C. Bradley Thompson

CEE guest speaker video interviews — new location

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All CEE videos are now hosted at YouTube. Thanks to Chris Vaughan for performing the gargantuan task of transferring the material. Anil Singh-Molares on Microsoft and entrepreneurship.Terry Noel on The Virtuous Entrepreneur.Emily Chamlee-Wright on non-profits and the recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina.Steven Horwitz on Wal-Mart to the rescue after Hurricane Katrina.David Mayer on Thomas Jefferson, […]

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Pajama-boy Nietzscheans — Thompson essay

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Excellent essay by Professor C. Bradley Thompson diagnosing prominent strains of the weird left and the sometimes-weirder right, both deeply anti-liberal, anti-Enlightenment, and anti-American-founding. Link. the principles and institutions of the American Founding are now under assault from the nattering nabobs of both the progressive Left and the reactionary Right. These two ideological antipodes share

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Do conservatives value economic liberty?

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The question matters because many smart libertarians and conservatives, Bryan Caplan included, are wondering whether the two groups can overcome their differences, either for short-term coalitions on particular issues and elections or to create a longer-term movement. My view is that the philosophical differences between the two militate against long-term compatibility, though there are prospects

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Kaizen Issue 8 published

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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has published its eighth issue of Kaizen [pdf], focusing on the theme of Education and Entrepreneurship. It features my interview with Steve Mariotti, founder of the excellent Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), an organization dedicated to providing entrepreneurship education to low-income youths. Also featured are guest speakers David Mayer,

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Interview: C. Bradley Thompson on Leo Strauss and the neo-conservatives

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My two-part interview at CEE with Dr. C. Bradley Thompson about his forthcoming book Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, focusing on the early 20th-century political philosopher Leo Strauss’s influence on the founders of Neoconservativism. Part I Part II More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.

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