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Bradley Lectures Podcast

Great lectures from the past applied to pressing issues of the present, hosted by Jackson Wolford at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Saving Jonah from the Will

Saving Jonah from the Will

Should we impose term limits on members of Congress? Should we drastically expand the size of the House of Representativ... Read more

28 Apr 2020

1hr 21mins

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The evolution of the Bobo

The evolution of the Bobo

The late 20th century brought into existence a new species of moneyed elite. This highly educated nouveau riche combined... Read more

17 Feb 2020

1hr

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So you want to build an institution

So you want to build an institution

From Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France to Yuval Levin’s new book, A Time to Build, conservatives ha... Read more

3 Feb 2020

32mins

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The post-humanist counterculture

The post-humanist counterculture

Irving Kristol examines the origins and legacies of counterculture and how it continues to reverberate in the world of p... Read more

12 Aug 2019

24mins

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Abraham Lincoln at 200 with Walter Berns

Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Abraham Lincoln at 200 with Walter Berns

In this episode of the Bradley Lecture Series Podcast, released for President’s Day 2019, Walter Berns discusses the lif... Read more

16 Feb 2019

55mins

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You can’t say that! Censorship in public discourse (feat. Sam Abrams)

You can’t say that! Censorship in public discourse (feat. Sam Abrams)

For challenging the campus orthodoxy, he was condemned with every slander imaginable. The post You can’t say that! Censo... Read more

20 May 2019

52mins

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Making men normal

Making men normal

Can the state order its culture to a higher good? Should it? The post Making men normal appeared first on American Ente... Read more

15 Jul 2019

35mins

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Defining deviancy up with Charles Krauthammer

Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Defining deviancy up with Charles Krauthammer

In this episode of the Bradley Lecture Series Podcast, Charles Krauthammer discusses “Defining Deviancy Up.” This lectur... Read more

30 Jan 2019

41mins

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The measure of man

The measure of man

“We use our conceptions of human nature to manage our relationships, to control our own behavior, and guide our policies... Read more

3 Aug 2019

53mins

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: From Victorian virtues to modern values with Gertrude Himmelfarb

Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: From Victorian virtues to modern values with Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb speaks about the cultural transformation from Victorian virtues to modern values in a morally relati... Read more

17 Sep 2018

53mins

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Human flourishing and human excellence with Leon Kass

Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: Human flourishing and human excellence with Leon Kass

Leon Kass discusses the exploration of human flourishing in Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” and its modern-day implicat... Read more

7 Sep 2018

1hr 1min

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What is American education? Feat. Frederick Hess

What is American education? Feat. Frederick Hess

AEI’s Frederick Hess joins the show to discuss whether Peltzman had the right answers — or was even asking the right que... Read more

3 Jun 2019

46mins

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: The clash of civilizations with Samuel Huntington

Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: The clash of civilizations with Samuel Huntington

Professor Samuel Huntington discusses his famous essay “The Clash of Civilizations" and his hypothesis that conflicts in... Read more

4 Oct 2018

39mins

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Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: What went wrong with the media and how to put it right with Paul Johnson

Bradley Lecture Series Podcast: What went wrong with the media and how to put it right with Paul Johnson

In this episode of the Bradley Lecture Series Podcast, Paul Johnson discusses “What went wrong with the media and how to... Read more

21 Dec 2018

43mins

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Is civil society eroding or evolving?

Is civil society eroding or evolving?

What is social capital? And whatever it is, are Americans losing it? In his 1998 lecture, “Bowling with Tocqueville”, Ev... Read more

8 Apr 2019

36mins

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