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Thomas L. Krannawitter


Thomas L. Krannawitter

Thomas L. Krannawitter is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hillsdale College, where he teaches American politics and political philosophy and directs the Washington-Hillsdale Intern Program. He is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, where previously he was Vice President. He has also taught at Claremont McKenna College and Azusa Pacific College, and he teaches in the summer graduate program in American History and Government at Ashland University. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in political science from the Claremont Graduate University, and two Bachelor's degrees—one in political science and another in communications—from Fort Hays State University in Kansas, his home state. He has received graduate and research fellowships from the John M. Olin Foundation, the H.B. Earhart Foundation, the Winston Churchill Society, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Institute for Human Studies, and he was a Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in 1998.

Dr. Krannawitter is co-author of A Nation Under God? The ACLU and Religion in American Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) and a contributing author to Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the 19th Century (Lexington Books, 2005). He has been published in journals and newspapers, including Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Investors Business Daily, and Orange County Register. He has made numerous appearances on nationally syndicated radio including National Public Radio of Chicago, The Hugh Hewitt Show, and The Dennis Prager Show. Dr. Krannawitter is editor of a PBS website on George Washington , and he has spoken widely before civic, political, educational, and religious organizations on the American Founding, constitutional jurisprudence, citizenship, classical and modern political philosophy, and he has testified before the California legislature.

Articles on this Site

Ward Churchill and Multiculturalism: Why American Schools are becoming Anti-American

Posted on August 22, 2007 in Writings

Books in Brief: Lincoln Unmasked

Posted on March 14, 2007 in Claremont Review of Books

Getting Rid of Racial Preferences

Posted on December 19, 2006 in Investor’s Business Daily

Racial Preferences Mean Big Government

Posted on October 30, 2006 in Writings

Books in Brief: The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science

Posted on January 6, 2006 in Claremont Review of Books

Why Lincoln Still Matters

Posted on February 11, 2005 in Precepts

What is an American?

Posted on January 1, 2005 in Writings

Defending Thomas

Posted on December 13, 2004 in Precepts

Lincoln for Liberals

Posted on August 30, 2004 in Claremont Review of Books

L.A. County's Seal and the Real Agenda of the ACLU

Posted on June 9, 2004 in Writings

Dividing the House

Posted on May 31, 2004 in Writings

Baseball: A Platonic View

Posted on March 11, 2004 in Writings

Lincoln's Birthday

Posted on February 12, 2004 in Precepts

An Introduction to Citizenship for New Americans

Posted on January 8, 2004 in Writings

Reflections on Veterans Day

Posted on November 11, 2003 in Precepts

Thinking About Thinking

Posted on November 3, 2003 in Writings

The Ugly Politics of the Boxes

Posted on July 15, 2003 in Writings

Introduction of Michael Ramirez

Posted on May 9, 2003 in Writings

Against Multiculturalism

Posted on February 7, 2003 in Precepts

The Intellectual Errors and Political Dangers of Multiculturalism

Posted on February 7, 2003 in Writings

Letter to the Editor of the Los Angeles Times

Posted on November 22, 2002 in Golden State Center

The Burden of War

Posted on November 21, 2002 in Precepts

A Political Forecast

Posted on November 14, 2002 in Golden State Center

George Washington and Independence Day

Posted on July 3, 2002 in Precepts

Courts Show Us the Crisis of Our Time

Posted on June 28, 2002 in Precepts

The ACLU's Assault on Religion and Morality

Posted on June 24, 2002 in Precepts

Claremont Institute Announces 2002 Lincoln Fellows

Posted on June 19, 2002 in Precepts

Dishonest About Abe

Posted on May 10, 2002 in Claremont Review of Books

Father Abraham Under Fire Again

Posted on May 10, 2002 in Precepts

Happy Birthday, Mr. Jefferson

Posted on April 13, 2002 in Precepts

Silencing the People, Empowering the Government

Posted on February 21, 2002 in Precepts

Christmas, War, and the American Mind

Posted on December 21, 2001 in Precepts

Books in Brief: The Broken Hearth

Posted on November 28, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books

Broken Hearth, Broken Hearts

Posted on November 25, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books

Prince of Peace, God of War

Posted on September 27, 2001 in Precepts

Constitution Day

Posted on September 17, 2001 in Precepts

The Party of Jefferson vs. The Boy Scouts?

Posted on August 3, 2001 in Precepts

America is Worth Defending

Posted on July 23, 2001 in Ballistic Missile Defense Project

Not Progress, But Progressivism

Posted on July 4, 2001 in Precepts

Ebony Magazine and the Non-Existence of Black Conservatives

Posted on June 18, 2001 in Precepts

Campaign Finance Reform: This Is Progress?

Posted on April 6, 2001 in Precepts

American Constitutionalism and the Statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln

Posted on September 2, 2000 in Writings

Introduction of Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Posted on August 18, 2000 in Writings

Movie Critics Swamp the Swamp Fox

Posted on July 28, 2000 in Precepts

Establishment Clause Is Misunderstood

Posted on April 18, 2000 in Writings

Constitutional Government and Judicial Power

Posted on January 6, 2000 in Writings

We Hold These Values To Be Our Preferences?

Posted on July 4, 1999 in Writings

Constitution Day

Posted on September 17, 1998 in Writings

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