On Sunday, 5 December, the Alexander Hamilton Institute celebrated its Undergraduate Fellows at a holiday party featuring a performance by Special K, a Hamilton College chorale group. More than seventy AHI Undergraduate Fellows participate in the intellectual life of AHI. […]
Michael Rizzo, an AHI Senior Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Rochester, has won Professor of the Year Award as voted by students at the University of Rochester. The University of Rochester Students’ Association selects one professor in each academic division for the honor of Professor of the Year. [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the opening of competition for the third annual E. M. Bakwin Fellowship. Mr. Bakwin, a graduate of Hamilton College (1950) and the University of Chicago (1961), served as Chairman of the Board of MB Financial Bank in Chicago. Mr. [...]
Daniel J. Mahoney, an AHI Senior Fellow and Chairman and Professor of Political Science at Assumption College, has published an essay on Malcolm Muggeridge, “Rediscovering St. Mugg,” in the 13 October issue of The Catholic Thing. […]
AHI Senior Fellow Lee Cheek has edited and provided a new critical introduction for a few edition of Francis Graham Wilson’s A Theory of Public Opinion, to be published in early 2011 by Transaction Books at Rutgers University. […]
What caused the near collapse of Wall Street? Who created the policy of “Too big to fail”? Why was Goldman Sachs treated differently than Lehman Brothers? What explains the AIG bailout? […]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute and Colgate’s Center for Freedom & Western Civilization, directed by Robert Kraynak, sponsored the appearance Thursday evening at Colgate University of the British historian Andrew Roberts, one of the leading military historians of his generation. […]
During the 2010-2011 academic year, the AHI will explore issues of reform in higher education and what constitutes greatness in the liberal arts. The National Association of Scholars, an organization dedicated to the pursuit of intellectual freedom and to “the tradition of reasoned scholarship and civil debate in America’s colleges and universities,” has agreed to partner with [...]
The first fall semster meeting of the Christopher Dawson Society, under the leadership of Professor Douglas Ambrose, will take place at the AHI at 6 pm, Monday evening at the AHI’s headquarters, 21 West Park Row in Clinton. […]
It was with deep regret that the AHI family learned of the passing ofJudge David Aldrich Nelson. Judge Nelson stood as a stalwart supporter of the AHI from its inception. “In my relations with Judge Nelson,” observed AHI co-founder Bob Paquette, “I saw a man of not only great intelligence and perspicacity, but of great [...]
