Dr. Brian Anderson, Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and editor of City Journal, will speak on Bertrand de Jouvenel's political thought on 18 October at 5 pm in the Banquet Room of the Alexander Hamilton Institute. He will speak at a catered dinner to a select group of Hamilton College undergraduates, who are participating [...]
Robert Bluey, Director, Center for Media and Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation, will speak on the Heritage Foundation at a Leadership Luncheon on noon Monday, 17 October, in the Banquet Room of the Alexander Hamilton Institute. Mr. Bluey grew up in upstate New York. He graduated from Ithaca College, and was editor of its award-winning [...]
On Sunday evening, 2 October, Marc Elias, Firmwide Chair at Perkins Coie law firm in Washington D.C., spoke before a large audience on the Hamilton College campus about campaign finance and the election of 2012. Mr. Elias, a 1990 graduate of Hamilton College with a J.D. from Duke University, ranks as one of the most influential political lawyers in [...]
Kevin Honeycutt, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, inaugurated a special series on the French intellectual Bertrand de Jouvenel, one of the most important anti-totalitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. Professor Honeycutt completed a dissertation on Jouvenel at Emory University. Over dinner at the AHI on 21 September, Professor Honeycutt conversed with [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute’s Christopher Dawson Society for the Study of Faith and Reason will hold its inaugural meeting for the 2011-2012 academic year on Monday, 26 September at 7 PM in the Burke Library of Hamilton College. AHI co-founder Douglas Ambrose will lead a special reading group that will meet monthly to discuss C. [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute holds annually as the piece de resistance of its thematic programming a major colloquium, named after Carl B. Menges, a businessman and philanthropist who has been a stalwart supporter of the AHI since its inception. Students from various colleges and universities participate in the colloquium, and, indeed, are required to perform [...]
On Saturday morning, 24 September, John Giardino, co-founder of the New York Policy Forum, spoke before a large audience of students, parents, and CNY citizens about the economic prospects of Upstate New York. Giardino chronicled the rise and decline of Upstate cities and sketched a program of revival, including a redirection of economic development programs [...]
James Piereson, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and President of the William E. Simon Foundation will be honored on September 19 by the Alexander Hamilton Institute during the dinner that precedes its annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence. During the summer, the AHI renovated a second-floor room in its headquarters into office space. The room will [...]
Dr. Erik Filipiak, the first recipient of the AHI's Theodore J. Eismeier Fellowship in Political Science, will lead a discussion of banking regulation and reform on Friday, 23 September, at 4PM in the main dining room of the AHI. The meeting is open to the public; refreshments will be served. Attendants are encouraged to read [...]
Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987) ranks as one of the most important--and understudied--political thinkers of the twentieth century. In an age of specialization, the breadth of genius can bring neglect. A French intellectual who was one of the charter members of the Mont Pelerin society, Jouvenel possessed a staggering range of erudition. His magnum opus consists [...]
