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About C. Bradley Thompson
C. Bradley Thompson is the BB&T Research Professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University and the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study Capitalism. He has also been a visiting scholar at Princeton and Harvard universities and at the University of London.
Professor Thompson is the author of the award-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 he was an associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.
His essay on "The Decline and Fall of American Conservatism" appears in the current issue of The Objective Standard. He is currently writing a book is on "The Ideological Origins of American Constitutionalism."
Dr. Thompson is also an occasional writer for The Times Literary Supplement of London and a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute. He has lectured around the country on education reform and his op-ed essays have appeared in scores of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. His lectures on the political thought of John Adams have twice appeared on C-SPAN.
Articles by C. Bradley Thompson
An Open Letter to America's Students--Will "Atlas Shrugged" Change your Life Forever? (March 2, 2008)
Why do these professors become viscerally angry at the mention of Ayn Rand's name? Why do they slander and smear her without actually engaging her ideas? Clearly, there is something they fear in Rand's philosophy, something they don't want you to read. What is it?
Iraqis Should Look To American Founding Fathers When Writing Their Constitution (March 1, 2005)
In framing a new constitution, Iraqis should embrace the ideals of America's founding fathers.
The Purpose of an Iraqi Constitution (March 22, 2004)
Modern history teaches that constitutions are easy to write. Over the course of the last 200 years, almost every nation in the world, including communist dictatorships and Islamic theocracies, has drafted a constitution. The sad reality, however, is that few have brought freedom.
An Open Letter to the People of Iraq (December 8, 2003)
In framing a new constitution, Iraqis should embrace the ideals of America's founding
Independence Day and American History (July 4, 2003)
The history of America was the history of freedom.
The Historians vs. American History (March 14, 2003)
The history of America was the history of freedom. Today, our children are being taught to be ashamed of America.
Cognitive Child Abuse in Our Math Classrooms (October 26, 2002)
The central cause of our children's incompetence in math is not the schools' lack of "accountability," but their embrace of the whole-math approach, which undermines the student's conceptual capacity.
Our Killing Schools - Public Schools: Intellectual and Moral Wastelands that Destroy America's Youth (June 4, 1999)
So what's happening? Why are America's adolescent boys so angry, and why are they expressing their anger through mindless acts of violence?
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