In 2020, Harlan Calkins, a charter member of The Alexander Hamilton Institute’s board of directors, moved into emeritus status. At the last board meeting of that year, AHI President Robert Paquette announced the creation of a summer fellowship to honor Mr. Calkins’ many contributions to AHI. An inductee into the Rochester Business Hall of [...]
In “The Never-Ending ‘1619 Riots,’’’ Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, predicts there are more race riots coming to the United States. Daniel Penny’s case will not exhaust the list, and it, according to Dr. Grabar, has ample precedent. For those who have not been following [...]
The deadline for applications to the AHI's acclaimed WAPONS in Washington, DC has been extended to May 29, 2023. Application materials should be sent to either AHI Senior Fellow Dr. Juliana Pilon (juliana.geran.pilon@gmail.com), or AHI President Robert Paquette (bob@theahi.org). There is no electronic application process. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: 1. The most recent transcript of courses and [...]
The incarnation of Spelman College began in the post-reconstruction South when two white women from Massachusetts implemented a vision of liberal arts education for black women in Atlanta, Georgia. John D. Rockefeller, attracted to the vision, financed it. The name changed from the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in 1881, to Spelman Seminary (after Laura Spelman [...]
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth published a book entitled It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom (2022). Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, finds it disappointing. Indeed, Dr. Riley, Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University, describes Bérubé and Ruth’s study as “a [...]
This year's conference was the 14th sponsored by AHI and the fourth conference since it moved from Clinton, NY to Waco, Texas. Thirty-one participants were in attendance for the two-day event. Discussions included selections from James Wilson’s Lectures on the Law, Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution, and Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of [...]
Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, has recently written a book An Idea Betrayed: Jews, Liberalism, and the American Left in which she explores the paradox of liberalism. Dr. Pilon continues to explore this theme in “Classical, New, or Conservative Liberalism?” in the April 20 issue of [...]
Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has criticized the University of California Berkeley for a campaign to “un-name” buildings on campus. Dr. Grabar’s remarks were quoted in an article in The College Fix entitled “UC Berkeley Strips Another Name Off Building but Activists Want More.” [...]
The Mary and David Nichols Annual Conference on the Great Books will take place in Waco, Texas, on Friday and Saturday, April 14-15, 2023. This year’s discussion will center on "The Moral Foundations of Modern Democracy." The conference is co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science at Baylor University and The Alexander Hamilton Institute [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is grateful to the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation (DDS) for a grant to support AHI’s acclaimed Washington Program on National Security (WaPoNS). The program will be held in Washington, DC, June 21 to 30. The deadline for all applications is May 17, 2023. [...]
