C. Bradley Thompson is the BB&T Research Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He received his Ph.D. at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

where he studied under

Gordon S. Wood Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for ''The Radicalism of the American Revolution'' (1992). His book ''The Creation o ...

. He was also a visiting scholar at

Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...

and

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

universities, and at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

. He also was a James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in 2004–05.

Career

Dr. Thompson has lectured around the United States and on C-SPAN on topics including

education reform Education reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education. The meaning and education methods have changed through debates over what content or experiences result in an educated individual or an educated society. Historically, t ...

, American history,

Marxism Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

, and

natural law Natural law ( la, ius naturale, ''lex naturalis'') is a system of law based on a close observation of human nature, and based on values intrinsic to human nature that can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (the express enacte ...

theory. He has also published essays on these topics in publications such as ''The Times Literary Supplement of London'' and ''The Objective Standard''.

Bibliography

Books

* Thompson, Bradley C. (1998). ''John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty''. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700611812. * Thompson, Bradley C and Brook, Yaron. (2010). ''Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea''. Routledge. ISBN 978-1594518317. * Thompson, Bradley C. and Forster, Greg, editors (2011). ''Freedom and School Choice in American Education''. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230112285. * Thompson, Bradley C. (2019). ''America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It''. Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1641770668.

References

External links

Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism
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