Editor’s note: The Washington Examiner is honored to publish the unedited remarks of this year’s Bradley Prize honorees. Barry Strauss gave the speech below.

I would like to thank The Bradley Foundation for the signal honor it has granted me by making me one of the recipients of the 2025 Bradley Prize. I accept, with gratitude and humility. Permit me to say a few words about the subject I know best — higher education — a matter of importance for us all. As Plato said, to have a just society, you need to educate people correctly. And in America, higher education aims to educate the best and the brightest.

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