The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that William Boudreau from Wilton, Connecticut, has received the 2014 Carl B. Menges Award. Mr. Boudreau, who majored in history at Hamilton College, accepted a commission upon graduation in 2014 as Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine [...]
Daniel Mahoney, Senior Fellow, Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has recently published The Other Solzhenitsyn. Mahoney, co-editor of The Solzhenitsyn Reader, offers in this discussion a tremendous introduction to the Russian dissident writer’s oeuvre and a rebuttal to his many critics. Daniel Jay Mahoney holds the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Dr. James Stoner will deliver the Government Department’s annual Alexander Hamilton Lecture in Constitutional Studies entitled, “The Written Constitution and the Unwritten Tradition of Common Law," Tuesday, September 16 at 5:30 p.m. in the Pohndorff room of Scribner Library, at Skidmore College. The [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) will sponsor a reading group; open to the public, during the fall semester on Leo Strauss, one of the greatest scholars of political philosophy. The reading group will meet every two weeks, from Thursday, September 11 through Thursday, November 20, from 7:00 p.m. to [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and the Daniel Webster Center at Dartmouth College will join forces to sponsor the conference, "Tyranny and Totalitarianism: Past, Present, and Future on September 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. , 1 Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The conference [...]
Dr. David Frisk, the recipient of the AHI’s Seventh Annual Bakwin Award recently completed his fellowship and will be remaining as a Resident Fellow for the 2014-15 academic year. Dr. Frisk received his Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University in 2009 with specialties in American politics and political philosophy. He is also a [...]
Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Academic Adviser Jay Sekulow published an opinion piece and was recently interviewed on Fox News about the IRS scandal. Jay Sekulow is Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which focuses on constitutional law.
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) congratulates Senior Fellow Dr. Lee Cheek on his new appointment as Dean of Social Sciences at East Georgia State College. Cheek, who formerly served as Chair of the Division of Social Sciences, assumed his new duties in early August as part of a reorganization. [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) congratulates Thomas Cheeseman, former leader of the AHI’s Undergraduate Fellow’s Program, for receiving an honorable mention in the Hayek Essay competition sponsored by the prestigious Mont Pelerin Society. This year’s global competition, which had more than 1000 entries and was open to persons thirty-five [...]
