst of economic turmoil and uncertainty brought on by COVID-19, they are questions once again on everyone's mind.
To help consider these old questions in a new context, Yuval Levin joins us to revisit his 2010 Bradley Lecture, "Recovering the Case for Capitalism."
The text of https://www.aei.org/research-products/speech/recovering-the-case-for-capitalism/ (Levin's 2010 lecture) can be found at http://aei.org/ (AEI.org).
This speech was originally delivered in 2010.

Judge Stephen

F. Williams (1936 – 2020) was not only a storied fixture of the United

States Court of Appeals’ D.C. Circuit, but a prolific author with wide-ranging

expertise.







In this episode of the Bradley Lectures Podcast, AEI Senior

Fellow Karlyn Bowman

and Resident Scholar Adam

J. White join to discuss Judge Williams’ lasting legacy and learn from his

lecture on efforts to liberalize post-Soviet Russia. We hope you will find that

there are lessons to be learned from both.







This lecture was originally delivered in January 2002.

Should we impose term limits on members of Congress? Should we drastically expand the size of the House of Representatives? Are Republicans republicans and Democrats democrats? 







Jonah Goldberg joins the show to discuss George Will’s Bradley Lecture, how Dr. Will humbled Young Jonah with an answer that launched a thousand op-eds, and to ruminate on political questions big and small.

The late 20th century brought into existence a new species of moneyed elite. This highly educated nouveau riche combined traditional bourgeois ethic with bohemian tastes to form a new species that David Brooks called the “Bobo.”







What became of the Bobos, and how does their legacy live on — or not — in today’s elite? Factual Feminist Christina Hoff Sommers joins “The Bradley Lectures Podcast” to femsplain how Brooks’ observations can help us better understand today’s social and political elites.







This lecture was originally delivered in May 2000.

From Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France to Yuval Levin’s new book, A Time to Build, conservatives have long been fascinated by the relationship between the American individual, state, and mediating institutions. Building properly-functioning institutions of all kinds – media, religious, or educational — is crucial to the politics and social lives of a self-governing people.







David Gelernter, Yale computer scientist and polymath, addresses the lack of institutions that would challenge growing left-wing domination of the cultural and educational landscapes. His Bradley Lecture, “New Institutions for a New Cultural Establishment,” examines with incisive wit how the center-right can build the institutions they need most.  







This lecture was originally delivered in October 1996.