Dean Ball, a member of the Alexander Hamilton Institute board of directors and the senior program manager at the Hoover Institution’s State and Local Governance Initiative, has spent a decade studying and working on public policy. He recently started writing “Hyperdimensional,” an online newsletter on the Substack platform that will analyze “emerging technology, public policy, [...]
The American Historical Association defines plagiarism “as the appropriation of ‘the exact wording of another author without attribution,’ and the borrowing of ‘distinctive and significant research findings or interpretations’ without proper citation.” Claudine Gay resigned the presidency of Harvard University recently in large part when her very limited scholarly corpus came under scrutiny for the [...]
Dean Ball, a member of the board of directors of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), recently launched on Substack, an online platform, Hyperdimensional. It will focus on emerging technology and the future of governance. A passion for technology and its uses motivated him to introduce this exciting new initiative. “My [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that it will offer two courses for the spring semester, 2024. All AHI courses are free and open to the public. Course #1: Dr. David Frisk will lead both a Zoom and in-person course, “An Introduction to Conservative Thought.” [...]
Cormac McCarthy, one of America’s greatest novelists, died in 2023. His corpus of twelve novels includes No Country for Old Men (2005), which was adapted to critical acclaim as a film two years later. Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), reread the novel along with [...]
Hamilton College, like most institutions of higher learning, has their students sign an honor code. It requires that students refrain from academic dishonesty. The code defines plagiarism as “[f]ailure to acknowledge ideas, phrases, data, music, images, or other intellectual property gained from a preexisting body of work.” In October 2002, the president of Hamilton [...]
Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, traveled to France last fall at the invitation of the Institut des Sciences Sociales, Économiques et Politiques (ISSEP). His itinerary took him to Paris and the inland municipality of Lyon, France’s third largest city. In the fall, 2023, issue of [...]
On December 5th, three presidents of prestigious Ivy League schools— Claudine Gay of Harvard University, Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology— traveled to Washington to testify at the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on the plague of antisemitism sweeping their campuses. Chairwoman [...]
For many historians, Franklin Delano Roosevelt continues to bask in praise as the savior of capitalism during the Great Depression. At a time when protest and violence threatened to undermine the political system, President Roosevelt allegedly stood tall in pushing pragmatic reforms that were meant to coopt progressive and radical leaders poised to undertake revolutionary [...]
From the President’s Desk 4 December 2023 Message from The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Dear Friends of AHI: AHI solicits your support in time of need. AHI had weathered the Covid storm successfully, but inflation and the overall condition of the economy has bedeviled us. As prices soar, [...]
