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Every three weeks, join us on Voices of Freedom for thought-provoking conversations on issues impacting our freedom and America's founding principles, with particular emphasis on free speech, educational freedom, and free enterprise. Voices of Freedom features Rick Graber, President of The Bradley Foundation, talking to remarkable individuals within the Bradley community, including grantees, Bradley Prize winners, and more. Our focus on these areas reflects the intent of the foundation's namesakes, Lynde and Harry Bradley, who wanted to preserve the freedoms that were essential to their success for future generations.
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- 3 days ago38 min
Interview with Rabbi Mendel Shmotkin
An Interview with Rabbi Mendel Shmotkin, CEO and Executive Vice President, Lubavitch of Wisconsin Many Americans encounter Jewish life from the outside — a menorah lit in a public square or a neighbor who keeps kosher. Fewer understand the faith, practice, and centuries of tradition behind those moments. At the same time, antisemitism — what our guest calls "the oldest hatred" — is rising around the world. From the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel to last December's attack on a Chanukah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia, to increasing crimes against Jews in Europe and America, Jews are once again confronting attacks on their way of life and even threats to their right to exist. Since 1968, Lubavitch of Wisconsin has worked to meet every Jew in the state with love and concern. It has grown into the state's largest Jewish educational and outreach effort, with more than 100 programs serving Jews and Jewish families from preschool through college and beyond. Our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom is Rabbi Mendel Shmotkin, CEO and Executive Vice President of Lubavitch of Wisconsin and the son of its founders. After co-founding a yeshiva in Detroit, he returned home to Milwaukee as an emissary in 1997 and has since helped found or lead many of the organization's cornerstone institutions, including the Milwaukee Community Cheder, The Shul Bayside, Bader Hillel Academy, and Bader Hillel High School. His conviction is simple: the answer to darkness is to turn on more light. Topics Discussed on this Episode: Growing up in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and making his family's mission his own What it means to live a Jewish life, and why its virtues fit so naturally with American life Lubavitch of Wisconsin's work serving every Jew in the state, regardless of affiliation or observance Why Jewish education matters, from the classroom to the college campus Answering rising antisemitism with more light, and what gives him hope for Jews and all Americans
- 3 weeks ago33 min
Interview with Governor Scott Walker
An Interview with Governor Scott Walker, President, Young America's Foundation, and 45th Governor of Wisconsin Young Americans today are coming of age in a world that can seem to be careening into the future. Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how we relate to technology and to one another. Socialism, communism, and radical Islamism are on the march, while loud voices — and at times violence — at home and around the world are testing young people's understanding of and confidence in our foundational principles of freedom, opportunity, and constitutional government. And on many college campuses, the case for liberty is seldom made and conservative ideas are simply unwelcome. For the generation that will carry the principles of freedom well into the second half of the 21st century, the challenges are real and the stakes are high. Our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom has dedicated this chapter of his career to preparing that rising generation. Governor Scott Walker is President of Young America's Foundation and served as the 45th Governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019, leading the state through some of the most significant reforms in modern state government. Since 2021, he has led YAF's work with students at the Reagan Ranch, the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, and regional sites across the nation. YAF hosts more conservative campus lectures than any other organization and reaches millions more through its digital presence. Governor Walker also recently joined the board of the Bradley Impact Fund, a donor-advised fund affiliated with The Bradley Foundation. Topics Discussed on this Episode: Governor Walker's early years as a pastor's son in Delavan and meeting President Reagan at Boys Nation What Act 10 has accomplished for Wisconsin and why it needs to remain in place Why he moved from elected office to leading Young America's Foundation Why President Reagan's ideas still resonate with students born decades after his presidency What conservative students face on campus today and what it takes to prepare them amid AI and competing ideologies His new role on the board of the Bradley Impact Fund What America's 250th anniversary and Wisconsin's nearly 180 years of statehood mean for the future — and what gives him hope
- Oct 1, 202627 min
Interview with Karin Lips
An Interview with Karin Lips, Founder and President, Network of enlightened Women (NeW) College should be a place where young people wrestle with big ideas and discover who they are. Yet for many conservative women, campus can feel so isolating that they just decide to keep their views to themselves before they even arrive. In the fall of 2004, a University of Virginia student returned from an internship in Washington, DC, looking for a place where college women could talk about public policy, including conservative ideas. When she asked the campus Women's Center to co-sponsor a group for conservative women, she was essentially laughed at and told, "not here." So she started a book club. Within a year, women on other campuses wanted chapters of their own. Today, the Network of enlightened Women is on more than 40 college campuses, with professional and alumnae chapters that carry its mission beyond graduation: to educate, equip, and empower women to be principled leaders for a free society. That student is our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom. Karin Lips is the Founder and President of NeW. A graduate of the University of Virginia and its School of Law, she practiced law at Wiley Rein and was a Resident Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. She is the author of You're Not Alone: The Conservative Woman's Guide to College and editor of She's Conservative: Stories of Trials and Triumphs on America's College Campuses. Topics Discussed on this Episode: How a rejected request at UVA sparked a book club that grew into a national network What NeW's mission to educate, equip, and empower looks like in practice How conservative women on campus are finding their voice What Karin is seeing in higher education today — and what university leaders should do differently What gives Karin hope about the next generation of young women
- Sep 10, 202639 min
Interview with James Hankins and Allen Guelzo
An Interview with James Hankins and Allen Guelzo, Authors of The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it is a moment to reflect not only on the founding of the United States, but on the much longer story that made the founding possible. The American experiment did not begin in 1776. Rather, the Founders drew on ideas about law, liberty, faith, and human dignity that reach back centuries, if not millennia. Our guests on this episode of Voices of Freedom have spent their careers tracing that story. James Hankins and Allen Guelzo met as boys, and they have been talking about the Western tradition ever since. Those conversations — and their decades of scholarly work spanning the full arc of the Western experience — have now produced The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, a two-volume history published by Encounter Books that runs more than two thousand pages, with hundreds of maps, works of art, and primary sources set alongside the narrative. James Hankins wrote Volume I, which begins with the ancient Greeks and continues through Rome, Christendom, and the Renaissance. He is Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, taught at Harvard for forty years, and is the founding editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library and the author of the prize-winning Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy. Jim is a 2026 Bradley Prize recipient. Allen Guelzo wrote Volume II, which picks up in 1500 and follows the West through the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the age of revolutions, and into our own century. Also a Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School, he is one of the country's leading historians of Lincoln and the Civil War, a three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, and the author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion and Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment. Allen is a 2018 Bradley Prize recipient. Topics Discussed on this Episode: How a boyhood friendship grew into a two-volume history of the Western tradition Where the golden thread first emerges in the ancient world, how it carries forward through the Renaissance and into the modern age — and where it came closest to breaking America's place in the arc of Western civilization as the country marks 250 years The character a free society requires, and whether it can still be taught What gives Jim and Allen hope that the Western inheritance will be carried forward by the next generation of students and readers
- May 21, 202630 min
Interview with Adam Josefczyk
An Interview with Adam Josefczyk, Co-founder and President, Forge Leadership Network Many young conservatives have genuine conviction and real potential — but without personal formation, a trusted network, and professional mentoring, they never find their footing in the public arena. Forge Leadership Network was created to change that. Our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom is Adam Josefczyk, co-founder and President of Forge Leadership Network. Since founding Forge in 2014, Adam has built a pathway for emerging Christian conservative leaders through formation, friendship, and preparation for influence in politics, culture, and business. Through its Leadership Summit, Mentorship Academy, and a growing national network of Forge Fellows, Forge is turning a sense of calling into enduring impact in the public arena. Before Forge, Adam worked in public policy in Ohio and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Dayton. Topics Discussed on this Episode: • What Adam observed working in Ohio policy and politics — and the gap it revealed for young conservatives entering the public arena • Why formation, friendship, and preparation must work together, and how the Forge Summit, Academy, and Network deliver all three • How Forge measures success — and why placement in roles of real responsibility is the right standard • The relationship between faith and political engagement, and the principles that guide how Forge navigates that tension • What gives Adam hope about the next generation, where Forge is headed, and what it can offer young people who want to make a difference
- Apr 30, 202636 min
Interview with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
An Interview with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, Scholar, Rabbi, and Senior Fellow, Tikvah At a time when faith is increasingly viewed as something to be kept out of public life, one of America's most compelling Jewish scholars and public intellectuals is making the opposite case — that religious liberty is not merely tolerated in America but is essential to its founding character and constitutional order. Our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom is Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York — the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States — and Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. A Senior Fellow at Tikvah and a scholar who has lectured at the Vatican and at Christian institutions across America and Europe, Rabbi Soloveichik brings both rigorous scholarship and the natural authority of a congregational rabbi to the most urgent questions about faith, freedom, and the American experiment. His most recent book, Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship, explores the qualities of moral courage and virtue that great leaders have drawn from faith across centuries. Rabbi Soloveichik is also a 2026 Bradley Prize winner. Topics Discussed on this Episode: Rabbi Soloveichik's path from a distinguished rabbinic family to Princeton, the synagogue, and the public square What America's oldest Jewish congregation reveals about the relationship between faith and the American Founding The resurgence of antisemitism in the West and what it tells us about the fragility of freedom The case for religious liberty as essential — not incidental — to America's constitutional order What it means to receive a Bradley Prize
- Apr 7, 202626 min
Interview with Senator Phil Gramm
An Interview with Senator Phil Gramm, Economist, Legislator, and Author From the classroom to the halls of Congress, to international banking, and the public square, few Americans have made a more sustained and consequential case for economic freedom than our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom. Senator Phil Gramm taught economics at Texas A&M University for twelve years before serving in the United States Congress for more than two decades — first as a Representative from Texas, then as United States Senator. His legislative record includes the Gramm-Latta Budget, which reduced federal spending and paved the way for the Reagan tax cut; the Gramm-Rudman Act, which placed the first binding constraints on federal spending; and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which modernized the nation's banking, insurance, and securities laws. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of The Myth of American Inequality and The Triumph of Economic Freedom. Senator Gramm is a 2026 Bradley Prize winner. Topics Discussed on this Episode: Senator Gramm's path from the classroom to Congress The legislative legacy of the Gramm-Latta Budget, Gramm-Rudman Act, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Whether Congress can recover a commitment to fiscal discipline How the country arrived at today's polarization over free enterprise and markets The case for economic freedom and what's at stake for the next generation
- Mar 24, 202636 min
Interview with Chris Krug
An Interview with Chris Krug, Publisher, The Center Square One of the keys to a healthy American democracy is an informed citizenry. Yet the decline of local news has left millions of Americans without reliable coverage of the institutions, policies, and elected officials that shape their daily lives. Statehouse reporting in particular has withered — leaving citizens in the dark about the decisions being made in their state capitals. Our guest today has dedicated his career to changing that. He leads one of the most ambitious efforts in the country to fill the local news void with high-quality, government accountability journalism that puts taxpayers first. Our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom is Chris Krug, Publisher of The Center Square, a nonprofit news organization launched in 2019 to provide statehouse and statewide coverage across the United States. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience in the media industry — from sports journalist to major market editor and publisher — Chris has built The Center Square into one of the country's most expansive sources of state and local government reporting. Topics Discussed on this Episode: Chris's path from sports journalism to leading one of the country's most ambitious local news organizations What it means for communities and democracy when local news disappears How The Center Square's taxpayer-first sensibility shapes its coverage Earning reader trust and what keeping that trust means to The Center Square How The Center Square navigates the pressures of AI, social media, and the struggles of legacy news organizations What gives Chris optimism about the future of local journalism
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Every three weeks, join us on Voices of Freedom for thought-provoking conversations on issues impacting our freedom and America's founding principles, with particular emphasis on free speech, educational freedom, and free enterprise. Voices of Freedom features Rick Graber, President of The Bradley Foundation, talking to remarkable individuals within the Bradley community, including grantees, Bradley Prize winners, and more. Our focus on these areas reflects the intent of the foundation's namesakes, Lynde and Harry Bradley, who wanted to preserve the freedoms that were essential to their success for future generations.
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