In 2020, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) postponed its annual Mary and David Nichols Great Book Conference because of the Covid pandemic. We are pleased to announce that the department of Political Science at Baylor University has stepped up to co-sponsor the postponed event. It will occur at Baylor [...]
We are pleased to announce that The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) undergraduate fellows have released the first edition of the student publication for the fall semester. The publication is devoted to the promotion of “free thought and discourse.” Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows, Volume IX, [...]
David Frisk, resident fellow of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), is having a busy September. Using Zoom, he is teaching two courses to a national audience: one on “John Adams,” which began on September 7, and one on “The Cold War and Its Warriors,” which began on September [...]
“The United States Constitution,” observed Richard Epstein, one of the most cited legal scholars of his generation, “must, on any neutral evaluation, count as the greatest triumph of political statecraft in the history of the World.” To commemorate this great triumph, the Constitution’s framing and signing, Congress passed legislation in 2004 that set aside [...]
Carl B. Menges, the driving force behind the creation of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), passed away at his home in East Hampton, New York, on Wednesday September 8. “More than two decades ago,” observed AHI President Robert Paquette, “the idea of a center, inspired by the remarkable [...]
Gloria Greenfield created Doc Emet Productions, a not-for-profit corporation, in 2008 to produce “hard-hitting feature documentary films that promote the values of freedom and democracy, and contribute to the strengthening of Jewish identity and nationhood.” In 2020 she established the series Deep Dives, which consists of commissioned blogs by prominent scholars and public intellectuals who [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) family continues to spread its mission not only throughout the United States but abroad, as Senior Fellow Juliana Geran Pilon and Advisory Board Member Roger Pilon lecture through the auspices of the like-minded Common Sense Society (CSS), an international network that promotes liberty, prosperity, [...]
On Sunday, September 19 at 4:00 p.m., The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) will host an open house and book signing in honor of resident fellow Mary Grabar. In September, Regnery, a company that specializes in publishing books intended to spark lively debate about major national issues, will release Dr. [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Joseph Fornieri, Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, will deliver the 14th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence. The lecture will take place on Constitution Day, September 17, in RIT’s Carlson Auditorium, Room 1125, at [...]
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 & [...]
