AHI’s Juliana Pilon Publishes on Black Educators and the Great Books
In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, the Marxists behind the Black Lives Matter movement went on the prod with in-your-face identity politics and extortionate demands. Before the dust was settled, the leaders of the organization reaped a windfall of donations from kowtowed Fortune 500 companies, a sizeable amount of which ultimately disappeared. [...]
Timothy Burns Delivers 16th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture
Timothy W. Burns, Professor of Political Science at Baylor University delivers the 16th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence on Constitution Day on September 17. The 2023 annual lecture is entitled “Two Visions of a Constitution: Adams and Publius.” https://youtu.be/hiIOEEjDIks
AHI’s Mary Grabar Examines the Plague of Plagiarism
In Poor Richard’s Almanack (1738), Benjamin Franklin offered this aphorism about plagiarism: “There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.” Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), exposes the counterfeiters. In the September 5th issue of Gloria Greenfield’s online journal for Doc Emet [...]
Timothy Burns to Deliver 16th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Timothy W. Burns, Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, will deliver the 16th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence on Constitution Day, September 17. The lecture, “Two Visions of a Constitution: Adams and Publius,” will [...]
AHI Offers Two New Courses for Fall Semester
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that it will offer two courses for the fall semester, 2023. All AHI courses are free and open to the public. Course #1: Dr. David Frisk will lead both a Zoom and in-person course, “Reading the Federalist Papers.” Course [...]
AHI Senior Fellow Mary Nichols Publishes on Aristotle
Mary P. Nichols, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), is a specialist in the Great Books. Indeed, AHI recently honored her and her husband David, both retired professors of political science at Baylor University, with an annual Great Books conference in their name. Mary has published a learned [...]
Vice-President Kamala Harris Earns AHI’s Mary Grabar’s Outrage
Not only does Kamala Harris, Vice-President of the United States, specialize in producing word salads from scratch, she makes rancid jam from low-hanging fruit as well. At a recent speech at Jacksonville, Florida, Harris targeted the state’s African American history curriculum, meaning to diminish Presidential-aspirant Governor Ron DeSantis in the process. Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, [...]
AHI’s Juliana Pilon Explicates the American Creed
Favorable reviews for Juliana Pilon’s book An Idea Betrayed: Jews, Liberalism, and the American Left (2023) keep on coming in including an incisive analysis by the political theorist David Lewis Schaefer published in the online journal Law & Liberty, a publication of Liberty Fund. But Dr. Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of [...]
AHI Academic Adviser Peter Coclanis Asks Questions about Climate Change
Peter Coclanis serves as an academic adviser to the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). In “Food for Thought about Climate Change” in the July 18th issue of The American Conservative, Dr. Coclanis, a leading economic historian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, beams wisdom for young people concerned [...]