C. Bradley Thompson (born 1959) is an American writer who 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 university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

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 ...

. He was also a visiting scholar at

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

and

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

universities, and at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

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

Career

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

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

, American history,

Marxism Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, ...

, and

natural law Natural law (, ) is a Philosophy, philosophical and legal theory that posits the existence of a set of inherent laws derived from nature and universal moral principles, which are discoverable through reason. In ethics, natural law theory asserts ...

theory. He has also published essays on these topics in ''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. * Thompson, Bradley C and Brook, Yaron. (2010). ''Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea''. Routledge. * Thompson, Bradley C. and Forster, Greg, editors (2011). ''Freedom and School Choice in American Education''. Palgrave Macmillan. * Thompson, Bradley C. (2019). ''America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It''. Encounter Books.

References

External links

Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism
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