Elva Romo joined the Foundation in 2024 as an Accountant, bringing six years of hands-on experience in operations and accounting. In her current role, Elva oversees daily accounting operations while...

Nicole Zorn is a Program Officer involved in many areas of the Foundation’s giving, including family and cultural renewal, public policy, and education reform. Before joining the Foundation in...

John is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Grace Matthews, Inc., a Milwaukee-based boutique investment bank specializing in the chemical and material science value chains. Over his 30+ year career,...

Eugene Scalia is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, co-chair of the firm’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group, and a senior member of the firm’s Labor...

Joel Frizzell joined the Foundation in 2023 as Program Assistant. He performs an assortment of administrative and financial services for the Foundation’s program, marketing, and financial...

Lauren Kuhn joined the Foundation as Director of Events in 2021. She is responsible for executing and supporting strategy for functions at both the Foundation and Impact Fund. Prior to her current...

John H. Cochrane Remarks - 2023 Bradley Prizes

Summer reading at its finest ignites the imagination, offering an escape to distant times and places. It also provides a deeper understanding of society, both past and present, which is vital to...

Prominent Human Rights Activist and Scholar

Chen Guangcheng is perhaps the world’s leading critic of the Chinese Communist Party, its oppression of the Chinese people, and the threat it poses to the...

Distinguished Economist and Scholar

Glenn C. Loury is Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University. He holds the B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern) and the Ph.D. in Economics (M.I.T)....

Acclaimed Scholar, Historian, and Author

Wilfred M. McClay is the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College. He was formerly the G.T. and Libby...

A carefully chosen book is a gift that can leave a lasting impression or simply surprise and delight on a winter afternoon.

Our work to protect and defend the foundations that make this country exceptional is relentless in the face of constant challenges. It’s easy to feel discouraged, overwhelmed, and even desensitized...

When it comes to battling the herculean problems in our own cities and towns, civil society is a vital and necessary tool. Yet the health of civil society continues to deteriorate, despite a rich...

Acclaimed Journalist and Author

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway provides unique and thoughtful reporting and analysis of American politics and culture. She helped launch and is a senior editor of the online...

President, The Fund for American Studies (TFAS)

For more than 40 years, Roger Ream has pursued his passion in the field of economic education, building programs that have preserved and expanded...

Amity Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, a foundation which is based at the birthplace of the thirtieth president in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, with an office in...

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation honors the life of Terry Teachout. An author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist well-regarded for his wide-ranging interests,...

Gift buying can be stressful, but you can never go wrong (well, almost) by showing someone you’ve taken the time to think about new ideas, stories, or eras that they may enjoy exploring.

Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (retired)

Judge Janice Rogers Brown was confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...

Financial Journalist and HistorianFounder and Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer

James Grant, financial journalist and historian, is the founder and editor ofGrant’s Interest Rate Observer, a...

Editor and Publisher, The New CriterionPresident and Publisher, Encounter Books

Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He writes...

Reading is one of the great joys of summer downtime. Whether you’re at the beach, a Northwoods lake or just sitting in the backyard, settling in with a good book can challenge old ways of thinking,...

RealClear Markets recently picked up an op-ed from Rick Graber discussing how many large foundations are now prioritizing social justice in all grantmaking. Rick’s premise is that while...

Michael W. Grebe is the retired President and Chief Executive Officer of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Previously, he served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Partner in the law firm...

Mark Rhode joined The Bradley Foundation in 2019 as the Director of Finance. He oversees the audit, tax, and financial reporting of the foundation. Mark has 23 years of experience with nonprofit and...

Stephen is the Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer. In this role, Stephen oversees the financial and operational functions at the Foundation as well as the investment portfolio. Prior...

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation honors the life of Walter E. Williams, a 2017 Bradley Prize winner and the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University since...

Read Rick Graber's latest op-ed on what the election tells us about the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism.

Paul Clement is a Wisconsin native who practices appellate law in Washington, D.C., and served as the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008. He is a Distinguished...

Rick Graber sat down with reporter Katelyn Ferral for an interview as part of the 2020 Cap Times Idea Fest. The wide ranging discussion addressed The Bradley Foundation's mission and giving, the...

In a recent op-ed, Bradley Foundation President Rick Graber addresses American exceptionalism in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, writing, "It’s precisely because America is exceptional that many of...

Milwaukee, Wis. Feb. 13, 2020 --The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) announced today that its new performance home will be called the “Bradley Symphony Center.” Named in honor of Harry and Peg...

The Milwaukee Business Journal reports on The Bradley Foundation's annual local giving.

Bradley Foundation President Rick Graber spoke with Today's TMJ4 about the Foundation's giving to local organizations in 2019:

Bradley Foundation President Rick Graber recently sat down with WTMJ-AM 620's Steve Scaffidi and guest host Carole Caine to discuss the Foundation's annual giving to local organizations.

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced it has distributed $11.3 million in grants this year to organizations in Milwaukee and throughout the state.

Today the Bradley Foundation announced that it has awarded more than $11 million in grants in 2019 to organizations in Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin, continuing its commitment to a vibrant...

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is pleased to announce that we have officially moved to new office space in downtown Milwaukee.

The Bradley Foundation mourns the loss of its friend Peter Collier. Peter was a courageous author and publisher, whose indelible contributions to the conservative world of ideas were belied by a...

Interview, UW-Madison

Forum, Marquette University Law School, Oct 18, 2019

Interview, The Daily Caller, June 30, 2019

Interview, WISN AM, June 30, 2019

Blog Post, The Bradley Foundation, May 1, 2019

Blog Post, The Bradley Foundation, May 1, 2019

Blog Post, The Bradley Foundation, April 17, 2019

Article, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 15, 2019

Article, Milwaukee Business Journal, April 15, 2019

Press Release, The Bradley Foundation, Apr. 15 2019

Larry P. Arnn is President of Hillsdale College, a position he has held since 2000. Under his leadership, Hillsdale perpetuates, through liberal education and sound learning, religious liberty and...

James W. Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1976. He is also the director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy at...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1969. As she grew up, she embraced Islam and strove to live as a devout Muslim. In 1992 Ayaan fled to the Netherlands to escape a forced marriage....

General John M. “Jack” Keane, United States Army, Retired, is president of GSI Consulting. He serves as chairman of the Boards of Directors of the Institute for the Study of War and the Knollwood...

Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts and is the founding director of the...

Darcy Olsen is President of the Goldwater Institute, a public policy research and legal center. Her leadership has been critical to the Institute’s success, including the development and enactment of...

Kimberley Strassel is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column, from her base in Washington, D.C.

Terry Teachout is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, the critic-at-large of Commentary, and the author of “Sightings,” a biweekly column for the Friday Journal about the arts in America. He...

Roger Ailes serves as the Chairman and CEO of FOX News as well as the Chairman of Fox Television Stations. In this position, Ailes oversees all national operations for FOX News and serves as a senior...

Paul D. Clement is a partner at Bancroft PLLC. Mr. Clement served as the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008. Before his confirmation as Solicitor General, he...

Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. was unanimously selected by the Purdue Board of Trustees on Thursday, June 21, 2012, to be the university's 12th president. Daniels assumed that role in January 2013, at the...

Yuval Levin is the founding editor of National Affairs, a quarterly journal of public policy and political thought. He is also the Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he...

Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington DC, and is Senior Adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)...

Dr. Edwin J. Feulner has served as the President of The Heritage Foundation since 1977. He was a founding Trustee of Heritage in 1973.

Edwin Meese III holds the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based public policy research and education institution. He is also the Chairman of Heritage’s...

William H. (Chip) Mellor serves as President and General Counsel of the Institute for Justice, which he co-founded in 1991. He litigates cutting-edge constitutional cases nationwide protecting...

Jeb Bush was elected the 43rd governor of the state of Florida in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. His second term as governor ended in January, 2007. He is Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors,...

Richard Epstein is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace....

Harvey Mansfield is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, Harvard University, where he has taught since 1962. He is also the Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on...

Allan H. Meltzer is the Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. Since 1989, he has also been a Visiting...

Michael Barone is the Senior Political Analyst for The Washington Examiner and Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is also a syndicated columnist and...

Paul A. Gigot is the Editorial Page Editor and Vice President of The Wall Street Journal, a position he has held since 2001. He is responsible for the newspaper’s editorials, op-ed articles, and...

Bradley A. Smith is the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law at Capital University Law School. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Goldwater Institute. One of the...

John B. Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University. He is also the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and...

Sir Martin Gilbert is the author of eighty-two books; for the totality of his published work he received a Doctorate of Literature from the University of Oxford. He has also authored twelve...

Arnold C. Harberger has worked in the field of policy economics for more than 50 years. He has written widely on cost-benefit analysis, tax policy, monetary policy, the economics of real exchange...

William Kristol is founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, a journal of politics and ideas located in Washington, D.C. He is also a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday, a contributor for the Fox...

The Federalist Society is an organization of law students, lawyers and others interested in the law dedicated to advancing an understanding of the principles underlying American law and furthering...

Gary S. Becker received his BA degree from Princeton University, and has Masters and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago. He taught at Columbia University for twelve years...

Alan Charles Kors teaches European intellectual history at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds the George H. Walker Endowed Term Chair. He is Senior Fellow at both the Foreign Policy...

Robert L. Woodson, Sr. is founder and president of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (CNE). CNE is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and demonstration organization that supports...

John Bolton is Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. His research areas of interest include foreign policy and international organizations. From August 2005...

Martin Feldstein is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University. For more than 20 years, he has also been President and CEO of the prestigious National Bureau of Economic...

Stephan Thernstrom is the Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard University. Abigail is vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Both are also Senior Fellows at the Manhattan Institute...

James Q. Wilson is the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. From 1961 to 1987, he was the Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University and from 1985 to 1997...

Fouad Ajami is the Majid Khadduri Professor and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C....

Clint Bolick is the President and General Counsel of the Alliance for School Choice (ASC) in Phoenix. Previously, Bolick co-founded and was vice president and general counsel of the Institute for...

Hernando de Soto is the founder of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima, Peru. De Soto played a major role in designing reforms that modernized Peru’s economic system, and he is...

Award-winning actor and philanthropist Gary Sinise has stood as an advocate for America’s veterans and active service members for more than thirty years. His commitment began in the early 1980s with...

An international religious leader, philosopher, award-winning author and respected moral voice, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was recently named the winner of the 2016 Templeton Prize in recognition of...

Andrew Roberts read modern history at Caius College, Cambridge, from where he is an honorary senior scholar and Ph.D. He has written twelve books, including Salisbury: Victorian Titan (which won the...

Charles Murray is the W. H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at the American Enterprise Institute. A social scientist and writer, he is the author of Losing Ground: American Social Policy,...

Christopher DeMuth is a distinguished fellow at Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. He was president of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research from 1986 to 2008 and D.C. Searle...

Philip Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Before coming to Columbia, he was the John P. Wilson Professor at the University of Chicago Law School,...

Walter E. Williams has served on the faculty of George Mason University as the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics since 1980. He has also served on the faculties of Los Angeles City...

Charles R. Kesler is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College.

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Allen C. Guelzo is Director of Civil War Era Studies and the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. During 2017-18, he has served as Visiting...

Robert P. George holds Princeton’s celebrated McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence and is Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. In addition, he has frequently...

The Honorable Reid Ribble retired as CEO of the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) in 2022. Before joining NRCA, Reid served six years in the U.S. House of Representatives. During his...

William Bergeron joined the Bradley Foundation Team in 1996. As the Foundation’s librarian, he catalogs and purchases books for Team members, manages the periodical collection, digitizes Foundation...

Kim Magnan joined the Foundation in 2018 as the Director for Human Resources and Administrative Services. Her previous experience includes 15 years in Human Resources Manager/Director roles for a...

Cleta Mitchell is an attorney with almost 50 years of experience in law, politics and public policy, advising nonprofit and issue organizations, corporations, candidates, campaigns, and individuals...

Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Jim Barry is President and CEO of Barry Commercial Real Estate Services, a real estate investment, brokerage and consulting firm headquartered in Milwaukee. Mr. Barry is a graduate of Marquette...

Pat is the Executive Chairman of Fiduciary Management, Inc. (FMI), an independent investment advisor with approximately $14 billion in assets under management. He analyzes stocks, markets and macro...

Carol Brick serves as Senior Executive Assistant to the President of the Foundation. Carol is a key support leader coordinating with the Foundation’s Board of Directors, executing conferences and...

Susan Millard provides a wide range of general office services and behind the scenes support for the Foundation staff, directors, and our guests. She joined the Foundation in 2014, having held...

Leah Weiler joined the Foundation in 2018 as Administrative Services Coordinator. She provides a wide array of administrative and clerical services in support of the Foundation's operations,...

Ingrid Gregg is a Senior Program Director involved in many areas of the Foundation’s giving including free enterprise, higher education, the Bradley Graduate and Post-Graduate Fellowship Program,...

Alicia Manning is the Vice President for Programs and oversees the Foundation’s giving. Since joining the Foundation in 1996, she has aimed to highlight the role of faith-based and private, voluntary...

Jason is a Program Director involved in many areas of the Foundation’s giving including K-12 education, public interest law, and the performing arts.

Dionne King is the Director of Operations and manages the Foundation’s day-to-day business activities. These include among other duties, facility and office management, providing administrative...

Jamie Freier oversees the Foundation’s grants administration process, runs its digital grants management system, supports team-to-team operations, and manages a variety of special projects. Prior to...

Ben Hannemann joined the Foundation as Director of Marketing in 2016. He is responsible for the Foundation’s digital, print, and event-based marketing efforts. Previously, he was Director of Mission...

Richard W. Graber was named President and Chief Executive Officer of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in July 2016. He has served on the Foundation’s Board of Directors since 2014. Prior to...

Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where he worked for more than 20 years writing opinion pieces on politics, economics,...

News Clip, TMJ4, Dec 13, 2018

Article, Milwaukee BizTimes, Dec 11 2018

Podcast, The Daily Signal, Dec 18, 2018

Article, The Daily Caller, May 16, 2018

Interview, WTMJ-AM 620, May. 10, 2018

Radio Interview, Wisconsin Public Radio, May 8, 2018

Article, The Hill, May 1, 2018

Interview, The Daily Signal, Feb 25, 2018