In two hard-hitting pieces, Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), describes today’s sociology as a sullied political swamp. The faculty do little valuable work, Dr. Riley observes, and students are blatantly propagandized. A professor of sociology at Bucknell University, he published his broadsides this month at [...]
Dean Ball, board member of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), recently offered his “early thoughts” on the First Amendment status of artificial intelligence from recent Supreme Court Decisions. A research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, Mr. Ball studies AI and writes on it frequently. The question wasn’t [...]
Joe Simonson, an “alumnus” of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) continues his coverage of the illegal immigration fiasco. Mr. Simonson reported this week in the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration is flying previously deported people from Cameroon, whose asylum claims were found invalid, back into the [...]
Dean Ball, a board member of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and frequent writer on recent technology including artificial intelligence, commented recently on the growing interest in reindustrialization. America’s strengths in high tech, Mr. Ball stresses, are important to its success. Among some policymakers and their staffs, as well [...]
Regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), warns Dean Ball, a board member of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), could easily be distorted by special interests such as public employees and professions affected by major developments in it. A frequent writer on AI from his position as a research fellow at [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) has awarded Henry Tyler, an undergraduate from Hamilton College, the Fifth Annual James Piereson fellowship. Mr. Tyler received the $3,000 fellowship to work on a joint international relations project this summer with AHI’s Dr. David Frisk. Mr. Tyler from Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, Hamilton Class [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and the Tikvah Fund are delighted to offer a seminar series on Understanding Cognitive Warfare to take place in Washington, DC, from June 21 - August 2. The series is devoted to examining key issues necessary for understanding the history and methods of [...]
Over thirty-six attended this year’s Mary and David Nichols Great Books Conference held May 14-15 in Waco, Texas. The annual conference is sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). In its 15th year, the purpose of the conference is to facilitate conversations among Baylor’s graduate students (and now former [...]
Dean Ball, member of the board of directors of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and a frequent writer on artificial intelligence, recommends a book on the current state of biology as a partial antidote to some of the nightmare scenarios involving AI. In his online newsletter Hyperdimensional, Mr. Ball [...]
President Biden’s new executive order to limit illegal crossings on the southern border is full of exemptions for people who claim asylum, Joe Simonson reports in his latest investigative story for the Washington Free Beacon. An “alumnus” of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and 2015 graduate of Hamilton [...]
