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AHI Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
AHI Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
September 11, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
ZOOM Course: The Alexander Hamilton Institute, 21 W Park Row, Clinton, NY
About one-quarter of the 85 essays in The Federalist—generally, the ones most relevant to America’s current governmental and political difficulties—will be assigned. In addition, class members will read parts of several major books and essays that discuss The Federalist from various perspectives—making them familiar with various ways in which this honored classic of political theory has been interpreted (or “read”) and evaluated. About 25 pages total will be assigned per week. Dr. Frisk will give assistance in fully understanding the 18th-century prose with its sometimes-unfamiliar vocabulary—and the 1787-1788 debate over ratification of the proposed Constitution to which The Federalist was addressed.
Dr. Frisk, a Resident Fellow at AHI, has taught continuing education courses in history and political science here since 2013. He is a prize-winning journalist and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University.
“With the COVID years now behind us,” said Dr. Frisk, “we can comfortably welcome the community back to our beautiful historic building for weekly classes. We hope to see many familiar faces and many new ones.”
“The course will introduce or reintroduce people to The Federalist in manageable amounts,” Frisk added, “while providing ample food for thought from a variety of political scientists and historians about the great issues they deal with. Class members should feel free to challenge or question points and predictions in The Federalist, just as these scholars sometimes have.”
For additional information or to enroll, please contact Dr. Frisk (dfrisk@theahi.org, 202-999-5751 cell). Due to the classes’ popularity, advance signup is strongly encouraged.
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Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter Meeting
Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter Meeting
September 12, 2023 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Presidential Room, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization
The Oneida Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution will hold a chapter meeting The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, 21 West Park Row, Clinton, NY..
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Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
September 13, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In-Person Course: Presidential Room, The Alexander Hamilton Institute, 21 W Park Row, Clinton, NY
About one-quarter of the 85 essays in The Federalist—generally, the ones most relevant to America’s current governmental and political difficulties—will be assigned. In addition, class members will read parts of several major books and essays that discuss The Federalist from various perspectives—making them familiar with various ways in which this honored classic of political theory has been interpreted (or “read”) and evaluated. About 25 pages total will be assigned per week. Dr. Frisk will give assistance in fully understanding the 18th-century prose with its sometimes-unfamiliar vocabulary—and the 1787-1788 debate over ratification of the proposed Constitution to which The Federalist was addressed.
Dr. Frisk, a Resident Fellow at AHI, has taught continuing education courses in history and political science here since 2013. He is a prize-winning journalist and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University.
“With the COVID years now behind us,” said Dr. Frisk, “we can comfortably welcome the community back to our beautiful historic building for weekly classes. We hope to see many familiar faces and many new ones.”
“The course will introduce or reintroduce people to The Federalist in manageable amounts,” Frisk added, “while providing ample food for thought from a variety of political scientists and historians about the great issues they deal with. Class members should feel free to challenge or question points and predictions in The Federalist, just as these scholars sometimes have.”
For additional information or to enroll, please contact Dr. Frisk (dfrisk@theahi.org, 202-999-5751 cell). Due to the classes’ popularity, advance signup is strongly encouraged.
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The David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence
The David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence
September 17, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Zoom Meeting: The Alexander Hamilton Institute, 21 W Park Row, Clinton, NY
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of WesternCivilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Timothy W. Burns, Professor ofPolitical Science and Graduate Program Director at Baylor University, willdeliver the 16th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in ConstitutionalJurisprudence on Constitution Day, September 17. The lecture, “Two Visions of A Constitution:Adams and Publius,” will be available on our website at 7:00 p.m.
Dr. Burns describes his talk thus: “Recent debates over theAmerican Constitution center on the intention of the founders with regard toclass and race. This talk unearths a neglected aspect of these matters in thedebates over the proposed constitution. It shows how and why John Adams (in hisConstitutions of the United States) insisted that the American stateconstitutions correctly represented three “permanent” natural classes(democrats, aristocrats, monarchists) in their three branches of government. Onthe basis of Adams’ arguments, many Anti-Federalists came to view theconstitution proposed in 1787 as maintaining a class-based system favoring anaristocratic class, including the slave owners of the American South. Theyargued against it, in favor of a constitution that would favor an allegedlyvirtuous, democratic yeoman class. The authors of The Federalist proposeda radically different understanding of the new Constitution. They presented thethree branches of government as not at all class based, but as based onspecific institutional functions. They saw economic classes as both fluid andcapable of competing coalitions of interests. And they saw the potential formodern commerce to abolish classes and the many problematic passions that comewith them, in a modern liberal, tolerant regime. The Federalists won.”
Dr. Burns, a senior fellow of AHI, taught at Hiram College,Texas State, Boston College, and Skidmore College before coming to BaylorUniversity in 2013. For the 2022-23 academic year, he wasthe John and Daria BarryVisiting Research Scholar at Princeton University. His most recent bookis Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology,and Liberal Education (2021).
His other publications include Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom, whichwas awarded CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award, 2014; co-author (withThomas L. Pangle, The Key Texts of Political Philosophy: An Introduction (2014); editor of Brill’sCompanion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought (2015);co-editor (with Peter Lawler) of The Future of Liberal Education (2014);co-editor (with Bryan-Paul Frost) of Philosophy, History, and Tyranny:Re-examining the Debate Between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève (2016);editor of Recovering Reason: Essays inHonor of Thomas L. Pangle (2010);and editor of After History? FrancisFukuyama and his Critics (1994). Hehas published in The American Political Science Review, The Journal ofPolitics, Interpretation, The Review of Politics, The Review of Metaphysics,Perspectives on Political Science, Polis, Logos, The Political ScienceReviewer, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, and First Things. He has written onHomer, Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon, Aristophanes, Dionysius of Halicarnassus,St. Augustine, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Turgot and the Federalists, G.K.Chesterton, John Courtney Murry, Strauss, Putnam, modern liberal republicantheory, and liberal education. He co-edits (with Thomas L. Pangle) PalgraveMacMillan’s “Recovering Political Philosophy” series, and he is editor-in-chiefof Interpretation: A Journal of PoliticalPhilosophy.
The annual lecture honors Judge David Aldrich Nelson(1932-2010), a charter member of AHI’s board of directors. Judge Nelson wasgraduated from Hamilton College, 1954, valedictorian of his class. He attendedHarvard Law School and read law as a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University,in England. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the United States Court ofAppeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1985. Judge Nelson took senior status in 1999but continued to hear cases until he closed his chambers in 2006.
As a result of a gift from the family of Judge Nelson, AHI’streasure room now houses some of his books and Hamilton College memorabilia.
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AHI Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
AHI Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
September 18, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
ZOOM Course: The Alexander Hamilton Institute, 21 W Park Row, Clinton, NY
About one-quarter of the 85 essays in The Federalist—generally, the ones most relevant to America’s current governmental and political difficulties—will be assigned. In addition, class members will read parts of several major books and essays that discuss The Federalist from various perspectives—making them familiar with various ways in which this honored classic of political theory has been interpreted (or “read”) and evaluated. About 25 pages total will be assigned per week. Dr. Frisk will give assistance in fully understanding the 18th-century prose with its sometimes-unfamiliar vocabulary—and the 1787-1788 debate over ratification of the proposed Constitution to which The Federalist was addressed.
Dr. Frisk, a Resident Fellow at AHI, has taught continuing education courses in history and political science here since 2013. He is a prize-winning journalist and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University.
“With the COVID years now behind us,” said Dr. Frisk, “we can comfortably welcome the community back to our beautiful historic building for weekly classes. We hope to see many familiar faces and many new ones.”
“The course will introduce or reintroduce people to The Federalist in manageable amounts,” Frisk added, “while providing ample food for thought from a variety of political scientists and historians about the great issues they deal with. Class members should feel free to challenge or question points and predictions in The Federalist, just as these scholars sometimes have.”
For additional information or to enroll, please contact Dr. Frisk (dfrisk@theahi.org, 202-999-5751 cell). Due to the classes’ popularity, advance signup is strongly encouraged.
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Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
September 20, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In-Person Course: Presidential Room, The Alexander Hamilton Institute, 21 W Park Row, Clinton, NY
About one-quarter of the 85 essays in The Federalist—generally, the ones most relevant to America’s current governmental and political difficulties—will be assigned. In addition, class members will read parts of several major books and essays that discuss The Federalist from various perspectives—making them familiar with various ways in which this honored classic of political theory has been interpreted (or “read”) and evaluated. About 25 pages total will be assigned per week. Dr. Frisk will give assistance in fully understanding the 18th-century prose with its sometimes-unfamiliar vocabulary—and the 1787-1788 debate over ratification of the proposed Constitution to which The Federalist was addressed.
Dr. Frisk, a Resident Fellow at AHI, has taught continuing education courses in history and political science here since 2013. He is a prize-winning journalist and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University.
“With the COVID years now behind us,” said Dr. Frisk, “we can comfortably welcome the community back to our beautiful historic building for weekly classes. We hope to see many familiar faces and many new ones.”
“The course will introduce or reintroduce people to The Federalist in manageable amounts,” Frisk added, “while providing ample food for thought from a variety of political scientists and historians about the great issues they deal with. Class members should feel free to challenge or question points and predictions in The Federalist, just as these scholars sometimes have.”
For additional information or to enroll, please contact Dr. Frisk (dfrisk@theahi.org, 202-999-5751 cell). Due to the classes’ popularity, advance signup is strongly encouraged.
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AHI Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
AHI Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
September 25, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
ZOOM Course: The Alexander Hamilton Institute, 21 W Park Row, Clinton, NY
About one-quarter of the 85 essays in The Federalist—generally, the ones most relevant to America’s current governmental and political difficulties—will be assigned. In addition, class members will read parts of several major books and essays that discuss The Federalist from various perspectives—making them familiar with various ways in which this honored classic of political theory has been interpreted (or “read”) and evaluated. About 25 pages total will be assigned per week. Dr. Frisk will give assistance in fully understanding the 18th-century prose with its sometimes-unfamiliar vocabulary—and the 1787-1788 debate over ratification of the proposed Constitution to which The Federalist was addressed.
Dr. Frisk, a Resident Fellow at AHI, has taught continuing education courses in history and political science here since 2013. He is a prize-winning journalist and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University.
“With the COVID years now behind us,” said Dr. Frisk, “we can comfortably welcome the community back to our beautiful historic building for weekly classes. We hope to see many familiar faces and many new ones.”
“The course will introduce or reintroduce people to The Federalist in manageable amounts,” Frisk added, “while providing ample food for thought from a variety of political scientists and historians about the great issues they deal with. Class members should feel free to challenge or question points and predictions in The Federalist, just as these scholars sometimes have.”
For additional information or to enroll, please contact Dr. Frisk (dfrisk@theahi.org, 202-999-5751 cell). Due to the classes’ popularity, advance signup is strongly encouraged.
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Continuing Education Course: "Freedom's Writers: Orwell and Koestler"
Continuing Education Course: "Freedom's Writers: Orwell and Koestler"
September 26, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
ZOOM Course: The Alexander Hamilton Institute, 21 W Park Row, Clinton, NY 13323
This course takes you on a tour of two of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. The Western intelligentsia aided and abetted the rise of fascism and communism in the 20th century. As the liberal democracies were being buffeted by these two ideologies, only one of them, Fascism, had a bad reputation among the intelligentsia. Progressives, seeking a cure for economic depression and war, were prone to look past communism’s violence and suppression of free thought. An editor of the progressive New Republic magazine, for example, berated himself years later for being “unforgivably slow to realize what was happening” in Stalin’s Russia.
George Orwell and Arthur Koestler were not slow. Each had thrown himself into the fight against fascism in the 1930s. The Englishman Orwell went to Spain to join a Trotskyist militia that took the field against Francisco Franco. The Hungarian-born Koestler was in the Spanish Civil War, too. He was a Comintern agent in Madrid. These experiences fueled their respective writings, which dealt strong blows against totalitarianism of the left and right in real time.
The first six weeks of the course will cover essays on language, politics, and the arts by George Orwell, one essay per session. After that we will read and discuss one of the great political novels, Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940), in four sessions. Each session of this 10-week course will be an hour long.
Participants will meet via Zoom for this 10-week course, on Tuesday nights from 7 to 8 p.m. Eastern time. The first session will be on September 26 and the final session on November 21.
Lauren Weiner’s writing life has taken her to jobs as an editor, reporter, Capitol Hill staffer, and Pentagon speechwriter. She has written literary reviews as well, and these have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, theFederalist.com, the Weekly Standard, AmericanPurpose.com, the New Criterion, the Washington Times, and the Baltimore Sun.
For additional information, contact Lauren Weiner lweiner6@gmail.com
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Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
Continuing Education Course: "Reading the Federalist Papers"
September 27, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In-Person Course: Presidential Room, The Alexander Hamilton Institute, 21 W Park Row, Clinton, NY
About one-quarter of the 85 essays in The Federalist—generally, the ones most relevant to America’s current governmental and political difficulties—will be assigned. In addition, class members will read parts of several major books and essays that discuss The Federalist from various perspectives—making them familiar with various ways in which this honored classic of political theory has been interpreted (or “read”) and evaluated. About 25 pages total will be assigned per week. Dr. Frisk will give assistance in fully understanding the 18th-century prose with its sometimes-unfamiliar vocabulary—and the 1787-1788 debate over ratification of the proposed Constitution to which The Federalist was addressed.
Dr. Frisk, a Resident Fellow at AHI, has taught continuing education courses in history and political science here since 2013. He is a prize-winning journalist and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University.
“With the COVID years now behind us,” said Dr. Frisk, “we can comfortably welcome the community back to our beautiful historic building for weekly classes. We hope to see many familiar faces and many new ones.”
“The course will introduce or reintroduce people to The Federalist in manageable amounts,” Frisk added, “while providing ample food for thought from a variety of political scientists and historians about the great issues they deal with. Class members should feel free to challenge or question points and predictions in The Federalist, just as these scholars sometimes have.”
For additional information or to enroll, please contact Dr. Frisk (dfrisk@theahi.org, 202-999-5751 cell). Due to the classes’ popularity, advance signup is strongly encouraged.
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