Dr. Thomas L. Krannawitter is President of Speakeasy Ideas and proprietor of the Substack Liberty Lyceum: Zetetic Questions for the Zeitgeist. He is a member of the Mackinac Center’s Board of Scholars, and he also sits on the Scholarly Advisory Board at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Politics & Economics at the Claremont Graduate University. He has taught undergraduate and graduate classes at Claremont McKenna College (California), Hillsdale College (Michigan), Ashland University (Ohio), and George Mason University (Virginia), among other places.

He was formerly Director of Academic Programs and Vice President at The Claremont Institute, where he helped to launch The Claremont Review of Books in 2001.

He’s one of the principal instructors for the Leadership Program of the Rockies, and he frequently advises businesses and charitable organizations on communications, cultural development, branding, and fundraising. He is currently directing the Elite Leadership Program within J.R. Butler, Inc, one of the nation’s leading commercial glass and fenestration companies.

Dr. Krannawitter has testified before state legislatures, though he doesn’t put much faith in politicians. That’s why he focuses on teaching citizens, helping teachers, students, business owners, employees, and others to improve our modern American culture through persuasion and moving stories. Americans won’t get principled constitutional policies from their government until they demand politicians who are principled constitutionalists.

Dr. Krannawitter’s research and published writings have ranged from politics to history to constitutional law to economics to social commentary, from specific historic events to timeless philosophic questions.

His 2008 book, Vindicating Lincoln, was featured by The History Book Club and endorsed by the United States Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. His 2014 book, Crisis of Our House Divided: A Guide To Talking Politics Without The Noise, applies the lessons of Lincoln to our challenges today.

His most recent book, Save the Swamp: Career Guidebook for Budding Bureaucrats, is different. Swamp is funny. It’s satire. He has also contributed chapters to numerous edited, scholarly collections. Please check out Dr. Krannawitter’s author’s page at Amazon.com.

Dr. Krannawitter has received many research fellowships throughout his career, including an H.B. Earhart Fellowship (which puts him in the company of other Earhart Fellows such as Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Larry Arnn, and Ed Feulner).

He was a Winston Churchill Society Fellow, a Henry Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Richard Weaver Fellow at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the recipient of a John M. Olin Foundation Fellowship.

He is currently finishing a book, Tragedy and Triumph, telling the story of how the American Founding ignited the greatest anti-slavery movement in history. He is also writing a high school history, civics, and economics curriculum supplement, based on primary sources, tentatively titled, Waypoints: How We Came To Be Where We Are Today.