Words of Impact Archive

Each December the Bradley Impact Fund shares a Words of Impact essay authored by a public intellectual, policy expert, or grassroots advocate. Enjoy past essays below.
2025 words of impact

2025 Words of Impact Essay

James Piereson: What will we conserve?  Read here.

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2024

William B. Allen:
Why Self-Discovery Requires Belonging

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2023 Words of Impact

2023

Amity Shlaes: 
The Curse of Bigness: Economics Über Alles; and Collectivism and Man at Yale

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2022 words of impact

2022

Robert P. George: 
Constitutional Structures and Civic Virtues

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2021 words of impact

2021

August Peters-White:
We are Everything They Say We are,  But So much More

Robert Woodson: 
The Jailer Called Welfare

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2020 words of impact

2020

Janice Rogers Brown: 
The Wisdom of Sesame Street or the Madness of Mao

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2019 words of impact

2019

Wilfred M. McClay: 
Thoughts on Land of Hope:  An Invitation to the Great American Story

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2018 word of impact

2018

Allen C. Guelzo: 
What is Exceptional about American Exceptionalism?

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