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 received his Ph.D from Brown University, and 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 is also the author (with Yaron Brook) of Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea. Thompson has edited two books: The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams (Liberty Press) and Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader (M.E. Sharp). He was also a co-editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press).

Dr. Thompson is currently completing two books: one on "The Ideological Origins of American Constitutionalism" and another tentatively entitled "Manifesto for a Free Society."

Dr. Thompson is also an occasional writer for The Times Literary Supplement of London, The Objective Standard and various other national publications. He has lectured around the country on education reform and on the moral foundations of capitalism, 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, and he has been a guest on the John Stossel show.