Dr. Thomas L. Krannawitter is the founding president of Waypoints—a teaching system for high schools based on primary source documents and key ideas of liberty—and proprietor of the Substack Zetetic Questions.
He sits on the Mackinac Center’s Board of Scholars, the Scholarly Advisory Board at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and he is a member of the National Association of Scholars.
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, Hillsdale College, Ashland University, and George Mason University.
He was formerly Vice President at The Claremont Institute, where he helped launch The Claremont Review of Books in 2001.
He’s been one of the principal instructors for the Leadership Program of the Rockies for over twenty years, where he directs the Defenders of the Declaration of Independence program, and he frequently advises businesses and charitable organizations on communications, employee culture development, branding, and fundraising.
He is currently teaching the Elite Leadership Program within J.R. Butler, Inc, one of the nation’s top 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.
Currently, Dr. Krannawitter is finishing a civic primer titled, Tragedy & Triumph: The American Founding and the Greatest Anti-Slavery Movement in History.
Dr. Krannawitter has received many research fellowships throughout his career, including the 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.
Dr. Krannawitter grew up in Hays, Kansas, where he wrenched on cars in his father’s full service Phillips 66 gas station. He can be tempted occasionally with a cigar or a peaty Scotch, or both. He is married and he has three children. He is a romantic about baseball, though most people think he roots for the wrong team.
It’s not unusual for him to arrive at professional events with fur from his English Cream Golden Retrievers adorning his suit: When the choice is between staying tidy and smooching his dogs, he smooches the dogs.
You may also like the following events from Constitution Week:
- Next month, 15th September, 11:00 am, 14th Annual US Constitution Week Celebration in Grand Lake, Colorado in Grand Lake
- Next month, 15th September, 05:00 pm, Professor Rob Natelson Speaker at Grand Lake US Constitution Week in Grand Lake
- Next month, 16th September, 12:00 pm, Guidelines, Advice & Discussion to Become a Focused Devout Citizen, John Brackney, JD in Grand Lake
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