Bradley Prizes 2010 for Annual Report
Milwaukee’s Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation awarded its 2010 Bradley
Prizes to political journalist and author Michael Barone, Wall Street Journal
Editorial Page Editor Paul A. Gigot, Capital University Professor of Law Bradley
A. Smith, and Stanford University economist John B. Taylor in an inspiring and
entertaining ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington, D.C., on June 16. The $250,000 prizes recognize and celebrate the
honorees’ achievements in areas consistent with the Foundation’s mission – the
promotion and defense of liberal democracy, democratic capitalism, and
American ideas and institutions at home and abroad.
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 commentator on U.S elections and political
trends for the FOX News Channel. From 1982 to 1988, Mr. Barone was a member
of the editorial page staff of The Washington Post. From 1989 to 1996 and again
from 1998 to 2009, he was a Senior Writer for U.S. News and World Report.
From 1996 to 1998, he was a Senior Staff Editor at Reader’s Digest. A leading
authority on contemporary American politics, Mr. Barone is the principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics, published by National Journal
every two years and now in its 20th edition. He is also the author of Our Country:
The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (1990) and most recently Our
First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s
Founding Fathers (2007.) Over the years, he has written for many publications,
including The Economist, New York Times, The Weekly Standard, National
Review, The New Republic, Times Literary Supplement, and American
Spectator.
Paul Gigot is the Editorial Page Editor and Vice President of The Wall Street
Journal, a position he has held since 2001. Upholding the highest standards of
his profession, he produces the most influential and widely read editorial page
supporting free markets, the ideas of liberty, and strong national defense. Mr.
Gigot is also responsible for the newspaper’s op-ed articles and Leisure and Arts
criticism. In addition, he directs the editorial pages of the Journal’s Asian and
European editions as well as its OpinionJournal.com Web pages. He is the
moderator of the paper’s weekly half-hour news program The Journal Editorial
Report on the FOX News Channel. Mr. Gigot began his career as a professional
journalist at National Review. In 1980, he joined The Wall Street Journal as a
reporter in Chicago. Two years later, he became the Journal’s Asia correspondent
based in Hong Kong, where he won an Overseas Press Club Award for his
coverage of the Philippines. In 1984, Mr. Gigot became the first editorial page
editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia. The Wisconsin Historical Society
presented him the 2006 Lucius W. Neiman Award for Distinction in Journalism
and Communications.

 Bradley Smith is the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated
Professor of Law at Capital University Law School. He is also Senior Fellow at the
Goldwater Institute. One of the nation’s foremost authorities on election law and
campaign finance, Professor Smith was nominated by President Clinton to a seat
on the Federal Election Commission in 2000, where he served for five years,
including serving as Commission Chairman in 2004. Professor Smith’s writings
have appeared in leading law journals and popular publications such as The Wall
Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and National Review. He
is the author of Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform (2001.)
In 2005, Professor Smith founded the Center for Competitive Politics, of which
he continues to serve as Chairman. Under Center auspices, he has filed amicus
briefs in campaign finance and political speech cases at the Supreme Court.
Professor Smith is a frequent guest lecturer at the nation’s law schools. He
represented the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights as an election
observer overseas and has addressed election officials from developing
democracies.
John Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at
Stanford University. He is also the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics
at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and a Senior Fellow at
the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. A leading expert on
monetary policy, fiscal policy, and international economics, Professor Taylor
served as Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2001 to
2005. His book Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International
Finance in the Post-9/11 World chronicles that period. In his landmark 1993
paper Discretion versus Policy Rules in Practice, Professor Taylor proposed the
celebrated “Taylor Rule,” which is used by central banks worldwide as a guide to
setting interest rates. A champion of the role of free markets and rules-based
policies for achieving long-term economic growth, Professor Taylor is the author
most recently of Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions
Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis (2010.) He is also coeditor of Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them (2010.)