|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thomas Woods |
| Thomas E. Woods, Jr. | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born | August 1, 1972 United States |
| Occupation | Historian, scholar |
| Spouse(s) | Heather Woods |
|
Influences
|
|
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (born August 1, 1972) is an American historian and New York Times bestselling author.1
Contents |
He holds a Bachelor's Degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. He served as a history department faculty member at Suffolk Community College in New York until 2006, and is now resident scholar and senior faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (LvMI), as well as a member of the editorial board for the institute's Journal of Libertarian Studies.2 He is also an associate scholar of the Abbeville Institute.
Woods was present at the founding of the League of the South,3 and has contributed to its newsletter.4 His past membership in the group has generated criticism,5 but Woods asserts his involvement was limited.
Woods is a convert to the Roman Catholic Church and author of The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy. He is associate editor of The Latin Mass Magazine, which advocates traditional Catholicism. His 2005 book, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, is the basis for The Catholic Church: Builder of Civilization, a thirteen-episode television series airing on EWTN in 2008. The series examines the Church's influence on law, morality, science, and scholarship.6
Woods's writing has appeared in numerous popular and scholarly periodicals, including the American Historical Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Investor's Business Daily, Modern Age, American Studies, Journal of Markets & Morality, New Oxford Review, The Freeman, Independent Review, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, AD2000, Crisis, Human Rights Review, Catholic Historical Review, and the Catholic Social Science Review. He is a contributing editor of The American Conservative.
His most popular book to date was the 2004 New York Times bestseller1 The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Regnery Publishing, 2004).
In articles he has written dealing with the political spectrum of Americans, Woods makes a sharp distinction between conservative thinkers with whom he sympathizes, and neoconservative thinkers. In articles, lectures and interviews Woods traces the intellectual and political lineage of both the older conservative, or paleoconservative, school of thought and the neoconservative school of thought. Of the latter he writes:
In June 2005 Thomas Woods gave a series of ten lectures at the Ludwig von Mises Institute entitled "The Truth About American History: An Austro-Jeffersonian Perspective" as part of a seminar devoted entirely to Woods and his own areas of interest in American history. Woods has called for a strict interpretation of the United States Constitution, or preferably, the Articles of Confederation.8
He also hosted an eight-lecture seminar covering the material in his book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, to the Auburn University Academy for Lifelong Learners, hosted by the Mises Institute.9 On 14 February 2007, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute announced that Woods' 2005 book, The Church and the Market, was the winner of the top prize in the books category of the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards.10
In August 2006, Woods coined "Woods's Law," which states that,
He applied this law in an article11 that discussed tax refund anticipation loans and efforts to halt such practices, which he argues are based on the assumption that such loans exploit the poor. Calcutta's daily, The Telegraph cited Woods's Law in reference to the potential effects of the expansion of Wal-Mart's ventures in India.12
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |