On July 19, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream announced that it would not renew the license of the current manufacturer and distributor of its products in Israel. According to reports, the decision to support the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS) came from the top down, from Alan Jope, the Scottish-born CEO of Ben & [...]
In 2020, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), announced that it would respond to the cancellation and postponement of programmatic activities because of the Covid pandemic by creating reading clusters, open to a national audience, using Zoom. By all reports, AHI’s experiment in remote learning proved successful. In building [...]
On July 11 residents of San Antonio de los Baños, a small Cuban city southwest of Havana, about the size of Rome, New York, rose in protest against the Communist regime that has ruled the island of Cuba for more than a half century. Hundreds of citizens marched in complaint about the oppressiveness of the [...]
Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has joined the mushrooming debate about The 1619 Project, an attempt by the New York Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones, one of the newspaper’s most controversial and race-obsessed journalists, to transform this country’s understanding of its own history. In September, [...]
David Frisk, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), was interviewed this week on WUTQ-FM’s public affairs program “Talk of the Town.” A frequent guest on the Utica, NY-based show, Dr. Frisk, a political scientist as well as an award-winning journalist, discussed the meaning of the term “socialism” and [...]
Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), recently traveled to New York City to film her appearance in “America Rewritten,” a special documentary from The Epoch Times “on how history is being falsified and how the system of government is being misrepresented.” The film features interviews by [...]
Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), teaches sociology at Bucknell University. In “Transgenderism is the Latest Woke Insult to Sports Fan,” Dr. Riley warns that “the world of professional sports, like so much else in our culture, is now essentially lost to the Revolution.” The [...]
Peter Coclanis, Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professor and Director, Global Research Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, serves The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), as an academic adviser. In the July 2, 2021 issue of The Spectator, a British weekly devoted to politics and culture, Dr. Coclanis asks, “Is [...]
“Declaration of Independence,” by Oscar de Mejo (1911-1992) The June 29 issue of the Savannah (Georgia) Morning News published an op-ed on the Declaration of Independence, co-authored by H. Lee Cheek, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). Cheek and Sean Busick, Professor of Political Science, Athens [...]
