In 2018, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) announced that its annual summer conference, co-sponsored with Baylor University’s Department of Political Science, would be renamed the Mary and David Nichols Annual Conference in the Great Books. In doing so, AHI honored two outstanding professors who had thrown their support [...]
Mark Bauerlein, Professor Emeritus, Department of English at Emory University, serves as senior editor at First Things, one of this country’s most influential journals of religion and of the importance of faith in public policy and political life. In April, Dr. Bauerlein invited Robert Paquette to participate in one of a series of podcasts [...]
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Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), is completing a book that puts the New York Times 1619 Project squarely in her gunsights. On 5 May, Epoch TV, part of the Epoch Media Group, a news organization “dedicated to seeking the truth through insightful and [...]
Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) has published an article on “The Origins of the Cruel Ritual of Diversity Training” for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. Riley, a professor of sociology at Bucknell University, points out that the social science that undergirds the [...]
The award-winning documentary filmmaker Gloria Greenfield, President of Doc Emet Productions, established the series “Deep Dives” in 2020. Her purpose was to invite significant scholars to probe issues critical to contemporary politics and culture. In the May issue of the monthly series, Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of [...]
On April 27, AHI President Robert Paquette moderated the National Association of Scholars webinar “Skewed History: Textbook Coverage of Early America and the New Deal.” The webinar introduced Ted Rebarber, chief executive officer of American Achievement Testing (AAT), which has embarked on a major project to [...]
Robert Paquette, President of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), will moderate the National Association of Scholars webinar "Skewed History: Textbook Coverage of Early America and the New Deal," on Tuesday, April 27, at 2:00 p.m. ET. The panelists will discuss what they recommend for better history curriculums and textbooks, [...]
Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987) ranks as one of the most important--and understudied--political thinkers of the twentieth century. Daniel Mahoney, Augustinian Boulanger Chair and Professor of Political Science, Assumption College, calls the neglect of this seminal thinker “perplexing” because Jouvenel’s writings combine erudition, literary grace, and a seemingly effortless capacity for the insightful and memorable aphorism [...]
Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows, Volume VIII, No. 10, April 16, 2021 has been published. The publication is devoted to the promotion of “free thought and discourse.”
