In 2020, Harlan Calkins, a charter member of AHI’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 Fame, he not only [...]
In 2020, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) established the James Piereson Summer Internship. Dr. Piereson, a prominent public intellectual, has played a vital role in helping to erect the scaffolding of what AHI’s founders hoped would be an enduring edifice. Recipients of the Piereson Internship must demonstrate both [...]
The AHI Summer Conference on "Patriotism Ancient and Modern," recently took place June 11-13 at the Treasure Valley Classical Academy in Fruitland, Idaho. Distinguished scholars Scott Yenor of Boise State University, David Azerrad of Hillsdale College, Arthur Milikh of the Claremont Institute Center for the American Way of Life, and Timothy Burns of Baylor [...]
Dr. Timothy K. Minella Timothy Minella holds the position of Lecturer in the Lewis Honors College at the University of Kentucky. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in physics and government from Hamilton College in 2009 and was one of the first undergraduates to be nurtured by The Alexander Hamilton [...]
Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), teaches sociology at Bucknell University. He has openly criticized the state of his own discipline, its politicization and declining standards. In his latest book, Toward a Biosocial Science Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life (Routledge 2021), he performs [...]
In August 2019, the New York Times introduced the 1619 Project, an audacious attempt at fundamentally rewriting American history through the distorting prism of Critical Race Theory. Neither Nikole Hannah-Jones, the chief architect of the project, nor the majority of the more than thirty contributors to the 100-page special issue, can lay any claim [...]
Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), tackles Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project in an essay published on June 10 in The Federalist, an online journal that covers American politics and culture. In “Axing Critical Race Theory Allows for Teaching Honest History About The [...]
Alexander Riley, the most recent addition to the list of senior fellows of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has had a busy month. On 3 June, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute published Dr. Riley’s “Who Knew Émile Durkheim Was a Conservative on Sex and Marriage?” [...]
The University of North Georgia (UNG) has announced that four of their scholars have been selected to attend the AHI's Washington Program on National Security (WAPONS) June 16-30 in Washington, D.C. UNG alumnus Jacob Malimban and current students Taylor Mullikin, Ella Reid and Thomas Vella are four of 15 students selected. The AHI WAPONS program, [...]
Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) has published an article on “The Google Letter.” Pilon discusses a group called Jewish Diaspora in Tech (JDT) and their recent letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, accusing Google of not being sufficiently anti-Israeli. Pilon concludes "These deprogrammed JDT [...]
