Bruce Thornton (classicist)

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Bruce S. Thornton (born August 2, 1953) is an American classicist at California State University, Fresno, and research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.[1]

Biography

Thornton received a

Comparative Literature in 1983. He had studied Greek, Latin, and English literature for his doctorate.[2]

Currently Thornton is research fellow and W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow (2009–2010 and 2010–2011) at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Thornton has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He also appeared on ABC's Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, and is a contributor to the conservative website CaliforniaRepublic.org.[2]

Thornton lives in

Fresno with his wife and two sons.[2]

Work

History

Thornton has described his opinions as opposed to the dominant, mainstream historical tradition about the

Judaeo-Christian spiritual philosophies resulted in the creation of Western civilization.[3]

Europe

Thornton believes that the declining belief in interpersonal ideals such as

Eurabia genre".[4][5][6]

Publications

Thornton has published several well-received books.[2]

  • Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality (Westview Press, 1997)
  • Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge (ISI Books, 1999)
  • Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization (Encounter Books, 2000)
  • Humanities Handbook (Prentice-Hall, 2000)
  • Bonfire of the Humanities. Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age, with John Heath and Victor Davis Hanson (ISI Books, 2001)
  • Searching for Joaquin: Myth and History in California (Encounter Books, 2003)
  • Decline and Fall: Europe's Slow Motion Suicide (Encounter Books, 2008)
  • The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America (Encounter Books, 2011)
    ISBN 1-59403-519-9
  • Democracy's Dangers and Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority From the Greeks to Obama (Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, 2014).[7]

Thornton has written for numerous publications including

City Journal,[8] and FrontPage Magazine.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Hoover Institution Research Fellow: Biography". Hoover Institution. Archived from the original on 2014-04-19. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  2. ^ a b c d e Biography Archived August 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. California State University, Fresno: Bruce Thornton's page at Fresno State Archived 2014-10-31 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed October 31, 2014.
  3. ^ a b Peter Robinson interviews Fresno State Classicist Bruce Thornton about his new book Decline and Fall: Europe's Slow Suicide Archived October 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Hoover Institution: Uncommon Knowledge. Filmed on March 6, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2009.
  4. ^ "Eurabian Follies". Foreign Policy. 4 January 2010.
  5. ISBN 9781839761744
    .
  6. ISBN 9781000801446
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  7. ^ Hoover Institution: Democracy's Dangers and Discontents
  8. City Journal. Archived from the original
    on October 1, 2009. Retrieved August 19, 2009.
  9. ^ Ferretti, Niram (June 11, 2017). "The weakness of the West: An interview with Bruce Thornton". L'informale.

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