Thomas G. West
Thomas G. West is an American academic. He is a professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, and the author of three books.Early life
West was born in 1945. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1967 and his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University in 1974. He served in the Vietnam War as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1969-70.Career
West taught at the University of Dallas from 1974 to 2011. Since 2011, he has been a professor of Politics at Hillsdale College.
West was Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage Foundation in 1988-89, and Salvatori Visiting Scholar at Claremont McKenna College from 1990-92. He is a director and Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, which has supported and publicized his research. He has translated, with Grace Starry West, Plato's Charmides, Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito, as well as Aristophanes' Clouds. He has also published Vindicating the Founders, an analysis and defense of American political thought in the founding of the United States in the 18th century.
West supported Donald J. Trump during the 2016 presidential election.Books
- The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom
- Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
- Plato's "Apology of Socrates": An Interpretation, with a New Translation
Edited volumes
- Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding.
- Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century.
- The American Founding and the Social Compact.
- Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government.
- Shakespeare as Political Thinker.
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