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About C. Bradley Thompson

C. Bradley Thompson is the BB&T research professor at Clemson University and the executive director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He has also been a visiting fellow at Princeton and Harvard universities and at the University of London. Professor Thompson is the author of the prize-winning book John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty. He has also edited The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams, Antislavery Political Writings, 1833–1860: A Reader and was an associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. His current book project is on “The Ideological Origins of American Constitutionalism.”

C. Bradley Thompson's Articles

Education & Parenting, Philosophy

Liberal Education and the Quest for Truth, Freedom, and Greatness

C. Bradley Thompson August 14, 2016

On the nature and importance of liberal education, the extent to which it has been jettisoned from American universities, and the values being lost.

Education & Parenting

Education in a Free Society

C. Bradley Thompson November 20, 2013

Picks up where Thompson’s essay “The New Abolitionism: Why Education Emancipation is the Moral Imperative of Our Time” (TOS Winter 2012–13) left off; asks and answers questions such as: What would a fully free market in education look like? How would it work? Would it provide quality, affordable education for all children, including those from lower-income families? If so, how?

Education & Parenting

The New Abolitionism: Why Education Emancipation is the Moral Imperative of Our Time

C. Bradley Thompson November 20, 2012

Tackles the problem that is the so-called public schools, showing that they are fundamentally corrupt and unfixable, and must be abolished.

History, Politics & Rights

Why Marxism—Evil Laid Bare

C. Bradley Thompson May 20, 2012

Examines key ideas that have driven Marxists and socialists—from Asian and European dictators to American college professors—to enact or advocate an ideology that is historically and philosophically pure evil.

Politics & Rights

The Decline and Fall of American Conservatism

C. Bradley Thompson August 20, 2006

Examines today's putatively splintered conservative movement, zeros in on the essence of its two dominant factions, and shows the movement to be only superficially split while fundamentally unified—and stultified—by the conservatives' universal acceptance of a morality that is antithetical to liberty.