The following are the prepared remarks of Samuel Gregg upon receiving the 2024 Bradley Prize, an award to “honor scholars and practitioners whose accomplishments reflect The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation’s mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism.”
Good Evening. When Rick Graber called to tell me that I had been awarded the Bradley Prize, I was lost
for words. As my mother will tell you, usually in exasperated tones, that doesn’t often happen to me.
But one reason for my shock was my knowledge of previous Bradley Prize recipients.
Consider some of those people: John Taylor, Amity Shlaes, Robert George, Gary Becker, Edward
Meese, Thomas Sowell, Rabbi Lord Sacks, Allan Meltzer, and I could go on. They include Nobel
economists, distinguished historians and legal scholars, four-star generals, Cabinet…
