On 17 September, Constitution Day, the AHI will celebrate its first anniversary by inaugurating the David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence. Over the past few months, friends and fellows of the AHI have traveled to various parts of country to meet with supporters. […]
On 10 April, the AHI launched its inaugural fundraising event at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York. John Stauffer, Professor of English, American Literature, and Language at Harvard University, provided the keynote address that preceded an innovative two-day colloquium on the meaning of freedom. The success of the AHI’s inaugural [...]
Long before the arrival of Milton Friedman, the founders of this country recognized an inextricable connection between liberty and property. They rooted their manly independence in the private ownership of landed property, which they defended as a blessed natural right. […]
In November 2005, the administration of Hamilton College invited a celebrate radical–then in the literature department at Duke University–to speak “Of Neoconservatism and Black Intellectuals.” Hamilton students and faculty packed the chapel to listen. […]
The Edmund Burke Association will hold its inaugural meeting at the Alexander Hamilton Institute on Thursday evening, 7 February. […]
Samuel Johnson, one of Great Britain’s most distinguished men of letters, said of Edmund Burke, “You could not stand five minutes with that man beneath a shed while it rained, but you must be convinced you had been standing with the greatest man you had ever yet seen.” […]
